As reported in the daily press, the Mette Frederiksen regime’s state-controlled television has just aired yet another smear campaign against Russia, portraying it as an aggressive state that, with its approximately 150 million people, intends to subjugate all of Europe—with its approximately 500 million inhabitants (which would make the Russians a minority in their own […]

🏴‍☠️ Peter Thiel's secret, invitation-only society Dialog has just been exposed through a hack. For 20 years it has met in secret, with no published guest list. The Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew found the files in the group's website code, and WIRED verified them. It names 222 people due at this year's retreat, with their phone numbers, birthdates and emergency contacts. The guest list includes US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Senator Ted Cruz, and Alexus Grynkewich, the US general commanding NATO's forces in Europe. Almost all registered with personal email addresses, keeping the event outside public-records law. Thiel co-founded the surveillance company Palantir Technologies, yet his own society leaked its members' data, including political leanings promised to stay private. The leaked agenda lists sessions including Navigating WWIII, Battlefield Technologies, and Bring Back Nuclear. One is called Build-a-Cult, moderated by the founder of a Christian prayer app. Build-a-Party, is run by a former White House national security official. The retreat runs in August at the Powerscourt Hotel Resort & Spa in Wicklow. 6 of those listed are Irish, and Irish media hasn’t named the most influential. After the leak, independent Senator Lynn Ruane said she had withdrawn. Dialog chose the country that made AI in Europe possible. Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and Google made Ireland one of Europe's largest data centre hubs. Corporation tax now makes up about a third of all tax revenue, most of it from a handful of US firms, giving big tech a hold over any government in Dublin. Anduril Industries, the Thiel-backed weapons firm, opened its first Dublin office in 2025 by buying the Irish military-tech company Klas, just before Ireland began its first maritime security strategy. From 1 July Ireland chairs the EU Council for 6 months, setting the agenda and steering Europe's energy and digital laws. In October, Dublin hosts an international summit titled Enabling AI to Power European Growth. Dialog meets in August, a month after Ireland takes the chair, 2 months before the summit. Ireland has published a plan to fast-track new AI data centres beside wind and solar farms, even though they already use 22% of its electricity, more than all the country's urban homes. A single large AI data centre can use 5 million gallons of water a day, as much as a town of 50,000 people. In the US, communities are fighting them town by town. Erin Brockovich, whose water-contamination case became a Hollywood film, is onto her second project. She has collected over 5,000 reports of lost water, rising bills and noise. More on that soon. A Gallup poll found 70% of Americans oppose AI data centres. Building AI means building data centres, which need far more electricity, land, and water than any person or company can supply alone. Only a government can grant supply on that scale, and a senior Irish energy official was on Thiel's guest list. | 165 comments on LinkedIn

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Three things happened this month. No one connected them. Terence Tao had $26 million in NSF grants frozen. Alex Liu rejected US opportunities for Shenzhen. Chinese AI apps are winning globally. Here's the pattern everyone is missing: This is not about innovation failing. It IS about America creating conditions that push elite talent into China's hands. Terence Tao is the Mozart of mathematics. When his $26 million in NSF grants got frozen, Chinese universities called within days. Even after reinstatement, the damage was done. "I'm not certain about anything anymore," he said. Alex Liu is a Chinese-born, American-trained PhD. He looked at US opportunities and chose Shenzhen Bay Laboratory instead. His explanation was brutal: "I really didn't find that many opportunities in America." Meanwhile, 23 of the world's top 100 AI apps now come from Chinese developers. 19 of them earn most of their revenue overseas. This is the mirror image of how China caught up in manufacturing, but running in reverse. Apple and Tesla taught China through proximity. Factories learned over a decade by building next to American engineers. Knowledge transferred slowly through 18-hour shifts and precision iteration. AI has no assembly line. You either have the researchers or you don't. The US trains elite PhDs. NSF funds their peak years. Trump-era cuts create uncertainty. China sends offers with unlimited funding and zero visa drama. Researchers leave with 10-15 years of American expertise intact. China deploys it immediately into global products. This cycle takes 6-12 months, not 10 years. That's a 20x acceleration over manufacturing transfer. Unlike chips, you can't export-control algorithmic knowledge. It lives in people's heads. Chinese scientists told Harvard immunologist Jonathan Kagan: "We hope Trump is President for life. It is the best thing to happen to Chinese science." They weren't joking. They were stating strategy. The irony is almost too much. The clearest competitive advantage China enjoys in AI today isn't algorithmic. It's policy-driven talent migration created by American instability. To reverse this: stable NSF funding, clear visa pathways, research protected from politics. Right now, the signal is the opposite. And Beijing is reading it carefully. P.S. I wrote about how this same pattern unfolded in manufacturing - Apple and Tesla accidentally teaching China over 20 years what now happens in AI in 12 months. If you want the full manufacturing breakdown, link in first comment. | 221 comments on LinkedIn

Dr. Strangelove seems to be reincarnated about once a generation or so. Let's be blunt here. Most of the talent behind many of the current LMM implementations came from China. Yes, the country is nominally a one party authoritarian state, though there are more millionaires and billionaires per capita in China than in the US. The country has universal health care, a high standard of education, high-speed rail transit systems, affordable housing, and a level of technological sophistication that is now not just equal to, but well ahead of, the United States. It has not invaded another country in more than a century, and it is quietly reshaping the global currency system. It is far from perfect, but it is increasingly looking better than the US on almost any metric of human rights and quality of life. The question I always have when people like Alex Karp make blanket statements like the quote below is "preferable for WHOM?" | 11 comments on LinkedIn

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The Tony Blair Institute has received $257m from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's personal foundation. And it's not a free lunch. Tony Blair has been a relentless envangelist for AI in government in recent years - and this may explain his thinking.... Below is a really important investigation into how Larry Ellison - briefly last week the world's richest man on account of his company's sprawling investments in AI data centres - is able wield immense power inside the UK government - and many others worldwide - through Tony Blair. Larry Ellison is of course one of Trump's most prominent supporters, his son now leads the Paramount media conglomerate (no doubt purely down to his own extraordinary talent), and both of them look set to be picking up US TikTok for a firesale rate. And what Larry really wants is the UK's NHS data, which - on account of the UK's unique unitary public health system - is a uniquely rich set of heath data on 60 million people that stretches back nearly 80 years. As a result the TBI has vastly more money than any other think tank - and has largely become a public sector sales service for Oracle services and AI - regardless of whether it's appropriate for a government or not. One TBI advisory brief for a country was pushing for the country to adopt an AI -first strategy and position itself as a test bed for self driving cars, because of it's “ideal terrain variations and regular real-world testing opportunities”. The country was Ethiopia in 2020, when it was engulfed in civil strife. Link in comments | 80 comments on LinkedIn

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🚨 Global South scholars have said it for decades — now influential economists Thomas Piketty confirms it with 225 years of data: In a brilliant new paper with Gastón Nievas, Piketty traces 225 years of global trade, finance, and foreign wealth to show what many have long known: 👉🏽 What we call “development” is often just unequal exchange. 💥 The Global North didn’t get rich through fair trade — it got rich through colonial transfers, coerced labor, and rigged prices. ⸻ 🔍 Key findings: 1️⃣ Colonial extraction powered Europe’s rise. From 1800–1914, Europe ran persistent trade deficits — but still accumulated over 30% of global GDP in foreign wealth. How? Through tribute payments, forced tax transfers, and income from colonial holdings. 2️⃣ Today’s economy runs on the same logic. East Asia (esp. China, Japan) now plays the surplus game. The U.S. runs massive deficits, financed by financial hegemony. Meanwhile, the Global South continues to export cheap raw materials, often produced via forced labor and unsustainable debt. 3️⃣ Invisible flows distort the story. Colonial powers got rich not by exporting more, but by extracting more — through services, profits, and interest from the periphery. 4️⃣ It didn’t have to be this way. A 20% rise in commodity prices in the 19th century would have reversed the flow of wealth, turning Africa, Asia, and Latin America into creditors — and Europe into a debtor. 5️⃣ Colonial drain > modern aid. India’s transfers to Britain. Haiti’s debt to France. These weren’t small injustices — they were global-scale theft, still unpaid. ⸻ 📣 The authors call for bold structural change: ✅ A global clearing union ✅ A tax on excessive trade surpluses ✅ IMF reform that puts real power in the hands of the Global South 💡 The most striking insight? Small shifts in trade rules or prices could have created real convergence. But we didn’t let it happen. Because the system wasn’t broken — it was designed like this. Unequal exchange, colonial extraction, debt traps, and forced labor aren’t historical anomalies. They’re built into the architecture of trade, finance, and global governance. Markets didn’t fix it. Growth didn’t fix it. “Development” didn’t fix it. Because the system was never designed to correct — only to extract. Until we confront that, inequality isn’t a bug. It’s the business model. Now we have the data. And no more excuses. The graphic is an adaption of the amazing illustrator polyp.org.uk - the adaption was approved by illustrator. Check out his work here - https://polyp.org.uk | 280 comments on LinkedIn