James von Simson

This is how AI will destroy humanity: not because AI becomes super intelligent but because humanity becomes super unintelligent.

I'm not a 'one chart to explain everything about British politics' guy, but if I were this would be the chart. You will notice the Chancellor's pre-election strategy, 'I would simply Do A Growth', has not had an effect.

Props to anyone who tries to be stylish in Ireland once I wore a beret to a funeral and some guy shouted "Alright Super Ra-io"

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

Building on my General Election Prediction App, I thought it might be fun to build an app that allows you to look at UK constituencies in a bunch of cool ways. So this app doesn't turn polls into seats. It looks at seats as they are.

livedataoxford.shinyapps.io/Constituency...

Quick thread 1/n

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

Seven, if you include the blackberry and iPhone on the second row. I like to age myself by admitting my first mobile had red LEDs for a screen #StarTAC4life

The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

The rates market deeply dislikes $90 oil

great chart by @raydouglas.bsky.social

Global bonds slump as Iran war upsets rate-cut bets
www.ft.com/content/d0b4...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

This chart shows how much crude oil from the Gulf heads to China, with comparatively little to Europe (including the UK).

*However*, if you look at oil *products* – refined from crude – UK gets a QUARTER of its oil products imports from the Gulf, and in total 15% of oil products consumed.

This volatility isn’t new - the spike takes us back to where we were in May 2025 and [checks notes] January 2026…

Also it’s spiked to less that 10% more than it was in May 2025 or January 2026…

I am starting to wonder if people who spend a lot of time talking to LLMs lose their stamina for actual critical analysis because they're so used to having their own priors reflected back at them in the guise of another's voice.

one way to tell something is not very important to Jamie Dimon is that he's asking the government to do it

Before today, no F-15 had been shot down in more than 35 years — since January 19, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War.

Before today, the U.S. had never had more than one aircraft shot down by friendly fire in a single day, let alone three.

Dan, I'm happy to announce you have passed the vital customary insults section of the UK citizenship test with flying colours, bravo @dankaszeta.bsky.social

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

The ridiculous extension of the wait for settled status isn't about putting up barriers to arrival, it's about putting up barriers to integration for people who have already been here for years. It's agreeing with Farage that these people should be treated with suspicion - and leaving it at that.

Matt Goodwin is Adrian Mole after he's been on Facebook for twenty years.

Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator...
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None of these are fake…

The German government is now legislating a new plan allowing firms to take up to 1.5% fees. 1 point 5 per cent.

The Swedish standard funds take ... 0.07%.

I can't believe a guy who doesn't believe in school would use a metaphor that doesn't make any sense