CAB3 Passed: Broad Support and Clear Understanding
These are some of the SIMPLE things that folks like @mawarirej don’t get…. CAB3 has widespread support & many Zimbabweans actually understand what the Bill is all about… here is a very simplified explanation of what’s going on… CAB3 is a done deal✅ https://t.co/mRwAVDiJfd
Iranians Fired on US Planes, Not Supporting War
According to General Kaine, ordinary Iranians with small guns were shooting at US planes In other words, NO IRANIAN was celebrating their presence, they were hostile towards the US military But @PahlaviReza is going around saying Iranians support the war https://t.co/maD9iXxLHA
China’s Coal‑Based Urea Shields It From Fertiliser Price Spikes
China produces ~80% of its urea from coal rather than (as most other nations do) natural gas. The method is insulating Beijing from rising nitrogen fertiliser prices. I wrote ⤵️ this @Opinion column about the Chinese coal-to-chemicals industry last June. https://t.co/TQg6HHD3J8
AMD‑Arm 2014 Opteron A1120 Packs Eight Cortex
I finally got one. @AMD x @Arm in 2014. Opteron A1120, aka AMD Seattle Up to 8x Cortex-A57, 4MB L2, 8MB L3 128-bit DDR3/4-1866 PCIe 3.0 x8 and 2x10GbE https://t.co/w08sMceEPB
Ultra-Endurance Running May Speed Up Aging, RBC Damage
Ultra-Endurance Running May Accelerate Aging and Breakdown of Red Blood Cells | @ASH_hematology https://t.co/aYbsblfTwZ https://t.co/NYSKw0843c
Unexpected Allies Urge Trump to Pursue Iran Deal
Respectfully disagree, Jim as according to press accounts, Iran is being more conciliatory. (1) Mario Nawfal on X: "WOW... Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner are reportedly now pushing Trump to take a deal with Iran, according to Axios....
Second Amendment Focus May Curb 3D Printing Freedoms
America's obsession with thinking about Second Amendment rights (while being unwilling to talk honestly about gun control) means you're possibly going to be unable to use 3D printers anymore without handing over data. Really. My latest for @FastCompany https://t.co/d5kwfQ49W7
FTTH, Copper Switch‑Off, and Telecom Sovereignty Explored
Latest #DBTT Podcast by me & @fiberguy is out We discuss #FTTH, copper switch-off, upcoming @FTTHCouncilEU conf, the recent @BERECeuropaeu Stakeholder Forum & the importance of #WiFi & next Unthinkable Lab event on #Telecoms #Sovereignty. https://t.co/3HNNaLvV2g
UK Car Sales Hit Highest Level Since 2019
UK car sales rise to highest since 2019 in resilient showing https://t.co/SdD77s8CtF via @JamieNimmo63 https://t.co/k4WT8h1Gv1
War‑Driven Food Prices Shift Slightly, Crisis Not Imminent
Key food commodity prices since US-Iran war started: 🍚 Rice: ⬇️ -6.3% 🌾 Wheat: ⬇️ -0.5% 🥫 Soybean: ⬆️ +0.6% 🌽 Corn: ...
Jean Smart's Deborah Reflects on Legacy in Hacks Finale
TV Talk: @hbomax comedy #Hacks returns this week as Deborah (Jean Smart) considers her legacy in the show's final season, via @TribLIVE - https://t.co/piyZ6XWyZz https://t.co/1BG7BzJDvI
Lynk&Co Charges 40% in Three Minutes
Are We Even Playing? Lynk&Co (GEELY) shows a vehicle charging from 10% SoC to 50% within three minutes, at that point it's still charging at over 900A (805kW) 95kWh battery ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging https://t.co/hrq0w5Br9x
Pilots Demand Final Authority on War‑zone Flights
Airline pilots must be given final say on flying in war zones, aviators' group says https://t.co/2GQj075PPF
Broadcom Expands AI Chip Deal with Google, Anthropic
Broadcom to Supply AI Chips to Google, Computing Capacity to Anthropic in Expanded Collaboration https://t.co/yHCXipodGy
Australian Coal Prices Surge 30% as Asia Shifts From Gas
AUSTRALIA’s coal export prices have risen by around 25-30% compared with the start of the year. Front-month Newcastle coal futures have averaged $137 per tonne so far in April up from $108 in January. Electricity generators across South and East...
Bootstrapped Cryo‑AI: LLMs Power Life‑Saving Freeze Tech
Meet Dr. Mark Woodward, undergrad and grad from Stanford, PhD from Harvard, Many years at Google as part of Google brain. One day he realizes that we need the enabling technology to pause biological time for patients that are about...
5G Rollout, yet UK Still Suffers Weak Signal
All this 5G radiation and I still can’t get a good phone signal in the UK.
UK BEV Sales Surge 24% as Petrol
UK BEV sales jump 24% year-on-year in March 2026, the first full month since US/Israel attacks on Iran +47% PHEV in March (+47 YTD) +22% BEV (+15 YTD) +7% hybrid (+6) -6% diesel (-10) -11% petrol (-4) Petrol/diesel have lost 5 points of mkt share in...
Fast Breeders Unlock India's Thorium and U‑238 Potential
Have been reading about this for a while now. India has a specifically important need for Fast Breeders. The control of uranium is with other countries and India has too little - and what it has, the real fissile stuff...
Europe Can't Afford to Skip Energy Transition, Says Central Bank
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 "...the real question is no longer whether Europe can afford to make the energy transition. It is whether it can afford not to. From a central banking perspective, the answer is clear." 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging https://t.co/mw6zNYC63B
Apple’s Chips Reshape Tech, Windows Remains Biggest Win
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows https://t.co/4r2S3X5l3x https://t.co/cZkkMSXv99
Bridge Collapse Seen as Deliberate Supply Chain Sabotage
I don’t buy this was an accident. If the bridge had fallen into the water and shut down the canal, it would have a massive impact on the American supply chains. Too perfect of a hit to be an accident, considering...
Germany's Cheapest Lease Car Will Soon Be Electric
Soon: Germany's Cheapest Car To Lease 🇩🇪🇩🇪 will be an EV 🌩️🌩️ #exciting times #alwaysbecharging #rentelectric ⚡️⚡️⚡️ https://t.co/IB5WHA1NI4
AI Turns Patients Into Self‑Diagnosing Symptom Spirals
The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral: when ChatGPT tries to convince you that something is wrong with your medical record or lab results. We have to get used to dealing with patients getting into such troubles, because patients have always tried to...
Predict Today's Odds for US‑Iran Conflict Scenarios
Hey @grok What do you set the probability for these three outcomes today by 8 PM EST?: #1 Iran and U.S. have a ceasefire. #2 Trump orders the attack on Iran’s infrastructure. #3 Trump extends the deadline. Or a #4 possible outcome.
Every Encryption System Needs a Cryptography Bill of Materials
Cybeats Blog | Cryptography Bill of Materials (CBOM): Why Every Encryption Ecosystem Needs One https://t.co/DGQpWfPZ3F
AI Is Becoming a Commodity, True Edge Requires Uniqueness
AI Is Now a Commodity: Same Tools, Same Vendors, Same Results – How Agents Build a Real Edge This is the most impactful AI read I’ve seen in months — it confronts the harsh reality that AI is rapidly commoditizing,...
Easy Growth Ends: Relying on Mom Accounts Signals Trouble
For years, we were told growth would come from better products, bigger bets, and bold strategy. Turns out sometimes it just comes from telling Mom to get her own account. Funny line. Real signal. Because when companies start celebrating gains like this, you...
Ukrainian Astronaut Steps Onto Moon, Future Realized
The Moon, 10 minutes after the first Ukrainian sets foot on its surface in the future: https://t.co/uoaw7IQY7a
Open‑source Tool Simplifies SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR Compliance
Comp AI: The open-source way to get compliant with SOC 2, #ISO27001, #HIPAA and #GDPR https://t.co/mvwHwvS9mu https://t.co/q7t0s2qhc4
OHGR Lands 3‑year Sheffield Deal; Valuation Dips, Modest Dividend
#OHGR got Sheffield Teaching Hospital to sign up to 3 year deal. ShareScope has fwd p/e 19 falling to 18 and fwd Divvy 2.6% each of next 2 years. Interesting with NHS a national disgrace. I don't hold.
Iran Set
Iran is likely to deploy human shields to its bridges and power plants tonight. The use of civilians as human shields is banned under the Geneva Conventions (article 51).
Future Homes Standard Will Fall 400k Short of Target
A useful bit of recent information from housing expert Neal Hudson in his FT piece on issues facing housing: "even the government’s own modelling for the Future Homes Standard shows it will miss its 1.5 million housebuilding target by 400,000". #ukhousing...
Tune Into Deadlock's DLNight Shift Weekly for Top EU/NA Streams
If you don’t know about @Deadlock yet come watch the @DLNight Shift at 4ET every weds for the best in EU and NA
Kloeckner Acquires Camalloy to Broaden US Metal Distribution
Kloeckner acquired Camalloy to expand aluminum and stainless steel distribution across key US industrial markets. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/04/kloeckner-camalloy-acquisition-expands.html
Rising Energy Costs Accelerate Electrification, Punish Slow Movers
Higher energy costs strengthen the business case for electrification and efficiency. History shows crises accelerate the transition. Companies most at risk are those that were slow to act. My comments in @Top1000Funds https://t.co/3KbHsAORIu https://t.co/tJlb60RW1a
AI Empowers Insurers to Overcome Three Key Challenges
"AI in insurance" could help incumbents tackle the 3 challenges they currently face ! → https://t.co/5EXeV0tivQ This is how I would summarize Earnix's yearly conference which recently took place in Paris. https://t.co/zwFUlTSP26
Digital Twins Simulate Psychedelic Effects for Consciousness Disorders
Digital twins allow virtual clinical trials of psychedelics for disorders of consciousness 🧠↔🧠 | Innovation | Tech for Good. 💬 Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists have developed personalized, whole-brain computational models of patients with disorders of consciousness. Using these...
Filming Air Hunger at Sussex’s Seven Sisters for Amazon
Was nice to be back at Seven Sisters in Sussex yesterday where we shot for Air Hunger (doc coming out next month on @amazon in the Netherlands). https://t.co/sy9RwqAgNX
Russian FPV Drone Slaughters Civilians on Ukrainian Minibus
Russians simply struck an ordinary minibus in Nikopol with an FPV drone. A typical yellow public transport bus, the kind you see by the thousands across cities in Ukraine. It was just pulling up to a regular stop, one of many,...
ATI Boosts Jet Engine Alloy Supply with New NC Furnace
ATI will add a new VIM furnace in North Carolina to expand nickel superalloy capacity for jet engine demand. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/04/ati-nickel-superalloy-capacity.html
Ackman's $63B Bid Proves Music Isn't Dead
Bill Ackman's $63 billion offer for Universal Music strikes me 2 ways... 1. I know almost nothing about the music business. 2. If he is offering $63 billion, I guess the music business is not as dead as people have been saying...
China’s Courts Curb Forced Sales, Hiding True Mortgage Defaults
Bloomberg: "The moves [by local courts to limit the volume of forced property sales by slowing the number of cases involving defaulted mortgages] underscore how China’s local institutions are working to limit the damage of a yearslong property crisis that...
Musk’s Mega‑IPO Likely Boosts Tesla, Not Hurts It
It’s funny to me that the bears have managed to convince people that Musk doing the largest IPO of all time, becoming a trillionaire, and raising $75 billion for SpaceX / xAI would somehow be bad for Tesla. Musk cannot...
Weight Rebound Is Inevitable After Stopping GLP‑1s
Why weight regain is a predictable biological response after stopping GLP-1s [PODCAST] http://dlvr.it/TRvfHv Podcast #Diabetes
Petrodollar Death Rants Are Wishful, Not Insightful
🧵There’s been an acute breakout of death of the petrodollar thought pieces over the weekend. This should have discerning investors thinking twice. Not about the dollar, however. About piling into an obviously crowded and extremely unoriginal perspective that is mostly...
More Bank Staff, Lower Pay Stalls Chinese Consumption
Interesting story. While employee numbers at nine joint-stock banks in China climbed last year, total compensation actually declined, by 1.4%. I don't know how typical this is, but it does suggest why it has been so hard to accelerate consumption...
Regional Blocs Form New Multi‑Hub Global Trade Order
In case you missed the posting of my new eBook over Easter weekend👇https://t.co/AzOGN20mu3 The April 2025 US tariffs triggered global trade conflict. This column introduces World War Trade: Conflict, Containment, and the Emergent World Trading Order, a new CEPR Rapid...
Silicon Valley Debuted on HBO on April 6, 2014
#ThisDayInTechHistory. April 6, 2014. HBO's Silicon Valley comedy series created by Mike Judge first airs. (HBO) https://t.co/fPOgHPyzNh
Iran's Moves
What Iran means for the dollar: a perfect storm for the petrodollar - Deutsche Bank Research Institute https://t.co/gVdGKCUzyc Why have fiat as an intermediary when you could trade oil tokens for wheat tokens (or whatever) ? https://t.co/ocO6m7zPVd