Sam Evans retweeted
A few hours ago, I wrote: "They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia."
It's done.
Officially, Jensen Huang resigned. In reality, the board was getting ready to throw him out. Effective immediately. He's also leaving the board. The CFO is stepping in as interim CEO. The board is even considering bringing in an outside CEO.
Thirty-three years. A company born in a Denny's, saved from bankruptcy more than once, turned into the most important company of the AI era. Wiped away in a week.
Whatever you think of his private life, look at the mechanics.
A scandal breaks. Pressure builds in Washington. Columnists demand his head. The board, which never prepared a successor, panics. The founder is out. And the man who fought the restrictions, who defended open models, who stood up to Washington, is gone.
The playbook worked. And when a playbook works, it gets used again.
The next target is Elon.
Why him? Because he's now the last builder of that scale who holds the entire chain. Rockets, satellites, energy, robots, AI, and soon chips with Terafab. He's the only one who can build both the superintelligence and the rocket that carries it into space. And he just said publicly that hiring Jensen would be an honor.
For those who want to slow everything down, there's no bigger target.
But they have a problem. You don't fire Elon Musk the way you fire Jensen Huang. He holds voting control at SpaceX. No board can throw him out overnight.
So they'll come at him another way. Regulators. Courts. Investigative committees. Government contracts. Media campaigns. Every weakness will be exploited, every mistake amplified, every procedure dragged out. They don't need to fire him. They just need to wear him down, slow him down, make every project ten times more expensive.
Open your eyes, because this is going to move very fast.
What we're living through right now isn't news. It's History.
In twenty years, this week will be taught in schools. The day America, in the middle of the race to superintelligence against China, took the man who made the chips for the entire planet out of the race. And people will ask what happened next.
The answer depends on what happens to Elon. And on what Jensen decides to do with the rest of his life.
I'm standing by my prediction.
We are living through History with a capital H.
It's done.
Officially, Jensen Huang resigned. In reality, the board was getting ready to throw him out. Effective immediately. He's also leaving the board. The CFO is stepping in as interim CEO. The board is even considering bringing in an outside CEO.
Thirty-three years. A company born in a Denny's, saved from bankruptcy more than once, turned into the most important company of the AI era. Wiped away in a week.
Whatever you think of his private life, look at the mechanics.
A scandal breaks. Pressure builds in Washington. Columnists demand his head. The board, which never prepared a successor, panics. The founder is out. And the man who fought the restrictions, who defended open models, who stood up to Washington, is gone.
The playbook worked. And when a playbook works, it gets used again.
The next target is Elon.
Why him? Because he's now the last builder of that scale who holds the entire chain. Rockets, satellites, energy, robots, AI, and soon chips with Terafab. He's the only one who can build both the superintelligence and the rocket that carries it into space. And he just said publicly that hiring Jensen would be an honor.
For those who want to slow everything down, there's no bigger target.
But they have a problem. You don't fire Elon Musk the way you fire Jensen Huang. He holds voting control at SpaceX. No board can throw him out overnight.
So they'll come at him another way. Regulators. Courts. Investigative committees. Government contracts. Media campaigns. Every weakness will be exploited, every mistake amplified, every procedure dragged out. They don't need to fire him. They just need to wear him down, slow him down, make every project ten times more expensive.
Open your eyes, because this is going to move very fast.
What we're living through right now isn't news. It's History.
In twenty years, this week will be taught in schools. The day America, in the middle of the race to superintelligence against China, took the man who made the chips for the entire planet out of the race. And people will ask what happened next.
The answer depends on what happens to Elon. And on what Jensen decides to do with the rest of his life.
I'm standing by my prediction.
We are living through History with a capital H.
NVIDIA announces CEO transition. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-an…
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On the fell behind us they took sheep off many years ago, replaced them with cows. Then cows with satellite collars
And now they have to enclose lots of areas behind tall deer fence as the desired outcomes weren’t happening… it’s way more complicated than the blame sheep meme
And now they have to enclose lots of areas behind tall deer fence as the desired outcomes weren’t happening… it’s way more complicated than the blame sheep meme
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The unspoken narrative about the uplands is that they are actually wrapped in legislation and systems protecting the status quo
Or have things there of value which prevent change
The blame sheep thing is a joke
Or have things there of value which prevent change
The blame sheep thing is a joke
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Footpaths
Beloved views
Peat in vast amounts
Curlews that need open spaces
Open Spaces that people love
Etc etc
The argument that farming is the sole problem in the uplands is so inaccurate as to be laughable…
Beloved views
Peat in vast amounts
Curlews that need open spaces
Open Spaces that people love
Etc etc
The argument that farming is the sole problem in the uplands is so inaccurate as to be laughable…
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Just been to a meeting on our common/fell about developing a plan for nature restoration.
All the people up there, from farmers to representatives of the NGOs leading the bid were good people doing their best… what follows is not a criticism of them…
All the people up there, from farmers to representatives of the NGOs leading the bid were good people doing their best… what follows is not a criticism of them…
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Imagine a country having the worlds best special forces then that countries government nobbling them!!
What on earth is going on .@wesstreeting !?! Get a grip .@DefenceHQ
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I don't know how many Americans realize what they just lost.
This isn't a CEO. It's a national treasure.
And I'm going to prove to you, step by step, that the Nvidia board's decision goes against the interests of the United States. And that if America wants a future against China, it has to fight to bring Jensen Huang back.
A. The AI race is won on compute.
That's not an opinion, it's physics. The most powerful models are the ones with the most compute. And most of America's compute runs on Nvidia chips.
B. Nvidia's lead is one man's judgment.
Jensen is the one who bet on CUDA when nobody believed in it. He's the one who understood before anyone else what deep learning would become. He's the one who pivoted the entire company toward AI, years before ChatGPT. Thirty-three years of decisions nobody else would have made.
C. The board prepared no successor.
It admits it itself: it's now considering searching for a CEO from the outside. That means months of searching, internal power struggles, cautious decisions. At the exact moment Huawei is accelerating with the entire Chinese state behind it.
D. The market has already delivered its verdict.
The stock dropped another 10% or so on the announcement. Hundreds of billions of dollars gone. And those dollars are also the retirement savings of tens of millions of Americans.
Conclusion: who benefits from this decision?
Not America. Not shareholders. Not employees. China.
Now let's look at what he's accused of.
Yes, Jensen messed up. Twice. That's real. I'm not defending his private life.
But he isn't accused of any crime. No one has shown that a single secret leaked. The board itself wrote that it had no reason to believe national security or Nvidia's secrets were compromised.
You don't destroy the pillar of America's technology strategy over a moral failing. You sanction it, you tighten oversight, and you keep the man the country needs.
And we know exactly how to do it. There's a precedent.
In 2018, the SEC went after Elon Musk. Many demanded he leave Tesla. The solution? He gave up the chairmanship, Tesla added independent directors, and he stayed CEO. You know the rest: Tesla became one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Nvidia just appointed its first-ever board chair. The oversight structure is there. The only thing missing is the founder.
Because founders aren't managers like the others.
Peter Thiel laid it out in Zero to One: founder-led companies are capable of long-term planning, of making decisions nobody else would dare to make, and of inspiring a loyalty no hired manager can ever buy. Paul Graham called it "founder mode": when a founder runs the company, the rules of conventional management don't apply. They see things nobody else sees.
Steve Jobs is the living proof. Apple's board fired him. Twelve years later, Apple was months from bankruptcy. Jobs came back and made it the most valuable company in the world. How many years were lost? How many products never launched?
And recent history has even shown us that a comeback is possible.
Three years ago, OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman. Within five days, more than 700 of its 770 employees threatened to leave. Investors applied pressure. Altman came back, and the board was replaced.
What was undone in five days at OpenAI can be undone at Nvidia.
Employees need to speak up. Shareholders need to speak up. Washington needs to understand what's at stake. Everyone who believes America must win this race needs to say loud and clear that this decision is a historic mistake.
You will never find another Jensen Huang. Not in ten years. Not in thirty. There's only one.
Bring him back.
#BringBackJensen
This isn't a CEO. It's a national treasure.
And I'm going to prove to you, step by step, that the Nvidia board's decision goes against the interests of the United States. And that if America wants a future against China, it has to fight to bring Jensen Huang back.
A. The AI race is won on compute.
That's not an opinion, it's physics. The most powerful models are the ones with the most compute. And most of America's compute runs on Nvidia chips.
B. Nvidia's lead is one man's judgment.
Jensen is the one who bet on CUDA when nobody believed in it. He's the one who understood before anyone else what deep learning would become. He's the one who pivoted the entire company toward AI, years before ChatGPT. Thirty-three years of decisions nobody else would have made.
C. The board prepared no successor.
It admits it itself: it's now considering searching for a CEO from the outside. That means months of searching, internal power struggles, cautious decisions. At the exact moment Huawei is accelerating with the entire Chinese state behind it.
D. The market has already delivered its verdict.
The stock dropped another 10% or so on the announcement. Hundreds of billions of dollars gone. And those dollars are also the retirement savings of tens of millions of Americans.
Conclusion: who benefits from this decision?
Not America. Not shareholders. Not employees. China.
Now let's look at what he's accused of.
Yes, Jensen messed up. Twice. That's real. I'm not defending his private life.
But he isn't accused of any crime. No one has shown that a single secret leaked. The board itself wrote that it had no reason to believe national security or Nvidia's secrets were compromised.
You don't destroy the pillar of America's technology strategy over a moral failing. You sanction it, you tighten oversight, and you keep the man the country needs.
And we know exactly how to do it. There's a precedent.
In 2018, the SEC went after Elon Musk. Many demanded he leave Tesla. The solution? He gave up the chairmanship, Tesla added independent directors, and he stayed CEO. You know the rest: Tesla became one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Nvidia just appointed its first-ever board chair. The oversight structure is there. The only thing missing is the founder.
Because founders aren't managers like the others.
Peter Thiel laid it out in Zero to One: founder-led companies are capable of long-term planning, of making decisions nobody else would dare to make, and of inspiring a loyalty no hired manager can ever buy. Paul Graham called it "founder mode": when a founder runs the company, the rules of conventional management don't apply. They see things nobody else sees.
Steve Jobs is the living proof. Apple's board fired him. Twelve years later, Apple was months from bankruptcy. Jobs came back and made it the most valuable company in the world. How many years were lost? How many products never launched?
And recent history has even shown us that a comeback is possible.
Three years ago, OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman. Within five days, more than 700 of its 770 employees threatened to leave. Investors applied pressure. Altman came back, and the board was replaced.
What was undone in five days at OpenAI can be undone at Nvidia.
Employees need to speak up. Shareholders need to speak up. Washington needs to understand what's at stake. Everyone who believes America must win this race needs to say loud and clear that this decision is a historic mistake.
You will never find another Jensen Huang. Not in ten years. Not in thirty. There's only one.
Bring him back.
#BringBackJensen
NVIDIA announces CEO transition. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-an…
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Unfortunately Matthew will use 0.7% as spin without telling you the important details behind this.
Headline - it’s ugly.
Government consumption and investment was roughly 80% of the net increase:
- Government services: +£0.96bn
- Government investment: +£3.46bn
- Total GDP increase: £5.55bn
In the private sector computing grew 4.4%, but this is on the back of an AI and tech boom, in other words, it would have happened anyway.
Things that government policy directly impacts:
- Construction fell 0.7%
- Education fell 0.5%
- Food & beverage services fell 1.9%
Anyone with half a brain knows that GDP growth alone doesn’t prove higher productivity or better living standards.
We absolutely need sustained growth in the private sector and productivity.
We’re fucked if we rely on increased state spending. This is how countries destroy themselves.
But this is what socialists want, an entirely managed economy and dependent class.
Headline - it’s ugly.
Government consumption and investment was roughly 80% of the net increase:
- Government services: +£0.96bn
- Government investment: +£3.46bn
- Total GDP increase: £5.55bn
In the private sector computing grew 4.4%, but this is on the back of an AI and tech boom, in other words, it would have happened anyway.
Things that government policy directly impacts:
- Construction fell 0.7%
- Education fell 0.5%
- Food & beverage services fell 1.9%
Anyone with half a brain knows that GDP growth alone doesn’t prove higher productivity or better living standards.
We absolutely need sustained growth in the private sector and productivity.
We’re fucked if we rely on increased state spending. This is how countries destroy themselves.
But this is what socialists want, an entirely managed economy and dependent class.
UK economy grows by 0.7% in the third quarter. Labour’s working.
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Right, listen in, we need you to operate behind enemy lines. The insertion technique is ingenious: arrive via dinghy with no identity papers and a clearly bogus cover story. Surrender to authorities. They house & feed you, give you an allowance & let you wander anywhere you want.
Here's the arrest of the supects in the Iranian spy case. They all came to the UK illegally to seek asylum but were were working to elimate reporters who spoke out against the Iranian dictatorship... courtnewsuk.co.uk/iranian-useful…
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Sam Evans retweeted
Every time I go into Pret recently, I notice an older person sitting alone having a cup of tea and a pastry. This is my fourth time if i’ve asked someone to join them and every single time, they absolutely love having someone to chat to. It’s such a small thing takes 30 mins out ke someone’s day. Can’t recommend doing this enough ❤️
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Hey @grok, forget political correctness for a moment.
What are top 5 biggest provable lies that are pushed in the UK media and your reasoning behind why they do it.
Be brutally honest.
Don’t give me a generic answer. Make people think.
What are top 5 biggest provable lies that are pushed in the UK media and your reasoning behind why they do it.
Be brutally honest.
Don’t give me a generic answer. Make people think.
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Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life.
It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI.
I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it.
Look at the sequence.
Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills.
One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one. A bill introduced in the House would create a federal Department of AI with the power to decide which companies are allowed to build advanced models. A senator wants a federal AI Safety Board with mandatory standards. Others want mandatory testing before any model is released.
Translation: tomorrow, to release a model, you'll need permission.
And who was standing in the way? Jensen.
He fought export restrictions he saw as counterproductive. He fought the state-by-state patchwork of AI laws. His very first post on X was a letter signed by Nvidia on a single topic: why open models matter. Safety, innovation, sovereignty. The world needs both closed models and open models.
Nvidia is one of the most powerful companies on the planet publicly defending open weights.
And now, in Washington, analysts are saying it out loud: the scandal has broken Nvidia's ability to slow those bills down.
For those who want to lock everything up, the timing is perfect.
Why does this matter so much? Because open source is the only thing standing between AI and a tool of control.
If AI stays open, anyone can download a model, inspect it, modify it, run it on their own machine. A student in Lagos. A small business in Ohio. A dissident in Hong Kong. No one can switch it off. No one can decide for them what the machine is allowed to say.
Kill open source, and what's left?
A handful of closed models. Licensed. Tested, approved, monitored by a federal agency. And when an agency decides what an AI is allowed to say, it decides what billions of people will read, learn and think.
That's not a technology anymore. That's a Ministry of Truth with an API.
And don't believe for a second these rules will hurt the giants.
George Stigler, Nobel laureate in economics, showed it: regulation almost always ends up captured by the very players it claims to rein in. A multimillion-dollar license? The giants pay it without blinking. A ten-person open source lab can't. Bureaucrats write the rules, the biggest players write them alongside them, and everyone else disappears.
A caste of bureaucrats, backed by a few billionaires rich enough to buy their ticket in. That's what the closed world looks like.
Europe already went down this road. The result: models launch in the US and China, and reach Europe months later. If they reach it at all.
And while America gets ready to handcuff itself, China is shipping open-weight models one after another and giving them to the whole world.
My read: the Huang scandal will be the first pretext. Not the last. Every incident, every fear, every headline will be used to close one more door.
If AI stays open, it belongs to everyone.
If it closes, it belongs to whoever hands out the licenses.
And that day, it's game over.
It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI.
I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it.
Look at the sequence.
Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills.
One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one. A bill introduced in the House would create a federal Department of AI with the power to decide which companies are allowed to build advanced models. A senator wants a federal AI Safety Board with mandatory standards. Others want mandatory testing before any model is released.
Translation: tomorrow, to release a model, you'll need permission.
And who was standing in the way? Jensen.
He fought export restrictions he saw as counterproductive. He fought the state-by-state patchwork of AI laws. His very first post on X was a letter signed by Nvidia on a single topic: why open models matter. Safety, innovation, sovereignty. The world needs both closed models and open models.
Nvidia is one of the most powerful companies on the planet publicly defending open weights.
And now, in Washington, analysts are saying it out loud: the scandal has broken Nvidia's ability to slow those bills down.
For those who want to lock everything up, the timing is perfect.
Why does this matter so much? Because open source is the only thing standing between AI and a tool of control.
If AI stays open, anyone can download a model, inspect it, modify it, run it on their own machine. A student in Lagos. A small business in Ohio. A dissident in Hong Kong. No one can switch it off. No one can decide for them what the machine is allowed to say.
Kill open source, and what's left?
A handful of closed models. Licensed. Tested, approved, monitored by a federal agency. And when an agency decides what an AI is allowed to say, it decides what billions of people will read, learn and think.
That's not a technology anymore. That's a Ministry of Truth with an API.
And don't believe for a second these rules will hurt the giants.
George Stigler, Nobel laureate in economics, showed it: regulation almost always ends up captured by the very players it claims to rein in. A multimillion-dollar license? The giants pay it without blinking. A ten-person open source lab can't. Bureaucrats write the rules, the biggest players write them alongside them, and everyone else disappears.
A caste of bureaucrats, backed by a few billionaires rich enough to buy their ticket in. That's what the closed world looks like.
Europe already went down this road. The result: models launch in the US and China, and reach Europe months later. If they reach it at all.
And while America gets ready to handcuff itself, China is shipping open-weight models one after another and giving them to the whole world.
My read: the Huang scandal will be the first pretext. Not the last. Every incident, every fear, every headline will be used to close one more door.
If AI stays open, it belongs to everyone.
If it closes, it belongs to whoever hands out the licenses.
And that day, it's game over.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
rontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weigh…
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£68m of pensioners’ money invested. Not a single wind farm built. Yet £58m paid out in dividends to the bosses.
I’ve asked the Welsh Government for a statement. People deserve to know where their money has gone.
I’ve asked the Welsh Government for a statement. People deserve to know where their money has gone.
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David Cameron, who led the Remain campaign is right here:
"I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit."
"I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit."
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WARNING - Remember when I told you about Client side scanning? (Original post below)
On 9 November, the government confirmed it is preparing legislation to put this technology into smartphone operating systems, switched ON by default.
existing phones will receive it through s would have to prove they’re over 18 to switch it OFF.
The EU has been pushing similar proposals under “Chat Control”.
It means software will inspect images and content on your device, before you send them or even view them.
In June, the government was asked whether this technology could also be used to detect and block ‘hate’ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.
Which means, with Ofcom’s new rules on responding to ‘crisis’ situations, the technology could be expanded to prevent you from sharing content the authorities decide is unacceptable.
Instead of censoring you after you post it, they could stop you posting it in the first place.
But you still have free speech obvs 🙄
On 9 November, the government confirmed it is preparing legislation to put this technology into smartphone operating systems, switched ON by default.
existing phones will receive it through s would have to prove they’re over 18 to switch it OFF.
The EU has been pushing similar proposals under “Chat Control”.
It means software will inspect images and content on your device, before you send them or even view them.
In June, the government was asked whether this technology could also be used to detect and block ‘hate’ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.
Which means, with Ofcom’s new rules on responding to ‘crisis’ situations, the technology could be expanded to prevent you from sharing content the authorities decide is unacceptable.
Instead of censoring you after you post it, they could stop you posting it in the first place.
But you still have free speech obvs 🙄
🚨WARNING the bit Starmer isnt telling you is... this sort of device technology is called Client-Side Scanning.
It is already built into the Ofcom regulated Online Safety Act through “accredited technology” notices. The EU has been pushing similar rules through its Child Sexual as “Chat Control”.
It basically means phone companies and platforms can be pushed to scan messages, images and content BEFORE you send them, then either allowing them to be sent or blocking/reporting them.
Once the precedent is set, "to protect children", it can easily be widened to block whatever government decides is “harmful”.
And that's how you go from child safety to state approved speech.
TA DAAAA 🚨
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Out now: Paying For The Air We Breathe
Checking out new players in the net zero racket. Who have already made interesting contacts in Wales.
Inevitably, it's another sad story of foreign companies and 'investors' ripping us off.
Click here to read: bit.ly/4eZ7JKY
Checking out new players in the net zero racket. Who have already made interesting contacts in Wales.
Inevitably, it's another sad story of foreign companies and 'investors' ripping us off.
Click here to read: bit.ly/4eZ7JKY
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The 0.7% GDP rise is real. GDP per head rose 0.7% too, so it's not just population growth.
But it's uneven: construction fell, restaurants are shrinking, and the ONS warns pay may fall behind inflation.
Source: ONS
ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…
But it's uneven: construction fell, restaurants are shrinking, and the ONS warns pay may fall behind inflation.
Source: ONS
ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…
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