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CxO, NED, advisor. Curious. Deep tech (most especially semiconductors) & China. https://chilliventures.substack.com/ Usual sensible disclaimers apply.
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Trump administration: We’ll beat China by destroying everything that makes us competitive with China.

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

The @latimes.com says Paramount Chair Shari Redstone insisted that Skydance indemnify her from shareholder suits before she agreed to their planned merger. We hope she knows indemnification for illegal acts — like bribing the president to allow the merger — can be voided as against public policy.

Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft's new Recall AI feature, which records Windows users' activities and could be a gold mine to attackers. Learn more in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):

President Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency that enforces ethics law and protects whistleblowers, despite Ingrassia's links to extremists.

And we thought he couldn't do comedy

Really hope they get inundated with calls about UFOs

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Watch every bit. Your tax dollars.She’s having a panic attack.They should not be putting her in that van. They need to call EMS.The will claim she is faking.Her son is telling her to calm down and she says she does not want to die. Border Patrol, ICE & CBP are a disgrace.Glad I threw my badge away.

“250 million bees are now loose.” A tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over on a country road in Washington State on Friday, releasing an eye-popping number of honeybees, the authorities said.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

I represent Silicon Valley. There are more billionaires here than anywhere else on Earth. If I am saying “Tax the Billionaires,” why is that such a hard vote for the rest of Congress?

Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.

Ooft.

I found that Telegraph article about the family having to cut back on their five holidays a year and you'll never guess who the protagonists are... open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Two obvious points: 1) ordering a(nobviously ridiculous) quota of arrest means people will be arrested because of the color of their skin or the language they speak without regard to due process. Anything to get to high numbers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.” www.wired.com/story/google...

DHS insisting that the identities of law enforcement officers remain secret—what you might call secret police.

#BREAKING UK minister slams Israel's approval of new settlements as 'deliberate obstacle' to Palestinian state

Christ

In Australia they call this what it is - wage theft. Don’t pussy foot around the shameful truth of companies ripping off workers. “Pizza Express, British Airways and Lidl named for failing to pay minimum wage to some staff’. news.sky.com/story/money-...

President Trump lashed out at a reporter who asked him about "TACO," short for Trump Always Chickens Out, a term that has been used to describe how markets tumble on Trump's tariff threats, then rebound when he gives way. Read more: nyti.ms/3HeQG9T

Fascinating interviews with Russian journalists who never emigrated and stuck with the profession. Their harsh criticisms of the exiled independent press are profound — a real gut punch. Russian & Western audiences seem to have completely opposite demands & expectations. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Academics already know about this problem. They’ve seen imaginary articles and books by them listed in AI generated “reports.” The author’s names are real. The rest isn’t.

Officials in Yemen say an Israeli attack on Sanaa airport has destroyed the last passenger plane operated by the country’s main airline, Yemenia Airways.

My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US. First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

"I am completely fine with some universities collapsing" = "I am completely fine with the local economies of some former industrial towns collapsing"

If only Jake Tapper had the means to relay all this information to the public prior to Biden's selection as the candidate.

Hadn’t looked at these numbers since about 2020. And… wowser. on.ft.com/3FndMKU The lessons from China’s dominance in manufacturing

Lawyers for the families of 29 military and civilian intelligence specialists who were killed when an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 have said they will “consider all legal options” to find out how their relatives died. rozenberg.substack.com/p/chinook-fa...

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

If a former Israeli PM can say this, I think it’s legit to criticize what’s going on without being labeled anti-Israel.

Farage: "Lucy Connolly should not be in prison... Understand, there were millions of mothers at that moment in time after Southport feeling exactly the same way. Connolly was imprisoned because she posted: “Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards… if that makes me racist so be it.”

Farage claimed in his speech today that he would raise £65 *billion* by cutting climate policies, DEI schemes, and ‘Quangos’. He’s not running a serious operation and every political journalist in the country has a public duty to shout that from the rooftops

v good piece, this, worth a read

The Kremlin celebrates. “According to the confidential paper, EU sanctions commissioner David O'Sullivan laments the complete breakdown of transatlantic coordination on sanctions evasion. There is “no more joint outreach”.” www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/eu-u...

Democracy isn't dying quietly. It’s being suffocated, by noise, lies, distraction, and systems that profit from confusion. But we’re not here to mourn it. We’re here to fight for what comes next.

Immigration: @zoejardiniere.bsky.social & I debate Matt Goodwin and Nadim Zahawi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbQ...

In USA the Cato Institute, supposedly in favour of free markets, comes out against attack on Harvard. But seems OK with Trump running a command economy where he tells Apple how to run their business & doles out money and protection only to firms who pay him off. Careful what U wish for, rightists!

The gulf between what London is actually like & how it is portrayed by terminally online, self-styled ‘patriots’ & their political heroes is absolutely incredible. I wonder how much it has to do with the city repeatedly electing a Muslim mayor… www.timeout.com/london/news/...

At some point, in the fullness of time, the US is going to need some kind of grand commission on the constitution, to work out what the hell has happened and how to put it right

Things are getting more awful.

Here's a long thread of *verified* civilians trapped and hungry in Gaza. Their accounts are constantly deleted, so I'm linking to direct pages. Please give, repost, and find others to help. Most on Bluesky are real people in desperate need, and we’re their only lifeline. I'll post more next week.