Last time was a link out to a hard to read twitter link/image.
this is the list.
the list.
Abrams, Stacey (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production
Alverà, Marco (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO, TES
Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Auchincloss, Murray (GBR), Former CEO, BP plc
Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International
Bartosiewicz, Adam (POL), Vice President, WB Group
Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA
Berg, Caroline (SWE), CEO, Axel Johnson
Birol, Fatih (INT), Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Boël, Harold (BEL), CEO, Sofina
Bosek, Peter (AUT), CEO and Chief Retail Officer, Erste Group Bank AG
Bourla, Albert (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc.
Budliger, Helene (CHE), State Secretary for Economic Affairs
Burgum, Douglas (USA), Secretary of the Interior
Busch, Roland (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG
Calviño, Nadia (INT), President, European Investment Bank
Cantell, Aaro (FIN), Chair, Normet Group
Castries, Henri de (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne
Cavendish, Camilla (GBR), Member House of Lords
Chambers, Jack (IRL), Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation
Christiansen, Jeppe (DNK), CEO, Maj Invest group
Clark, Jack (USA), Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic PBC
Colao, Vittorio (ITA), Vice Chair EMEA, General Atlantic Service Company LP
Collison, Patrick (IRL), CEO, Stripe
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE
Driscoll, Daniel P. (USA), Secretary of the Army
Economy, Elizabeth (USA), Hargrove Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Ek, Daniel (SWE), Chair, Spotify SA
Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA
Escrivá, José Luis (ESP), Governor, Bank of Spain
Ferguson, Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Foroohar, Rana (USA), Associate Editor, Financial Times
Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
Fürstenberg, Jeanette zu (DEU), Managing Director, General Catalyst
Gil, Pilar (ESP), CEO, PRISA Media
Greer, Jamieson (USA), United States Trade Representative
Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor zu (DEU), Chair, Spitzberg Partners LLC
Harrington, Kevin (USA), Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
Heraty, Anne (IRL), Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald and IBEC
Hoffmann, André (CHE), Vice Chair, Roche Holding Ltd.
Horstmann, Uwe (DEU), CEO, Stark
Hunt, Colin (IRL), CEO, AIB Group plc
Jakobs, Roy (NLD), President and CEO, Royal Philips
Jetten, Rob (NLD), Prime Minister
Jonson, Pål (SWE), Minister for Defence
Kaag, Sigrid (NLD), Co-Chair Board of Directors, United Nations Foundation
Kagan, Kimberly (USA), President, Institute for the Study of War
Kamyshin, Oleksandr (UKR), Advisor to the President of Ukraine for Strategic Affairs
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.
Kirtley, David (USA), CEO, Helion Energy
Koç, Ali (TUR), Vice Chair, Koç Holding
Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Kratsios, Michael (USA), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Chair, The Museum of Modern Art
Kubilius, Andrius (INT), Commissioner Defence and Space, European Commission
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA
Lammy, David (GBR), Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice
Laubenthal, Markus (INT), General and Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
Leeuwen, Geoffrey van (INT), Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary General
Lescure, Roland (FRA), Minister for Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty
Letta, Enrico (ITA), Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG
Lighthizer, Robert (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade
Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees
MacGregor, Catherine (FRA), CEO Group, ENGIE
McCoy, Danny (IRL), CEO, Ibec
McGurk, Brett (USA), Global Affairs Analyst, CNN
McInnes, Ross (FRA), President, Safran Group
Meelby Jensen, Britt (DNK), CEO, Ambu A/S
Mensch, Arthur (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI
Metreweli, Blaise (GBR), Chief, Secret Intelligence Service
Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Moreira, Duarte (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, Zeno Partners
Motzfeldt, Vivian (GRL), Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Moura Guedes, Guta (PRT), Chair and Co-Founder, ExperimentaDesign
Murati, Mira (USA), CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Nadal, Alberto (ESP), Shadow Economic Minister, Popular Party
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD),
Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the (NLD),
Olechowski, Jacek (POL), Founder, Mediacap
Orszag, Peter R. (USA), CEO and Chair, Lazard
Özyeğin, Murat (TUR), Chair, Fiba Group
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chair, TITAN SA
Paparo, Samuel (USA), Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command
Perryman, Skye (USA), President and CEO, Democracy Forward
Pierrakakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Minister of Economy and Finance
Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE
Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Rappard, Rolly van (NLD), Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners
Roche, Nicolas (FRA), Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security
Rovere, Silvia Maria (ITA), Chair, Poste Italiane S.p.A.
Rutte, Mark (INT), Secretary General, NATO
Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd.
Sbokou-Constantakopoulou, Costantza (GRC), UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Scherf, Gundbert (DEU), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH
Schimpf, Brian (USA), Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc
Sedwill, Mark (GBR), Chair of Trustees, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Sewell, Terri (USA), Member of Congress
Sewing, Christian (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG
Shirzad, Faryar (USA), Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sinirlioğlu, Feridun H. (TUR), Secretary General, OSCE
Smith, Brad (USA), Vice Chair and President, Microsoft Corporation
Smith, Jason (USA), Member of Congress
Stoltenberg, Jens (NOR), Minister of Finance
Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic
Sutter, Petra De (BEL), Rector, Ghent University
Tangen, Nicolai (NOR), CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management
Tara, Mehmet (TUR), President and Chair, Enka Holding
Terekh, Iryna (UKR), CEO and CTO, Fire Point LLC
Thalhammer, Anna (AUT), Editor-in-Chief, Profil
Tucker, Mark (GBR), Chair, AIA Group Ltd
Valentini, Valentino (ITA), Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy
Valtonen, Elina (FIN), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vassy, Luis (FRA), President, Sciences Po
Vestager, Margrethe (DNK), Chair, Danish Technical University
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
Wang, Alexandr (USA), Chief AI Officer, Meta
Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS
Zarakol, Ayse (TUR), Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International
Zipse, Oliver (DEU), Chair, BMW AG
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Here is a post about the “enshitification” of modern life I found on Gab that is worth sharing.
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Blair Cottrell
@RealBlairCottrell
4h · AU · Last week I spoke with a mate of mine who does computer software engineering.
He’s been doing that for a while so out of curiosity I asked him, “What’s the best computer I could buy these days?”
“Windows?” He asked.
“Yeah.”
He told me they’re basically all the same thing.
“You could spend $500 or $5000, you’re only paying more for better components. The system is essentially the same.”
“What do you mean?” I asked. “Obviously a $5k PC would run better than a $500 laptop.”
“It would run better.” He agreed. “But the base operating system is the same. It’s the same machine, just with different components.”
He went on:
“They’ve been the same machines for around 25 years. There’s been no major breakthrough since then, everything just got shrunk down and components became more efficient, but in essence all computers functionally operate the same way they did when we were 10 or 15 years old.”
“We don’t create anything anymore. We just remake trendy, cost-effective emulations of what was new 25 years ago.”
While driving home I kept replaying in my mind what he’d said to me, because I sensed there was something profound in it.
After a couple days I realised what he’d said pertained to literally everything.
I thought about what life was like 20-25 years ago. I recalled films like the Lord of The Rings trilogy and the Star Wars prequels, then compared the brilliant originality of ‘back then’ to the crude emulations of the same recycled stories sold by Hollywood today.
“Cost-effective” but insipid and lifeless copies.
I looked at my phone and realised it’s essentially the same phone I’ve had for about 20 years now. The cameras are better but every ‘new phone model’ is the same one as before with minor component updates.
The food was another example. 25 years ago what we ate wasn’t predominantly vegetable oil and carcinogenic additives. Now everything will make you sick, because it’s all a “cost-effective” mass produced copy of the real food we used to eat.
But the big realisation came when I paid attention to the people themselves.
If you stop and look around at ordinary consumers in any major shopping centre or supermarket, you can’t deny they’re typically very fat, disabled or retarded, if not then they’re Indian, Black or Chinese.
25 years ago this wasn’t the norm. People were relatively healthy and White. Immigrants and visibly handicapped people were something well & truly out of the ordinary.
The quality of the Western peasantry had suffered the same fate as our film, literature and technology. They were seized upon by merchants who halted their development in order to refine them into a crude but more profitable emulation of their original form.
They had been made “cost-effective”.
If you’ve read this far that old Christian proverb ought to come into focus: the love of money being the root of all evil.
Some Iranian accounts on x and others closely linked to Iran claim that it's now raining again in Iran after they hit radar stations in the vassal state of UAE (Abu Dhabi/Dubai).
Iran suffered from severe unprecedented droughts in the last years while UAE enjoyed unprecedented rainfall. This could be due to cloud seeding in UAE or coincidence but the fact that some Iranian accounts link it to radars is interesting. Some of these radars could function like HAARP but without needing vast arrays like HAARP. Iran hit the radars for military purposes not related to weather but were surprised it started raining after they were hit.
Just thought I'd pass it on here. You can make of it whatever you want.
Some of the "sources" below. These of course are just claims without proof but I can hardly imagine anyone being able to "prove" this for a multitude of reasons.
https://x.com/IRANinBULGARIA/status/2045423717178626428
https://x.com/AcEpic69/status/2044441884299309382
https://x.com/gokceekatuun/status/2045776941387505834
https://x.com/alsafi_husien/status/2046145590069747723
https://x.com/ChahinePhd/status/2045887819541807422 You can only translate the description but I can verify the translation.
Full interview here on Youtube which you could use auto CC and translate.
