UK senior cybersecurity engineer focused on the financial and gov sectors.
Chokepoint Technologies
At 5:21pm on a Friday in June, Washington reached across the Atlantic and switched off two of the most capable machines on earth. AI was created in England, but America commercialised it. Britain helped invent the architecture of parallel computing, then sold it. We must own every part of the chain.
Where Others Fear To Tread
The government obtained a super-injunction against itself. Not to protect national security. To suppress the fact a spreadsheet containing 18,700 Afghan allies' identities had been leaked to the wrong people. The data regulator declined to investigate. Parliament was excluded. Forty-nine died.
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Britain once built world-class advanced microchips. We chose to stop. Now every hospital scanner, every train signal, every military system depends on factories 6,000 miles away—factories a single crisis could silence. The chip is the new coal. And we import nearly all of it.
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Two hours, forty-six minutes. That's how long it took two bored developers to turn the UK Parliament's data feed into something which doesn't suck. Today the Restorationist™ releases the first vomit draft of its bill browsing app, to anyone, free and open source. You may not like the content.
A Sovereign AI Parliament
You already live in a direct democracy because the Internet established it. You just haven't been told. Every hour, millions render verdicts no MP can hear on social media. The machinery of consent has outpaced the machinery of power. What remains is a choice: formalise it, or watch it rot.
Zero Tolerance Of Evil
Chinese hackers spent over a year inside Britain's electoral regulator, accessing millions of voter records. No one resigned. The fine was a reprimand. Parliament still doesn't know what was changed. Why did this not end careers? MPs aggressive plans to implement Digital ID are dangerous.
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The UK is yet again falling behind in the technology race, left with clunky silicon machines consuming energy by the megawatt. The next generation of AI computing completely reinvents the physics with light and thermodynamics to break through the von Neumann bottleneck.
A Reimagined Heath System
The NHS monopoly isn’t socialism—it’s stagnation. Energy comes from non-profit Dutch-style competition: universal hi-tech free care but chosen by patients. Fifty providers, one budget, your freedom. Competition without price-gouging insurance cartels, but with their ruthless efficiency.
Speak Your Mind Clearly
Digital ID isn't merely a cybersecurity catastrophe waiting to happen. It will do nothing to stop illegal immigration or illegal working, but will be abused as a political mechanism to revoke access to everyday things ordinary people need. As always, the cure is yet again worse than the disease.