Belgium restored nuclear power output Belgium’s two remaining nuclear reactors are back online, restoring 2GW of reliable power after months shut down. Under Bart De Wever, the government has also scrapped the nuclear phase-out law and lifted the ban on new reactors. Concrete action to reverse the damage inflicted by energy-illiterate fools. Germany threw away more than 20GW of nuclear capacity under Merkel, enough to supply roughly 30% of its electricity. Not just IMHO, 8GW can still be recovered at minimum cost and in short order. Merz must halt dismantling and launch a serious programme to restore capacity - asap. Removed equipment can be replaced. Political paralysis is a choice. That’s the difference between De Wever’s pragmatism and Merz’s catastrophic inability to correct past energy mistakes quickly and decisively, even with a highly capable Katherina Reiche as energy minister. Well done, @Bart_DeWever and team. @_FriedrichMerz @BMWE_

French PM Puts Telecoms On Alert For Nationwide Social Media Blackout As Far-Left Riots Spiral zerohedge.com/political/fran…

Avoid Berlin like cancer. Europe’s largest residential landlord Vonovia stands to lose more than €8bn from nationalisation plans in Berlin, as the prospective governing parties of the city discuss the socialisation of 140,000 apartments. The leftwing Die Linke, winner of the September state election, has agreed to coalition talks with the Social Democrats and the Greens over plans to transfer large apartment portfolios into public ownership in an effort to bring down rents in the capital. The proposal, which foresees compensation far below market values, could impose losses of more than €11bn on four major property companies relative to the levels at which the properties are held in their books, according to FT calculations.

The Paris police have advised shopkeepers to hire private security ahead of tomorrow’s large street protests and expected looting. They say they can’t be everywhere

中国土耳其骂战的起因是这样的，中共网军AI假账号这一两个月以来大规模冒充日本、泰国、法国、韩国、印度，巴西和土耳其人用种族歧视的言论互相辱骂，试图让世界各国网民增加对日本的仇恨，然而土耳其发现了中国方面的阴谋诡计忍受不住，所以才有了现在的土耳其网民全面反击，请扩散

Absolutely incredible. For the first time since 2013, France's 10Y Government Bond yield has risen above the US 10Y Note Yield. That's +550 basis points since the low seen in 2020. Borrowing costs are skyrocketing in France.

Gold - Again, this isn't an 'I told you so' post, but just because it's going down & following my forecast, I won't stop providing updates (I have new followers every day). Many of you are angry, but it's a lesson to trust the TA weight of evidence. Stackers won't care anyway 🙂

You won't believe what Britain just did. Police ARRESTED a 15 year old boy at his house. The suspected crime? He had criticized and ridiculed a politician on social media. Orwellian Britain is arresting children for criticizing politicians on the internet now. Remember, around 12.000 people are arrested every year in Britain for social media posts and other electronic communications. Britain is not a free country anymore.

Researchers proved every LLM is secretly obsessed with Japan. And they finally figured out why. They published a paper investigating hidden cultural biases in large language models. they tested 31,000 questions across 24 different languages on models like gemini, chatgpt, claude, and llama. they stripped out all geographic hints and just asked the models to pick a place and answer. the finding was universal.. across a wide range of models and languages, there is a pervasive "obsession" with japanese culture. even when you prompt them in a language with zero ties to japan, they default to japanese norms, values, and aesthetics at a disproportionately high rate compared to its actual global demographic weight. the craziest part? they tracked down exactly when the ai develops this obsession.. and it is not from reading the raw internet. during pre-training, the models actually have a fairly balanced, global view of the world. the obsession gets injected during the safety phase. when tech companies fine-tune these models to be "helpful, harmless, and polite," the ai starts mapping those corporate safety guidelines directly onto japanese cultural concepts. in the pursuit of creating the perfect, inoffensive, compliant assistant, they warped how the models view the world. the quantization process (compressing models to run faster locally) actually amplifies this determinism. the smaller and faster your local model is, the more stereotypically it behaves, causing japanese cultural tropes to spike hard. we spend all this time worrying about existential ai safety, but the real alignment problem is that our most advanced reasoning engines are hyper-fixated on japanese internet culture. every model upgrade is reinforcing an invisible regional bias that dictates how they generate stories, facts, and code. the cultural commonsense of the internet is not universal.. it’s just localized to whatever the heaviest reddit and anime wiki users were obsessed with.

The US affordability crisis is worsening: Food prices have surged +34.5% since December 2019, now at their highest level on record. Rent and grocery prices have risen +33.3% and +30.0%, respectively. Furthermore, motor vehicle maintenance and repair prices have soared +55.2% over the same period. Meanwhile, prices for services excluding rent, including medical care, transportation, education, communication, and recreation, have increased +29.2% since December 2019. As a result, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen +30.4%. Basic necessities are becoming increasingly unaffordable in the US.

🚨BREAKING: PM Giorgia Meloni has revealed that around 50% of those arrested for rioting in Italy are foreigners This is worse than anyone thought, and proves it's not about education. Macron must publish the same data.