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My first Point Zero Forum (certainly not my last if I have any say in the matter[1]) provides a great deal of content for the SockTech Index™[2]:

When Javier Milei first popped up, he looked like another libertarian grifter with an amusing haircut[1] and a chainsaw gimmick. This was not improved, at least from my perspective, by an emerging relationship with the Chabad movement[2], featuring visits to the grave of the late[3] Lubavitcher Rebbe.

H/T to Margeret Heath for sending me this absolutely fascinating paper by paper by Google DeepMind's Alexander Lerchner. However, as it is, for some reason, written in opaque academic gobbledegook, I took the opportunity to get MS Co-Pilot (not Gemini, because Google knows far too much about me already, more about that anon) to walk me through it in clear English, which it did extremely well. The essential takeaways (you can see some excellent analysis here from Adam Widawski

In which ComputerWeekly.com jauntily kicks the tyres on the sovereignty claims of "hyperscalers"[1]:

The supremely diplomatic[1] Riccardo Tordera-Ricchi did a sterling[2] job introducing "Nigel Farage's Number Two" to we payments industry hoi polloi. Robert Courtneidge's excellent write-up (see https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-courtneidge-154727_excel-payments-fintech-activity-7442895029666336768-9T-J?) is a great and equally tactful summary of the key takeaways[3].