Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the government 'will do everything we possibly can' to avoid a repeat of scenes witnessed in Leixlip this week, where first-time house buyers slept in their cars overnight in a bid to get a home.

Homology is a fundamental concept in algebraic topology. It allows you to quantify how many holes a space has. When I first learned it, however, it was very mystifying. It took me years to understand the intuitions behind it. In this thread, I wanted to share this intuition at a very high level. Homology, a very short primer - a 🧵

In America, you can just do things 🇺🇸

All those critiquing @elonmusk (rightly so) should begin by questioning those calling him a “genius” or even a “tech bro”. He invented NONE of the TECH. Just bought stuff at the right time. More marketing than science. He’s benefitted by billions of government dollars that he questions when given to others. Clear regressive political agenda: underfund government (even more) hoping that deregulation and a weak state can make outer space his playground & sling mud like a child at all progressive politicians like @Keir_Starmer. I wrote about this more than a decade ago in my book The Entrepreneurial State.