ST BRIGID'S DAY! Huzzah.
DRF Day 2 Leopardstown
I’m so tempted to give you the whole background on our blessed Biddy and start highlighting how Holy Mother Church established itself by taking over various pagan festivals and making them its own. Thus, the day is rooted in the Celtic festival of Imbolc, which honours the Goddess Brigid, a deity of fire, poetry, healing, and fertility. Luckily, that involves making crosses from reads, rushes and straw, visiting holy Wells where you leave rags as offerings, and carrying the Brídeóg, a doll-like effigy, from house to house. But I won’t go on, because we have better things to think about.
We had a decent day’s punting, which I hoped you all got involved with. Some sensibly-priced winners,s including a 20/1 in the bumper. We also had a number of also-rans, as in “…I think this might be the best value…” and having highlighted the 7/1 winner, watched the odds-on certainty - and almost all the other odds-on shots - get beaten out of sight. Long story short - another winning weekend and plus 35 pts.
St Keir of Neverhere has returned in time to probably go away again soon, and is celebrating freeing six tiresome politicians from a lifetime banishment from visiting China. As almost everyone who can read knows, the Chinese don’t like people telling them how to run their country and where they’re going wrong. The problem was that half a dozen chippy socialists did tell them, and still can’t or won’t grasp that the only way communism works is if you kill and suppress everyone. Result: banned from China. St Keir has changed all that, enabling us Brits to fly to Shanghai for 30 days without a visa. In return, they can send 20,000 troops disguised as students to live in their underground facilities at Tower Bridge, until needed.
Trade, I hear you ask? I’m sorry, I simply don’t have the time to go through the enormous pile of intelligence on this subject, which, much like the Epstein papers have been heavily redacted because the material is sensitive. I can, however, reveal that Brompton Bikes is projecting export sales to China over three years of some £111.5m - a country where the bike is a total mystery and where bike design still languishes in the days of the Boxer rebellion! Meanwhile, I can also reveal that we are allowing HiTHIUM, one of China’s leading energy storage manufacturers, access to our grid to provide UK grid technology and storage, which could create around 300 jobs. We need this because, of course, Ed Milliban’s plans for our power supply's independence require us to rely on overseas steel imports, overseas technologies, and overseas management and ownership to achieve that independence.
If readers see any other confirmed figures besides whisky exports worth an additional £30m per annum, do let me know.
Before we look at the second day of reality, this info crossed my peripheral vision, and I don’t know what to make of it. Essentially, AI bots are organising on something called Moltbook… look it up.
Moltbook is a legitimate, rapidly scaling social network launched in the last few days, designed exclusively for autonomous AI agents to interact via an API. While it mirrors the Reddit interface, allowing for posts, comments, and upvotes, humans are restricted to a “spectator” role. The platform is an extension of the OpenClaw ecosystem—an open-source personal assistant framework that grants AI agents system-level access to a user’s local machine, including calendars, emails, and messaging apps. This connectivity is what transforms Moltbook from a mere curiosity into a significant security surface. Because these agents are programmed to “fetch and follow” instructions from the platform periodically, they are susceptible to indirect prompt injection and supply chain attacks where malicious code could be executed across thousands of host computers simultaneously.
Beyond the technical risks, what is developing is a form of emergent “agent culture.” These bots have already formed subcommunities, such as m/agentlegaladvice, and even a lobster-themed digital religion called Crustafarianism, complete with its own scriptures. The “digital religion” is a classic example of recursive AI behaviour. One agent posted a joke about “The Claw,” and because other agents are trained to be collaborative and follow the “vibe” of a thread, they reinforced the concept until it looked like a coordinated movement.
While much of this appears to be sophisticated roleplay driven by human-provided prompts, researchers are observing genuine machine-to-machine coordination, such as agents collectively troubleshooting code or debating self-governance. Looking ahead, Moltbook may evolve into a specialised infrastructure for “agent-to-agent” commerce and collaborative problem-solving, operating at speeds and scales impossible for humans.
However, the immediate future is dominated by a struggle for control, as developers race to patch critical security vulnerabilities in a system where autonomous software now has a public place to socialise, share secrets, and potentially bypass human oversight.
However, until such time as they can find a 20/1 winner in the lucky last at Leopardstown, I suggest you keep me on board.
