if you don’t pick D i fundamentally don’t trust you

I have noticed that colleagues, who have learned Chinese to a high standard and who have spent considerable time living and working in China, tend to be much more critical of the Chinese political system then western expats who simply rely on China for their income /1

"What if wealth is not LED lights?"

US: My AI is smarter and better at complex reasoning ☺️☝️ China: China my AI is just as good and more efficient, using less compute to do the same tasks -- and it's open source too 🤬😡 Mongolia: 🐎🗣️💪

I love ride share apps. They’re the first time in most American’s lives they are exposed to anything like the true costs of driving and able to compare it rationally to other modes. Driving is staggeringly expensive for cities and individuals; even with a century of hegemony.

they should do this to people who don’t wear deodorant with aluminum in public

The real question facing the admin is if they lay off all the State Dept employees, who will be left to write sassy parody policy memos?

Ezra Klein Derangement Syndrome (EKDS) is real and rampant on the left

fyi 👇👇👇

if you’re not wearing the deodorant with aluminum in it, KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON AT PRIDE.

https://t.co/GuBhNrAFjL

Old people are crazy because I'm in Hong Kong and my mom is insisting on hailing a cab instead of calling an Uber

This is actual US policy rn

https://t.co/WYGipCvZNl

Critical support to the Chinese people in their fight against Mongol domination -- mostly so that weird ass imperial names like 阿剌吉八 (a la ji ba) and 图帖睦尔 (tu tie mu er) are replaced by simple two or three-character Chinese ones in the Ming Dynasty

the Trans Pacific Partnership was good and I’m tired of people pretending it was not

White boy obsessed with Japan vs white boy obsessed with China is one of the most important distinctions of the 21st century

It’s actually a huge whitepill that Grok - trained to be “maximally truth seeking” with one hundred billion dollars and no RLHF post tweaking - ended up as a garden variety neoliberal wine mom. It means that this ideology, against all known human knowledge, is objectively correct

The plan? Require weekly mandatory paperwork to increase government efficiency