@Scholars_Stage T. Greer

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Social category influence countries 15.65% finance 5.22% travel destinations 2.61% stocks 1.74% technology brands 1.74% celebrities 1.74% automotive brands 1.74%

Social topic influence american 6.96%, the first 6.09%, china 5.22%, if you 4.35%, ai 4.35%, taiwan #419, books 4.35%, to the 4.35%, met 4.35%, food 3.48%

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The whole point is that one must experience the thing to really get the emotional or intellectual payoff. Many novels are similar to this--they are designed less as a treatise than as an experience. A moral journey one might say. I do not know how well the essay lands on those who never took that journey. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015348053654327528 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015348053654327528"
X Link 2026-01-25T08:56Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@gwern But if you have taken the journey I think you will find the essay very valuable-- it will provide with you with a visceral set of associations and intuitions that will click into place the behavior of many people you have met or see tweeting about AI every day. /FIN"
X Link 2026-01-25T09:00Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"It is possible to make food as good as your local Thai place or Nandos or Five Guys or Panera or whatever and it is possible in most cases to do it in under an half an hourbut most people it seems never learn how"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:16Z 51.6K followers, 2M engagements

"Net positive. We need to rebuild the entire industrial ecosystemevery factory built makes other factories easier to build and staff. (And if we are worried about times of war who owns the factory will matter less than where it is). Chinas manufacturing prowess will force the US to grapple with this question: Is a Chinese-owned plant in the US that lowers prices and boosts the competitiveness of exports at the expense of an American-owned business a net positive or negative https://t.co/BzHdRpLcrV Chinas manufacturing prowess will force the US to grapple with this question: Is a Chinese-owned"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:15Z 51.6K followers, 296.3K engagements

"Looking at responses to this I am seeing a misconception. The quarantine scenario is not worrisome because it is sufficient convince the Taiwanese to capitulatethe Cuban Missile Crisis did not force the Cubans to get rid of communism after allbut because it will might convince the Americans to capitulate as was true for the USSR. This then would political ramifications in Taiwan and the region writ large. For many years I have told people that the Taiwan scenario I am most worried looks less like an invasion and more like the Cuban Missile Crisis This WOTR essay provides one picture of what"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:55Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"An 8% is very impressive and it is matched by the lowest unemployment rate in decades. But I am wary about drawing policy lessons from a AI-powered demand boom that policy did not create. De-risking works Taiwans GDP increased by 8.63% in [----] up from 5.27% in [----]. Since [----] China has used heavy coercive tactics against Taiwan. Taiwanese invested domestically and SEA supply chain after cutting their losses in China unlike Europe (UK and Germany) https://t.co/3oAvmjzzUA De-risking works Taiwans GDP increased by 8.63% in [----] up from 5.27% in [----]. Since [----] China has used heavy coercive"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:55Z 51.7K followers, 15.8K engagements

"In other words this is not because people are too tired or overwhelmed to make their own food. It is because they suck at cookingand want to eat something better than they can make themselves"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:12Z 51.7K followers, 47.8K engagements

"Fast casual was not really a market in [----] and the only places that offer delivery were Dominoes and Pizza Hut. You can only eat pizza so many times in a week"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:14Z 51.6K followers, 106.1K engagements

"@lymanstoneky @Birdyword Chicken. Key thing IMHO was new funding mechanisms that allowed places like Five Guys to turn into franchises with ease"
X Link 2026-02-02T01:22Z 51.7K followers, [---] engagements

"You can characterize the two faces in institutional terms historical terms and even cultural terms. But I think a lot of the way people get angry at each other for mischaracterizing the Chinese system comes from focusing on the different faces"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:00Z 51.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Those who focus on the first face--the face that is focused on economic development--can correctly state that the over-riding telos of the Party is grand achievement in this domain and this has true for many decades now. Most of the machinery of state is devoted towards it"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:00Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I am getting so much push back on this claim and I don't get it. Look here are the last two dinners I made both which were prepared in this time and were as good as anything we would have gotten from doordash in that [--] minute timeframe:"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:35Z 51.7K followers, 106.3K engagements

"What I like about both of these books is that they don't just provide recipes but lay out principles for cooking. Those principles will help you 1) cook at restaurant level--huge flavor returns to using heat and salt well"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:35Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@1rosieleft thank you This so obviously true but people do not want to accept it"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:50Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"What do my followers think of this idea My proposal would be to have the US Navy begin commissioning and operating nuclear reactors on land INCONUS. We could get [--] GW nuclear from [--] Ford-Class carriers. Yeah it would be weird to have naval officers stationed in Dubuque but energy is approaching a national My proposal would be to have the US Navy begin commissioning and operating nuclear reactors on land INCONUS. We could get [--] GW nuclear from [--] Ford-Class carriers. Yeah it would be weird to have naval officers stationed in Dubuque but energy is approaching a national"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:28Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I think the aughts were the critical transition decade in this story. Now the salient distinction is often strivers vs slackers not jocks vs nerds. At my school the "smart" kids were also popular and on varsity sports teams. The captain of the football team was a straight-A student and attended MIT after graduation. The worst students are totally disengaged and don't do sports. This 80's movie trope is wrong. At my school the "smart" kids were also popular and on varsity sports teams. The captain of the football team was a straight-A student and attended MIT after graduation. The worst"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:03Z 51.6K followers, 120.9K engagements

"Yes. The list is even longer if you extend it a decade earlier. Those who lived in Reaganite Southern Cali and watched it decline to its present statebig part of the MAGA leadership story. Stephen Miller Chris Rufo Lomez John McEntee Claremont Institute leadership Michael Anton Harmeet Dhillon just about every online "pronatalist" a couple of New Founding partners. All of these people were born between 1970-1994 and raised in California. Think about that. Stephen Miller Chris Rufo Lomez John McEntee Claremont Institute leadership Michael Anton Harmeet Dhillon just about every online"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:10Z 51.6K followers, 27.9K engagements

"The Eileen Gu thing is interesting because it is just obvious at the gut-level to most people that she is a traitor to the American nation but not at all obvious at the gut-level to a smaller group of people and there is no way to reason your way from one camp to the other"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:36Z 51.6K followers, 33.4K engagements

"My trust in that person immediately disappeared and has never recovered"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:43Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Either this sort of reaction makes instinctive sense to you or it does not. I don't think you can persuade or cajole people into it. Either you identify with your nation--its failures shames success and glories--or you do not"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:43Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@Andrew_Semenza @friedmandave"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:50Z 51.6K followers, [---] engagements

"For many years I have told people that the Taiwan scenario I am most worried looks less like an invasion and more like the Cuban Missile Crisis This WOTR essay provides one picture of what that might look like https://warontherocks.com/2026/02/deterrence-wont-fail-in-the-taiwan-strait-it-will-be-bypassed/ https://warontherocks.com/2026/02/deterrence-wont-fail-in-the-taiwan-strait-it-will-be-bypassed/"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:00Z 51.6K followers, 34.3K engagements

"I suspect this is least defensible if we never really quite get super-intelligence just very powerful but very limited intelligence. That is what we have now. But if you are a real believer in the trend lines. why bother learning the current tools when they will bare as little resemblance to tomorrow's technology as ChatGPT-3 does to Claude Code I do loathe all the stuff about how you have to use AI or you're going to be left behind. If it's going to be that disruptive then there's probably not much that you can do. And also there's no skill involved in using it. There's no learning curve."
X Link 2026-02-15T00:42Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"2. There is an extremely noticeable shift around 2017-18 where all of the characters shift towards woker viewpoints and plot topics focus on the things like the problems ICE causes for the SVU detectives. What had been maybe a gradual tilt leftwards becomes a drastic lurch"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:38Z 51.6K followers, 1.7M engagements

"woke-er (Side note inspired by this observation: perhaps conservatives underestimate the extent to which the leftist tilt of modern America was born in visceral reaction to Trump. A world where Hillary won is one less culturally leftist than we have now)"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:41Z 51.6K followers, 1.6M engagements

"3. There are a series of episodes about racial relations and cop violence between 2013-2016 but they are fairly ambiguous as sympathetic to the cops as the other side. The earliest episode of this sort is from the early seasons"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:44Z 51.6K followers, 1.4M engagements

"Despite taking place in NYC few episodes 2002-2004 center on either 9/11 or the broader GWOT. You start to see episodes where veterans and their spouses are important parts of the show around 2006"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:47Z 51.6K followers, 1.3M engagements

"There is however an episode about Taliban honor killings that aired before 9/11"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:47Z 51.6K followers, 1.2M engagements

"Before the Great Recession wealthy people are just as likely and perhaps even more likely to be victims as they are to be the criminals. There is one episode where a poor man rapes a woman because she is rich"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:50Z 51.6K followers, 1.2M engagements

"After the Great Recession there is a clear shift in the way the wealthy are portrayed. They are much more likely to be entitled rapists who either try to use their wealth to shield themselves from justice or who feel entitled to acts of wrongdoing"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:51Z 51.6K followers, 1.1M engagements

"This suggests to me that we underestimate how important the Great Recession was for preparing America for the entire discourse around privilege that thought complex was old the widespread conviction that America is rigged for the benefit of an unaccountable few less so"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:54Z 51.6K followers, 1M engagements

"6. A common plot question between [----] and about [----] or so is the question of whether or not rapists can claim their DNA/brain made them that way. There is usually one episode person season where someone tries to use this as a legal defense"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:57Z 51.6K followers, 898.3K engagements

"Was this a major debate that I have memory holed The fact it disappears after this point suggests the public forgot or got tired of the issue"
X Link 2024-05-14T23:59Z 51.6K followers, 821.8K engagements

"7. Up until [----] or so the show has an implicit pro-life bias. Rapists want women to abort the babies they have sired; the main character is a child of rape and women are portrayed regretting or being transitioned by abortions"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:10Z 51.6K followers, 771.6K engagements

"Pro-choice viewpoints are shown and defended but when the good guys are given a choice they choose life"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:10Z 51.6K followers, 723.1K engagements

"8. In the early seasons of the show the prostitutes depicted were usually trashy. They were often street hookers. Many were old. Many were transgender. In the newer seasons prostitutes are beautiful and traditionally attractive and often classy in dress and speech"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:16Z 51.6K followers, 684.1K engagements

"9. On the transgender noteone detective in the first or second episode of the show calls one of these prostitutes a tranny. Transgender individuals in later seasons are rarely sex workers and are never referred to with words like these"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:20Z 51.6K followers, 649.3K engagements

"On this issue more than any other SVU probably tracks general liberal social norms. In the early 2010s transgender transitions debated; by the late 2010s they are assumed good with anti-transition attitudes linked directly to crimes and people who grew up with no diversity"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:23Z 51.6K followers, 600.6K engagements

"9. Religion is a bigger deal in the aughts. The most prominent religion is Catholicism. This is partially because one of the main characters in this era was a devout Catholic but generally speaking the reverence the show has for Catholicism vs other faiths is notable"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:26Z 51.6K followers, 577.5K engagements

"If evangelical or Jewish leaders are implicated in a sex crime this is treated as just another peep; when a Catholic clergyman is involved it is treated as a real break in the natural order"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:28Z 51.6K followers, 549K engagements

"Along with this is a reoccurring plot device that occurs often in the first decade of the show: the priest who knows about a crime through confession but cannot reveal it. One feels like the main writers must come from a Catholic background themselves"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:29Z 51.6K followers, 528.2K engagements

"No the show writers clearly have more respect for Catholicism than other religious traditions. They feel betrayal when the Catholic preists dont live up to their vows; they sorta expect the evangelicals to fail in this way. https://x.com/NArcheofuturist/status/1790540459242090938 @Scholars_Stage Could also just be ye olde American Anti-Catholicism https://x.com/NArcheofuturist/status/1790540459242090938 @Scholars_Stage Could also just be ye olde American Anti-Catholicism"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:35Z 51.6K followers, 888.8K engagements

"noticed a typo a few tweets above: women are portrayed pre-2017 as being traumatized by abortions"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:41Z 51.6K followers, 459.6K engagements

"10. Before [----] or so the show often questions the entire premise: victim advocates show up to argue that the trauma of a trial is not worth it episodes show how traumatic it is to go through a rape-kit and so forth"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:41Z 51.6K followers, 450.2K engagements

"Relatedly I am a bit less sure about this without calculating the actual episodes involved but my impression is that there are a fewer number of episodes with false rape accusations in more recent seasons"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:43Z 51.6K followers, 431.6K engagements

"In later seasons it is an article of faith of the main character that the only way to overcome the trauma of a rape is by confronting the rapist in a court of justice. Things are far more ambiguous in earlier seasons"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:48Z 51.6K followers, 414.6K engagements

"11. Starting in [----] and escalating dramatically around [----] are incidents of multi-episode arcs"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:50Z 51.6K followers, 394.1K engagements

"From an artistic point of view I was struck by how efficient the writers were in the early seasons. They were very capable of fitting an arc that introduces and resolves a compelling characters story in a [--] minute window. Every second filmed was a second that mattered"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:52Z 51.6K followers, 392.5K engagements

"One of the tragedies of streaming is that screenwriters seemed to have lost this ability to tell good stories with economy. You notice this in SVU itself as it relies more and more on multi episode arcs"
X Link 2024-05-15T00:54Z 51.6K followers, 387.6K engagements

"13. The internet is portrayed in an interesting way in the early episodes. Basically before [----] if your kid was chatting with a stranger online they were going to get kidnapped or raped"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:00Z 51.6K followers, 359.5K engagements

"There are many many things that could be said about individual episodes. They do episodes for all the things in the news:"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:00Z 51.6K followers, 347.5K engagements

"there is a gamer gate episode a duke lacrosse false rape episode Jerry Falwell jr episode the episode where they explain to boomers what Myspace isand so on"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:00Z 51.6K followers, 344.9K engagements

"My comments try to look at trends over many episodes. I am sure I could think of more upon greater reflection"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:02Z 51.6K followers, 140.4K engagements

"If there was any over riding trend I would say this: the problems faced generally become less morally ambiguous and its heroes less hard-nosed the longer the show goes on. I suspect this might have to do with public perceptions of cops generally:"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:04Z 51.6K followers, 141.1K engagements

"The less the public trusts cops the more the writers and actors must do to make their characters and their mission beyond reproach"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:05Z 51.6K followers, 144K engagements

"Thats all for tonight folks"
X Link 2024-05-15T01:10Z 51.6K followers, 143.9K engagements

"@maityman I am a little ready for a new background show"
X Link 2024-05-15T11:29Z 51.6K followers, 99.8K engagements

"Update: my wife requests that I add AIDS to the listshe was struck by how common a theme it was in the first six seasons (often variation of can you charge someone who knowingly has unprotected sex even though he has AIDS). AIDS does not have the same prominence later"
X Link 2024-05-15T11:35Z 51.6K followers, 61.5K engagements

"sigh Do I need to do another long Lord of the Flies thread LoF was written just after WWII by a man who fought in it as an allegory for the descent of civilized men into fascism and savagery. It isnt a serious attempt to depict the state of nature. a funny thing about the lord of the flies is it's based on what the author thought people would do but in [----] when [--] teenaged boys actually did get marooned on a tropical island instead of tearing each other apart they worked together to reconstruct civilization from scratch https://t.co/5YSYwAkDva a funny thing about the lord of the flies is"
X Link 2024-06-15T20:29Z 51.6K followers, 113.4K engagements

"This is true of many things. The last generation of Star Wars movies for example were clearly created by people who obsessed over the original Star Wars. The creators of the original Star Wars obsessed over Joseph Campbell and Wagner and Kurosawa. It's always depressing when I see one of those "here are the inspirations for our game" tweets and its just [--] other games from 10-20 years ago. No books music films nothing. Indie games now suffer the same issue as AI where the inputs are from the same source as the outputs It's always depressing when I see one of those "here are the inspirations"
X Link 2024-06-29T15:33Z 51.6K followers, 107.1K engagements

"Ok I will wade into the debate. If I was a finance bro looking to resettle from the big city to some rural area I would not choose middle of nowhere North Dakota. I would choose somewhere 30-70 minutes out from a university town"
X Link 2024-07-09T00:09Z 51.6K followers, 240.8K engagements

"George W Bush certainly could and would have done something similar. It is interesting how we have memory holed the traits that made him popular now that we know how his presidency turned out. There have been many politically gifted presidents but I don't think Obama or even Clinton could've pulled off the rapid composure fist raise and creation of an absolutely iconic moment. You'd have to go back to Reagan There have been many politically gifted presidents but I don't think Obama or even Clinton could've pulled off the rapid composure fist raise and creation of an absolutely iconic moment."
X Link 2024-07-14T14:49Z 51.6K followers, 119.4K engagements

"There is a much simpler explanation for this behavior. For a very long time Cantonese was the most commonly spoken dialect in western China towns. Many if not most of these people did not speak Mandarin well or at all. So for upwards [--] years if a random citizen of western nation met someone who spoke Chinese there was about a 50/50 chance it was either Cantonese or Mandarin. With the exception of a few Hokkien speakers you were exceedingly unlikely to find any other dialects represented. People who try to be smart and ask 'but which Chinese Mandarin or Cantonese' when someone from China says"
X Link 2024-07-21T13:52Z 51.6K followers, 130.5K engagements

"Listening to Caros LBJ series on auto book right now. LBJ just finished college. Some preliminary notes on a series variously described as greatest biography ever written greatest narrative nonfiction ever written etc"
X Link 2024-07-29T13:28Z 51.6K followers, 226.7K engagements

"I will bet against this. First because the scale of Rowling's achievement. Every book that has cleared [---] million sales is remembered. Second because her books are children's literature. The largest selling children's titles have unusual persistence because parents 1/2"
X Link 2024-08-19T04:27Z 51.6K followers, 65.1K engagements

"Hard to dismiss great man history after reading Robert Caro. The problem with most Great Man history though is that the focus is rarely on things like he had a [--] minute phone call with senator X on date Y where he offered him A B and C to get to to agree to this or that legal maneuver on the floor of the senate and instead treat the great man in question almost as a symbol or the human embodiment of some social force. FDR doesnt change America because he twisted that arm and cajoled that donor but because FDR represents somethingan idea a class a historical moment and so forth. If you are at"
X Link 2024-08-19T15:35Z 51.6K followers, 117.4K engagements

"This is the worst sort of educational philosophy. Every intelligent person worth their salt has a vast store of memorized knowledge that they pull out to use when they need to analyze a problem. The idea that you can critically think without such a store is self defeating. @ASPertierra You are asking the wrong question. The question is not "What can students memorize" which is what you are asking. The correct question is "Develop a cure for cancer" "Design a cost-effective subway system" and "Design a budget based on a salary of $6000 for a family of [--] and @ASPertierra You are asking the"
X Link 2024-08-24T19:05Z 51.6K followers, 275.7K engagements

"The sad thing about chatgpt killing essays is that essay writing is a very effective way to learn. I remember the main ideas of every research essay I wrote in undergrad but only a fraction of what I was tested on"
X Link 2024-09-06T21:52Z 51.6K followers, 229.1K engagements

"In Taiwan I found it cheaper to eat out than eat in. I still dont understand why. the fact that its cheaper to cook your own food is disturbing to me. like frequently even after accounting for your time. like cooking scales with number of people like crazy. theres no reason for this to be the case. i dont get it. the fact that its cheaper to cook your own food is disturbing to me. like frequently even after accounting for your time. like cooking scales with number of people like crazy. theres no reason for this to be the case. i dont get it"
X Link 2024-09-29T02:39Z 51.6K followers, 249.9K engagements

"I am trying to understand if attitudes like this are downstream of video games role playing games or Bryan Sanderson Screenrant does not understand Narnia. Here is what they said about the problems that Lewis is said to have left for Gerwig to fix. https://t.co/4BDMxfTR7q Screenrant does not understand Narnia. Here is what they said about the problems that Lewis is said to have left for Gerwig to fix. https://t.co/4BDMxfTR7q"
X Link 2024-10-02T14:51Z 51.6K followers, 170.4K engagements

"Overly large books that I thought were really worth it: [--]. Dream of the Red Chamber [--]. Paradise Lost [--]. Iliad [--]. War and Peace [--]. Life and Fate [--]. House of Government [--]. War in Human Civilization [--]. Muqaddihmah [--]. Democracy in America [--]. Mote's Imperial China [--]. Sima Qian's Record of the Grand Historian [--]. Caro's Lyndon B Johnson books"
X Link 2024-12-02T14:29Z 51.6K followers, 114.2K engagements

"@BDSixsmith love/hate relationship from people envious of the credential while simultaneously believing the credential a mark of shame"
X Link 2024-12-02T15:06Z 51.6K followers, 68.8K engagements

"I notice a certain gap between the way Indians and Americans think about their two countrys relations. Indians understand that their foreign policy has shifted from doggedly anti-American to lukewarmly American tilted and feel like their shift has not received the credit in Washington that they are due. America with many allies bound to it for decades by interlocking security intelligence and trade pacts who citizens have died alongside each other in many lands has a different standard for international friendship. The Indians do not understand why they don not get the same consideration of a"
X Link 2024-12-04T17:26Z 51.6K followers, 241.5K engagements

"One personality feature I did not come to really appreciate until my 30s is that nebulous thing we mean when we say someone is high energy or low energy. I recently met a professionally successful career woman with [--] children. She told me how many younger women have told her that they want to do what she doesto have it all. She doesnt really know what to tell them. She is a person of boundless energy. But if they are not as high energy as me I do not think what I do would be possible. This is true in a more general senseI think I underestimated the extent to which accomplishment is downstream"
X Link 2024-12-11T20:33Z 51.6K followers, 291.4K engagements

"My wife has a special genius for organization task management and finding the exact tool for solving every problem a person might face. She is a living lifehacker encyclopedia. In honor of the first year of our marriage a small 🧵of Mrs. Greer's recommended homehacks"
X Link 2024-12-22T16:01Z 51.6K followers, 206.6K engagements

"In November I traveled to India. Met with government officials. Traveled the high Himalayas. Listened to Bengalore coders speak. Here I share what I learned. 🧵"
X Link 2025-01-06T01:31Z 51.6K followers, 334.8K engagements

"In the world before the super market the average American family spent one third of its budget on food. Think of what a modern supermarket does. First it tries to imitate the butcher shop with a meat section. And it has a produce section mimicking a farmers market. A bakery section like what the guy who baked your bread had. Enough time goes on - and they sort of keep this up Think of what a modern supermarket does. First it tries to imitate the butcher shop with a meat section. And it has a produce section mimicking a farmers market. A bakery section like what the guy who baked your bread"
X Link 2025-01-08T13:57Z 51.6K followers, 134.4K engagements

"I wrote this almost a decade ago: The hope that the Chinese will admit their wrongs and ask to join our rules-based club is a mirage. It must be given up. We hold to it only because we fear the responsibility the truth would force upon us. The Chinese have made their choice. The ball is in our court now. It is dispiriting to have to have the exact same conversation today. The fundamental question for the PRC: they say they want to be agents of world order they say they want to be responsible they say they want to respect the international system. But they've got a choice to make because"
X Link 2025-01-17T14:21Z 51.6K followers, 149.5K engagements

"People do not understand that leading AI labs and companies are stocked full of people who literally and earnestly wish to replace human kind with cyborgs. @wolftivy there's a lot of room for co-evolution but i don't think we get to stay the same anymore @wolftivy there's a lot of room for co-evolution but i don't think we get to stay the same anymore"
X Link 2025-01-27T18:02Z 51.6K followers, 186K engagements

"No folks here is what happening. [--]. Donald Trump believes in the madman theory. Here he is last year explaining why the Chinese won't dare attack Taiwan under his watch: "Xi Jinping knows that I am F----g crazy." Exact quote he gave to the WSJ last summer"
X Link 2025-02-03T21:09Z 51.6K followers, 152K engagements

"Most tweeters are deeply unserious but you have to understand that DOGE is not about the debt. That was how it was sold publicly especially by Ramaswamy who no longer heads it but that is not its actual purpose. The purpose is to dismantle the administrative state. The Politico crowing is not about the money spent. It is about evidence for state-media collusion that lumps the employees of both estates into one morally suspect and corrupt class. That is why they are all excited about it. They want to dismantle a media-government-NGO complex and see severe hundred thousand dollars spent on"
X Link 2025-02-05T22:00Z 51.6K followers, 210.9K engagements

"From my copybook. [--]. Paradise Lost Book IX lines 120-130: "By what I seek but others to make such As I though thereby worse to me redound: For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts.""
X Link 2025-02-08T23:39Z 51.6K followers, 153.9K engagements

"I do not think this is true at all. IMHO Chinese culture is far less alien to American culture than its Japanese or Cambodian counterparts. I find it far less jarring to work with Chinese than with Russians or Poles or Middle Easteners. China is a fearful mirror. Its vicesthe gross commercialism the mercenary and cutthroat culture the boundless bulk of an unaccountable bureaucracy the brazen waste of a choked military-industrial machine big country autism the warped altars where we slaughter privacy and decency in worship of security and efficiency the careening cybernetic spool that cant be"
X Link 2025-02-14T02:44Z 51.6K followers, 191.6K engagements

"I wonder if there will ever be a journalist ballsy and talented enough to discover and report the full story of Leverage the Zizians MIRI et al. Here is this subculture that is entangled with the most profitable industry in the world from its origins whose ideas have permeated the English speaking intellectual life and whose principle figures are intimately tied to both some of the richest and some of the most politically powerful people in the country. and the stories are more bonkers more out there than the Nazi occultists and '70s counterculture cults at their craziest. People being driven"
X Link 2025-02-15T16:35Z 51.6K followers, 316.4K engagements

"What do presidents Clinton Bush Obama and Trump have in common Each began their term in office -- and for Trump both terms -- convinced that America needed some sort of reset with Russia and if they played their cards right they would get it. Kellogg explains that America will attempt to break Russia away from China Iran and North Korea. https://t.co/Z5GInLDeH3 Kellogg explains that America will attempt to break Russia away from China Iran and North Korea. https://t.co/Z5GInLDeH3"
X Link 2025-02-17T04:44Z 51.6K followers, 99.8K engagements

"The failure mode for Trump I think will actually be an American Gorbachev -- the parallels are very obvious and I hope the right takes these parallels seriously enough to avoid them. We wanted American Deng Xiaoping and instead we got American Bo Xilai We wanted American Deng Xiaoping and instead we got American Bo Xilai"
X Link 2025-02-21T23:45Z 51.6K followers, 222.9K engagements

"Blood Meridian. Finished it. Extremely good. Fighting temptation to immediately reread the entire thing with the last [--] pages in mind"
X Link 2025-04-16T21:39Z 51.6K followers, 85.1K engagements

"they are reverting to buttons because buttons are obviously superior to screens when driving. It is better to have controls you can adjust by touch without taking your eyes off of the road. Tesla screens were a terrible mistake. Subaru redesigned their [----] Outback interior to have a segmented LCD climate control display. This is a [----] model year. The previous Outback used a screen for everything. Legacy auto is reverting back to buttons because they cant make good software lol. https://t.co/TZqoxvgzzy Subaru redesigned their [----] Outback interior to have a segmented LCD climate control"
X Link 2025-04-18T01:28Z 51.6K followers, 80.5K engagements

"The trouble is that except in one or two locales most activities coded as trad online are actually engaged in by liberals. The median conservatives main hobby is television podcasts or video games. All of my hobbies lead to liberal friends. Im okay with not having the same opinions why cant they Or like maybe we just collect the mushrooms & not talk about it. All of my hobbies lead to liberal friends. Im okay with not having the same opinions why cant they Or like maybe we just collect the mushrooms & not talk about it"
X Link 2025-04-20T14:46Z 51.6K followers, 82K engagements

"I have a theory for why this happened and it goes something like this: Abundance probably wouldve gone over better with the left if it was just the two authors promoting it. Some needed ideas in there. Once it got a posse of dudes who cant say an idea without punching left in smug and counterproductive ways it got mired in this stupidity. Abundance probably wouldve gone over better with the left if it was just the two authors promoting it. Some needed ideas in there. Once it got a posse of dudes who cant say an idea without punching left in smug and counterproductive ways it got mired in this"
X Link 2025-05-11T04:17Z 51.6K followers, 162.4K engagements

"There should be more universities like St. John's. I do not mean their specific great books curriculum so much as their commitment to a completely distinct curriculum that bares no resemblance to the standard American university model"
X Link 2025-06-03T18:17Z 51.6K followers, 199.3K engagements

"This is an important data point that deflates many theories for what is happening There was no rise in female labor participation rate in India during the period we see sharp TFR drop. India is probably only country where TFR is dropping even without significant rise in women entering workforce. https://t.co/4Rd8HhDL1j There was no rise in female labor participation rate in India during the period we see sharp TFR drop. India is probably only country where TFR is dropping even without significant rise in women entering workforce. https://t.co/4Rd8HhDL1j"
X Link 2025-06-04T14:56Z 51.6K followers, 70.3K engagements

"This is one of those technologies whose obvious use cases are all evil: robocalls deepfakes extortion scamming. As a matter of course I would not associate with anyone employed here. Today were excited to introduce Bland TTS the first voice AI to cross the uncanny valley. Several months ago our team solved one-shot style transfer of human speech. That means from a single brief MP3 you can clone any voice or remix another clones style (tone cadence https://t.co/zD0ZNEowL5 Today were excited to introduce Bland TTS the first voice AI to cross the uncanny valley. Several months ago our team"
X Link 2025-06-05T21:03Z 51.6K followers, 94.9K engagements

"Yarvin can always outlast and out-insult others very hard to summon the energy to debate him. The piece is good. I'll just note four things about Yarvin and that will all I have to say on him. .@curtis_yarvin Shoudl take the L publicly apologize for wandering into an area where he knows so little and spouting off so confidently and move on. https://t.co/7GbRCBcwN6 .@curtis_yarvin Shoudl take the L publicly apologize for wandering into an area where he knows so little and spouting off so confidently and move on. https://t.co/7GbRCBcwN6"
X Link 2025-06-10T01:31Z 51.6K followers, 128.7K engagements

"This sort of video is appealing to nerds like me but I do not know if it sells well beyond nerd ranks. The problem is that Tucker does not close the deal. He shows that Cruz does not know anything about Iran but he does not demonstrate in a way that sounds good to non-nerds why not knowing things matters. "Here is why the population of Iran matters Senator. There are three times the number of people in Iran than there are in the state if Texas--and three times the number that were in Iraq. Do you know how many soldiers we needed to surge into Iraq to keep the peace there And Iran has three"
X Link 2025-06-18T13:44Z 51.6K followers, 230.1K engagements

"Am I the only Republican in this country who thinks is what we need is a tax raise"
X Link 2025-07-05T15:13Z 51.6K followers, 75K engagements

"I once had a conversation with a "second generation rich" in Beijing. We met in a Beijing high-rise on a Sunday afternoon at a mutual acquaintance's house--a woman who imported art for resale to the clients like her. I suppose you could say she flaunted her wealth. She drove around the city in a sports car with Hello Kitty decals. She never "earned" the wealth she had. It was given to her at a young age. The cost of her wealth--or so it seemed to me--was control: her entire life's course had been dictated by her father who was preparing her from a young age to inherit his business interests."
X Link 2025-07-05T22:42Z 51.6K followers, 757K engagements

"As an addendum: the other frustrating thing about it--or frustrating to me then--was than this woman was beautiful charming and kind. She was not conniving like many Beijing upper crusters I met in those days. She went out of her way to do me a favor a few weeks after that to no benefit to herself. By no means a saint--but more upright in thought and conduct than most people. The natural world does not balance"
X Link 2025-07-05T22:46Z 51.6K followers, 81.2K engagements

"Been reading Reddit threads about Edward Gibbons DECLINE AND FALL. It is full of folks who read excerpts/ a few chapters in a historiography class now lecturing on how outdated it is historically inaccurate and useful only for understanding the Enlightenment. Bah"
X Link 2025-07-17T02:04Z 51.6K followers, 82.6K engagements

"Not nearly enough self-critical reflection from the tech right side on why DOGE was such a colossal failure. If you don't do this yourself your enemies--enemies within the right--will do it for you"
X Link 2025-07-30T17:27Z 51.6K followers, 92.9K engagements

"I have asked this question on this platform several times over the last two yearsusually not in reference to vibes but hard statistics which support the idea that women have become the main (American) world travelers. I am dissatisfied with the Twitterati answers. Thread. When did travel become woman coded I feel like it was gender neutral or even male coded only a few decades ago When did travel become woman coded I feel like it was gender neutral or even male coded only a few decades ago"
X Link 2025-08-02T16:38Z 51.6K followers, 232.6K engagements

"Today I encountered a Chinese idiom I had not learned before. It is a very good one one that we should use in English: "A long illness makes a patient a doctor.""
X Link 2025-08-04T13:03Z 51.6K followers, 873.5K engagements

"The truth of this statement is obvious to anyone with a chronic illness or who has helped someone with one. The Chinese also use the phrase more generally to mean "one becomes expert in misfortunes long endured." e.g. You might apply it to Lincoln as a war commander in 1864"
X Link 2025-08-04T13:06Z 51.6K followers, 42.5K engagements

"Pakistan: responsible for more American deaths than any other country this century. No country is so skilled at extracting American largesse and using it against American interests. Any foreign policy that treats the Pakistanis preferentially is not America 1st"
X Link 2025-08-07T20:19Z 51.6K followers, 373.4K engagements

"I have a very different and somewhat romantic take on this question. First though a map that shows you just how close to the border and far away from everything else Beijing was. Moving the capital to the edge of the desert steppes near the Gobi was frankly insane and the Ming Chengzu Emperor frankly doesn't get enough hate for that decision. Moving the capital to the edge of the desert steppes near the Gobi was frankly insane and the Ming Chengzu Emperor frankly doesn't get enough hate for that decision"
X Link 2025-08-16T13:41Z 51.6K followers, 92.1K engagements

"These are extremely good textbooks. Pedagogically unique--very different from most mathematics texts. If you come from a humanist background or otherwise worry that you don't "get" math I strongly recommend these"
X Link 2025-08-24T14:05Z 51.6K followers, 302.1K engagements

"How the Chinese consulate in New York has unseated multiple city and state level politicians they do not like"
X Link 2025-08-25T22:17Z 51.6K followers, 205.9K engagements

"Be a gangster who smuggles Chinese into the United States in shipping containers Rat out your mafia boss in plea deal Say you have reformed create a nonprofit to "raise the profile of Asian Americans in politics" Get Hillary Clinton to ask for your endorsement 1/2"
X Link 2025-08-26T00:53Z 51.6K followers, 153.8K engagements

"In defense of cliches: century of national humiliation actually is key to understanding Chinese foreign policy and most foreigners have in fact never heard of it. Introducing. China Thinkpiece Bingo https://t.co/wOb6GtvAEp Introducing. China Thinkpiece Bingo https://t.co/wOb6GtvAEp"
X Link 2025-08-28T21:01Z 51.6K followers, 72.3K engagements

"Chinese Americans are the one Asian American immigrant group where the majority have a negative opinion of their ancestral homeland"
X Link 2025-09-01T15:59Z 51.6K followers, 329.9K engagements

"This is the thing about Chinese industrial policy: it is Darwinian in a way that most western attempts at industrial policy are not. The bloodbath in Chinas car market is fierce. https://t.co/uQlsrTDY7A The bloodbath in Chinas car market is fierce. https://t.co/uQlsrTDY7A"
X Link 2025-09-22T16:34Z 51.6K followers, 231.9K engagements

"Everybody cites this study on how 2/3rds of English majors cannot understand the first paragraph of Bleak HouseI strongly recommend reading the study itself. It is very enlightening on why the students are failing"
X Link 2025-09-24T15:47Z 51.6K followers, 239.8K engagements

"On the other hand this whole section about the Stavrogin type would not hit nearly as hard or have quite the analytic oomf absent Stavrogin"
X Link 2026-01-25T08:50Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I am not sure how true that is however for people who have not read the novel. @gwern has an essay about "video games as art" where he makes the point that many of the insights and experiences a video game might offer cannot easily be summarized"
X Link 2026-01-25T08:52Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@gwern P.S. link to the essay in question: https://possessedmachines.com/ https://possessedmachines.com/"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:56Z 51.6K followers, [----] engagements

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