[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@ConservaWonk](/creator/twitter/ConservaWonk) "This is a great story in my state of Ohio about the effort to expand quantum computingwhich along with AI are critical technologies that lie at the heart of the Tech Cold War with China. If we dont remain at the top of innovation China likely will & then they will decide the contours of the 21st century.@OhioX An excerpt "Miami will launch a B.S. in Quantum Computing in August 2025. It is Ohios first and believed to be the nations first to focus fully on quantum software development. The program earned approval from the Ohio Department of Higher Education in March 2025.""  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948756607585726867) 2025-07-25 14:45:56 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements "Between Ozzy Osbourne & now Hulk Hogan some big icons passed this week. I was more of a Jake "The Snake" Roberts kind of guy than Hulk but as a kid Hulk was a common presence on the TV in my house"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948435628317724995) 2025-07-24 17:30:28 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements "And this is where the free market does have breakdowns. China strategically recognized how critical rare earths are and sought to get a chokehold on them in the 1980s and especially 90s. They flood the market bankrupt private business & then claim the strategic high ground. Without significant and long-term government backing China can shoot an arrow into our Achilles' heel whenever it wants to. Yes dereg especially moving away from onerous environmental regs is a key piece. But it is insufficient. This is what a world defined by the ever present possibility of great power war looks like."  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1949165766374244565) 2025-07-26 17:51:47 UTC 3036 followers, XXX engagements "Gotta be honest I didn't expect to be so moved by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. I will always be a conservative but I will always be moved by the dark powerful counter-cultural sounds of Black Sabbath which effectively pioneered a whole new genre of music. It is interesting to reflect on how many of his songs either with Black Sabbath or solo have been a part of my daily life since being a teenager. I have probably listened to War Pigs about as much as any other song ever & tried poorly I must admit to sing it karaoke style. Very glad over the years to have seen Sabbath with Ozzy twice in"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1947988878419165336) 2025-07-23 11:55:15 UTC 3032 followers, XX engagements "Trump must use his position to ensure we don't over regulate AI & stunt our ability to retain the innovation edge in the Tech Cold War with China. Many people fear AI & don't fully understand that even if we put brakes on AI in America China would not. We are in an "Oppenheimer Moment" & have no choice but to be aggressive & press forward or risk not just our economic future but possibly our very ability to recognize reality should the CCP gain the capacity to shape our perceptions"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1949184927247090147) 2025-07-26 19:07:55 UTC 3036 followers, XX engagements "Unsurprising. Unfortunately the Sino-Russian Axis was not inevitable. Poor American grand strategy for the better part of the post-Cold War era facilitated it. Now we have a major problem"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948483901820678389) 2025-07-24 20:42:17 UTC 3035 followers, XXX engagements "We might have to agree to disagree on this. While I certainly believe historic neo-imperial nostalgia motivated Putin US actors ranging from the Serbia bombing by NATO without a UN Security Council resolution unilateral ABM withdrawal missile defense efforts in Poland the Iraq War & NATO expansion especially the George W. Bush effort to bring in Georgia & Ukraine inflamed Russian paranoia & contributed to Putin seeking better relations with China as a hedge. True Russia & China were already improving relations even before Putin but an actual axis coordinating explicitly anti-Western action"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948488087954174073) 2025-07-24 20:58:55 UTC 3035 followers, XX engagements "Gotta be honest I didn't expect to be so moved by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. I will always be a conservative but will always be moved by the dark powerful counter-cultural sounds of Black Sabbath effectively pioneering a whole new genre of music. It is interesting to reflect on how many of his songs either with Black Sabbath or solo have been a part of my daily life since being a teenager. I have probably listened to War Pigs about as much as any other song ever & tried poorly I must admit to sing it karaoke style. Very glad over the years to have seen Sabbath with Ozzy twice in concert"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1947993154554069010) 2025-07-23 12:12:14 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements "Trump should ban TikTok. But even if he doesn't the below should certainly NOT happen. It's ridiculous. Especially after the recent news of Microsoft using Chinese engineers for DOD purposes & the apparent Chinese hacking of the National Nuclear Security Administration"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948130392525177223) 2025-07-23 21:17:34 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements "Things that must be considered as AI drivethe Tech Cole War with China. From@ForeignAffairs Excerpt "In this rapidly changing environment national security leaders should dedicate scarce planning resources to plausible but acutely challenging events. These types of events are not merely disruptions to the status quo but also signposts of alternative futures. Say for instance that a U.S. company claims to have made the transformative technological leap to AGI. Leaders must decide how the U.S. government should respond if the company requests to be treated as a national security asset. This"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948123460477284686) 2025-07-23 20:50:02 UTC 3031 followers, XXX engagements "Another aspect of the AI aspect of the Tech Cold War with China is Chinas ability to leverage its tech around the world and isolate the US. Good@ForeignAffairs piece on this phenomenon. Excerpt But the threat posed by Chinese open models is not simply about China catching up to the United States in the AI race. It is also about the broader global adoption of AI. For January 2025 the DeepSeek R1 app had XX million active users worldwide; by April that number had nearly tripled to XX million. Moreover the CEO of the open-model repository Hugging Face noted that over XXX derivative versions of"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948842943848349709) 2025-07-25 20:29:00 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements "Another bad story of security breakdowns & Chinese hacking of critical US government defense & intel agencies. We must up our game"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948444048454549594) 2025-07-24 18:03:56 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements "The problem is we are in no way prepared for this AND today it's China not the US that is the real global manufacturing superpower. We also already have WWII levels of debt without even being directly in a great power war with the cost of interest on the debt exceeding defense spending & a terrible defense especially naval industrial base. America needs to focus & prioritize. China is the main threat & that is where our attention must reside. The tradeoffs are real & large between focusing on Russia & Ukraine vs China & Taiwan. I wrote about this over a decade ago well before the current"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1949094815666172106) 2025-07-26 13:09:51 UTC 3037 followers, XXX engagements "Arguably Americas greatest strategicvulnerability is rare earths an area we foolishly walked away from during the post-Cold War era when everyone bought into Fukuyamas End of History. But China didnt forget history stillrolledon. They obtained the strategic high ground and nowleverage it ruthlessly but effectively. This is an importantinterview on this critical subject"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948759146381062455) 2025-07-25 14:56:01 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements "Right on from @PalantirTech. Especially in the face of the whole of government approach from China in the Tech Cold War"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1948452168329298005) 2025-07-24 18:36:12 UTC 3032 followers, XX engagements "Wonderful statue of Constantine the Great"  [@ConservaWonk](/creator/x/ConservaWonk) on [X](/post/tweet/1947259806638571705) 2025-07-21 11:38:10 UTC 3031 followers, XXX engagements
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"This is a great story in my state of Ohio about the effort to expand quantum computingwhich along with AI are critical technologies that lie at the heart of the Tech Cold War with China. If we dont remain at the top of innovation China likely will & then they will decide the contours of the 21st century.@OhioX An excerpt "Miami will launch a B.S. in Quantum Computing in August 2025. It is Ohios first and believed to be the nations first to focus fully on quantum software development. The program earned approval from the Ohio Department of Higher Education in March 2025.""
@ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-25 14:45:56 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements
"Between Ozzy Osbourne & now Hulk Hogan some big icons passed this week. I was more of a Jake "The Snake" Roberts kind of guy than Hulk but as a kid Hulk was a common presence on the TV in my house" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-24 17:30:28 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements
"And this is where the free market does have breakdowns. China strategically recognized how critical rare earths are and sought to get a chokehold on them in the 1980s and especially 90s. They flood the market bankrupt private business & then claim the strategic high ground. Without significant and long-term government backing China can shoot an arrow into our Achilles' heel whenever it wants to. Yes dereg especially moving away from onerous environmental regs is a key piece. But it is insufficient. This is what a world defined by the ever present possibility of great power war looks like." @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-26 17:51:47 UTC 3036 followers, XXX engagements
"Gotta be honest I didn't expect to be so moved by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. I will always be a conservative but I will always be moved by the dark powerful counter-cultural sounds of Black Sabbath which effectively pioneered a whole new genre of music. It is interesting to reflect on how many of his songs either with Black Sabbath or solo have been a part of my daily life since being a teenager. I have probably listened to War Pigs about as much as any other song ever & tried poorly I must admit to sing it karaoke style. Very glad over the years to have seen Sabbath with Ozzy twice in" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-23 11:55:15 UTC 3032 followers, XX engagements
"Trump must use his position to ensure we don't over regulate AI & stunt our ability to retain the innovation edge in the Tech Cold War with China. Many people fear AI & don't fully understand that even if we put brakes on AI in America China would not. We are in an "Oppenheimer Moment" & have no choice but to be aggressive & press forward or risk not just our economic future but possibly our very ability to recognize reality should the CCP gain the capacity to shape our perceptions" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-26 19:07:55 UTC 3036 followers, XX engagements
"Unsurprising. Unfortunately the Sino-Russian Axis was not inevitable. Poor American grand strategy for the better part of the post-Cold War era facilitated it. Now we have a major problem" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-24 20:42:17 UTC 3035 followers, XXX engagements
"We might have to agree to disagree on this. While I certainly believe historic neo-imperial nostalgia motivated Putin US actors ranging from the Serbia bombing by NATO without a UN Security Council resolution unilateral ABM withdrawal missile defense efforts in Poland the Iraq War & NATO expansion especially the George W. Bush effort to bring in Georgia & Ukraine inflamed Russian paranoia & contributed to Putin seeking better relations with China as a hedge. True Russia & China were already improving relations even before Putin but an actual axis coordinating explicitly anti-Western action" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-24 20:58:55 UTC 3035 followers, XX engagements
"Gotta be honest I didn't expect to be so moved by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne. I will always be a conservative but will always be moved by the dark powerful counter-cultural sounds of Black Sabbath effectively pioneering a whole new genre of music. It is interesting to reflect on how many of his songs either with Black Sabbath or solo have been a part of my daily life since being a teenager. I have probably listened to War Pigs about as much as any other song ever & tried poorly I must admit to sing it karaoke style. Very glad over the years to have seen Sabbath with Ozzy twice in concert" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-23 12:12:14 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements
"Trump should ban TikTok. But even if he doesn't the below should certainly NOT happen. It's ridiculous. Especially after the recent news of Microsoft using Chinese engineers for DOD purposes & the apparent Chinese hacking of the National Nuclear Security Administration" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-23 21:17:34 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements
"Things that must be considered as AI drivethe Tech Cole War with China. From@ForeignAffairs Excerpt "In this rapidly changing environment national security leaders should dedicate scarce planning resources to plausible but acutely challenging events. These types of events are not merely disruptions to the status quo but also signposts of alternative futures. Say for instance that a U.S. company claims to have made the transformative technological leap to AGI. Leaders must decide how the U.S. government should respond if the company requests to be treated as a national security asset. This" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-23 20:50:02 UTC 3031 followers, XXX engagements
"Another aspect of the AI aspect of the Tech Cold War with China is Chinas ability to leverage its tech around the world and isolate the US. Good@ForeignAffairs piece on this phenomenon. Excerpt But the threat posed by Chinese open models is not simply about China catching up to the United States in the AI race. It is also about the broader global adoption of AI. For January 2025 the DeepSeek R1 app had XX million active users worldwide; by April that number had nearly tripled to XX million. Moreover the CEO of the open-model repository Hugging Face noted that over XXX derivative versions of" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-25 20:29:00 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements
"Another bad story of security breakdowns & Chinese hacking of critical US government defense & intel agencies. We must up our game" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-24 18:03:56 UTC 3032 followers, XXX engagements
"The problem is we are in no way prepared for this AND today it's China not the US that is the real global manufacturing superpower. We also already have WWII levels of debt without even being directly in a great power war with the cost of interest on the debt exceeding defense spending & a terrible defense especially naval industrial base. America needs to focus & prioritize. China is the main threat & that is where our attention must reside. The tradeoffs are real & large between focusing on Russia & Ukraine vs China & Taiwan. I wrote about this over a decade ago well before the current" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-26 13:09:51 UTC 3037 followers, XXX engagements
"Arguably Americas greatest strategicvulnerability is rare earths an area we foolishly walked away from during the post-Cold War era when everyone bought into Fukuyamas End of History. But China didnt forget history stillrolledon. They obtained the strategic high ground and nowleverage it ruthlessly but effectively. This is an importantinterview on this critical subject" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-25 14:56:01 UTC 3031 followers, XX engagements
"Right on from @PalantirTech. Especially in the face of the whole of government approach from China in the Tech Cold War" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-24 18:36:12 UTC 3032 followers, XX engagements
"Wonderful statue of Constantine the Great" @ConservaWonk on X 2025-07-21 11:38:10 UTC 3031 followers, XXX engagements