The total USAID budget was $35 billion by the way

This utter bullshit by the CTO of Palantir, Shyam Sankar, needs to be called out. The US never offered China “peaceful coexistence.” The US wanted China subordinated. They wanted China’s cheap labour inserted into their supply chains and its cheap goods to flow into the US

The reason it is so important for everyone to keep pretending that AGI is definitely right around the corner is that there is now over $1T of investment riding on this belief (either already expended, or committed) Current (and recent past) capex cannot be justified by current

gotta love seeing 95% of crypto down because of an AWS outage very decentralized - great work lads 👍

🔥 Today we’re excited to announce new funding for `grep` (at a $1.3B valuation) to continue building the foundation of agent observability and text search infrastructure. grep began as a humble UNIX utility in 1973. Since then, it’s evolved—through recursive innovation and the

Surprise: when you're racist, people quit. Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale quit over Shaun Maguire's comments, and Sequoia's refusal to do anything about them.

Respect to Sumaiya Balbale for walking away from a lucrative Sequoia Capital role, standing firm on principle against Shaun Maguire's Islamophobic remarks. Any founder should think carefully about taking investment from a firm that refuses to hold a partner accountable for

The current backlash in the West against China’s rise reveals an uncomfortable truth: wealthy countries support globalization when it reinforces existing hierarchies, but they resist it when it enables catch-up development. As JD Vance candidly stated at The American Dynamism

It is not a coincidence that the two most successful economic development stories at the moment — China and Vietnam — are both socialist market economies.

$1T in capex for this btw

Advocates of laissez-faire economics — including libertarians, neoliberals, and free-market capitalists — have long claimed that one of the biggest dangers of too much state intervention is that it will stifle innovation. China is taking a sledgehammer to that idea, completely

This is an incredibly important paper, recently published in China Economic Review. It finds that China’s low-carbon technology exports *significantly* reduce partner countries’ CO₂ emissions. China’s clean energy push is clearly a key driver of global decarbonisation.

You can bifurcate people that have had real scale operating experience based solely on whether or not they use AI notetakers (hence why most VC's are biggg fans)

Your default cognitive environment is hostile to deep thought. If you consume a minute-by-minute feed optimized for engagement, you are training your mind to be reactive, shallow, short-term. The most potent way to think about the world is the opposite: analytical, long-term,

It's neoliberalism — not socialism — that restricts economic freedom. Most countries that score well on economic freedom do so *precisely* because they have socialist policies in place that increase social mobility and decrease economic precariousness. Norway has one of the

The biggest predictor of coding ability is Language Aptitude. Not Math. A study posted in Nature found that numeracy accounts for just 2% of skill variance. Meanwhile, the neural behaviors associated with language accounted for 70% of skill variance.

The minimum wage in Mexico has more than doubled over the last 6 years — *without* leading to job losses or inflation. It's clearly a myth that good labour standards have to come at the expense of job creation or macroeconomic stability.

The essence of great software is the quality of its abstractions. Great abstractions are indefinitely composable and stackable. They become a dependable foundation for future work, future thought. The best ones are so robust you never have to revisit them -- you can forget them

“To speak of 'overcapacity' (in renewable energy) should be unacceptable in light of the fact that 800 million people still lack basic access to electricity and 2 billion lack access to the means of clean cooking.” - Adam Tooze