I’m writing about this tension. IMO one needs a theory of how one generation’s NVIDIA becomes the next generation’s Intel, and how to get the most out of the former phase without being saddled with the latter

Universal injunctions + a handful of courts willing to provide totally perfunctory legal analysis = government cannot function

Yet more reason to anticipate this spring's YLS Seminar in Private Law where @athenais1674 will be one of our guests !

At CPE, I've been lowkey looking into how green banks can combine GGRF with existing, super-concessional EPA water financing facilities (WIFIA, CWSRF) to build solar canals! My reading of the term sheets suggests it's possible, and it would be sooooo cool to see

In today’s Wall Street Journal (@wsj), I argue that SB 1047, California’s landmark new AI bill, offers a promising model for regulating AI: build on the common law of torts. Governor Newsom should sign it. 1/

Here's an entertaining unpublished dissertation on the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and, by extension, the early history of American shale oil production in the 70s and 80s academia.edu/55653367/Unite…

Why I still love twitter - all the info I need to pretend to be a quartz supply chain expert

I am nearly 100% sure that Fervo's construction loan from X-Caliber has a USDA loan guarantee through the OneRD REAP program. (Is there anything the government *doesn't* have its hands in?) Green banks could deploy this USDA program to start building geothermal pilots!!

1/ Details sparse, but from what I've been told, this is a much bigger deal than the previous announcements. Why? Amazon is directly financing the construction of these projects. Much more useful for new tech like SMRs than PPAs are. Quick reaction 🧵

A positive development for the "everybody can get along" camp cc Tyler Norris

Obviously it will be incredibly hard to do this with philanthropy but there's no one who could approach the task with more humility

This tweet alerted me to a great book. I love these detailed studies of institutional creativity in action (see also Heilmann's 'Red Swan' on China). Seeking recs for other studies of a society reinventing itself not via Soviet-style big push but "directed improvisation"

One thing that’s striking about early Chinese industrialization in the 80s-90s is how much you can transform a bureaucracy by subjecting it to incentives (tax farming). But does this work for measures of bureaucratic success other than generating local revenue?

The challenge in this market, like many, is balancing the policy imperative for resilience with the private incentives for efficiency.

Christopher Lasch: not helping

This is hilarious because some of the most innovative and widely praised government contracts in decades were NASA's OTAs with SpaceX for commercial launch services, which would not count as "competitive" under CICA which is presumably what this dumb chart is referring to

Account status: Until a change in ownership, I will only be using this site to argue in the replies. All affirmative posting (including recent announcement of a new tenure-track job) will take place at the other site. Oligarch-run media is bad, actually.