🇵🇰 Jeffrey Epstein was close to a Pakistani Cyberwarfare Mughal: Mr. Zubair Khan Zubair is the CEO of Tranchulas, an offensive cyber agency based in Islamabad Zubair & Epstein used to meet in Paris, France. 🇮🇳 Tranchulas attacked India at multiple occasions. They got caught in

This cultural moment never existed. It was all wish fulfillment and take farming. x.com/PeterTwinklage…

The idea that developing countries can skip industrialization — and instead develop based on services — is fundamentally misguided. Except for very small countries, *every* country that has transformed its economy from low- to high-income has done so via manufacturing.

Perpetual problem for racists and nativists is that their movement is so stupid that the smarter and more charismatic ones eventually want out (see also: Hanania, Spencer.)

Mystic moves of Spiti. 🖤

An understated risk of the Iranian regime's fall is it benefits Turkey (and to some extent Pakistan) in creating a massive Sunni bloc Ideal case is waiting for Khameinei to die, so the less religious faction of the Iranian military can take over and sideline the clerics

Fascinating: researchers have identified inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi, Prakrit and Sanskrit at tombs in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.

🧵From my two-apart series on religiosity: Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization. The common thread? Political Islam corrodes the very religious authority it claims to embody. When faith becomes a tool of state power, it loses its legitimacy as a source of

In China, these statues of a corrupt 11th century politician and his wife forever kneel in apology. For centuries, people have visited to curse, spit, and hit the statues

The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine American doctors are no longer united on the wisdom of medicalizing gender dysphoria in minors. By @HelenLewis for The Atlantic Gift link: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

Ex bbc editor 😁

im gonna die

And they won. Millennials and Hipsters completely changed the restaurant & bar experience They demanded higher quality food & drink, and they got it. You don’t wanna know what we were serving in restaurants before

I came up with a graph of how different Asian ethnicities beef with one another on the internet during Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year vs Chinese New Year is the East/Southeast Asian version of South Asian vs Indian

This is a misreading of the original critique. Being precise about the nature of the animus we're seeing is important b/c then it's easier to identify its source. Zaid is correct that there is a generalized racial animus against "South Asians," but the content of the H1b attacks

this is why i never worry about competition.

I met a Trump admin guy at a bar in DC last year, and he told me it’s great for Republicans that the official Democratic Party apparatus doesn’t listen to Lakshya and David more because they’re the best in the business. There’s a lesson in that anecdote.

Every Indian PM wanted peace w/Pak, but India got sick of the Pak Army deploying its terrorist proxies to attack India Pakistani elite will LARP as peaceniks, but they claim every terrorist attack in India (and Pak btw) is a false flag by India and take no responsibility at all