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20 September
19 September
From one piece The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apace 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The most obvious problem is that Marco Rubio continues to hold both the Secretary of State and national security advisor positions. This has been going on for nearly 18 months now and it's obviously not working well at all.
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Trump's foreign policy and national security team is staffed with incompetent people at every level.Their words
Remember: when it comes to Trump's foreign policy and national security team, it's incompetents all the way down.
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Banks cannot globalize like software companies because banking is tightly bound to national monetary sovereignty.Their words
banks can't globalize the way other firms can because the banking system is so close to a form of sovereignty: governments very carefully guard the privilege to create more money, and when they give it out, there are strings attached.
18 September
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A computer scientist refusing to find LLMs interesting is like a geneticist ignoring Jurassic Park.Their words
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park.
17 September
16 September
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Republicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt.
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Large national investments in girls' athletic opportunities translate into better international sports results.Their words
America has made unusually large investments in athletic opportunities for girls and it pays off.
15 September
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So long as Canada is irrevocably plugged into the US economy, military and other arrangements, it's liable to get stuck with choices that run counter to its national interests.
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8 September
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Leftists are very rapidly morphing into National Socialists https://t.co/eleld6MP72
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Canada Strong PassTheir words
Last chance to use the Canada Strong Pass this summer. Get out and explore Canada this long weekend — our national parks, museums, galleries, and more — for less.
3 September
From one piece Beware big swings in midterm forecasts 2 beliefs · natesilver.net
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National congressional polling tends to stay stable between Labor Day and Election Day in midterm election years.Their words
midterm races in the modern era tend not to change all that much between Labor Day and Election Day.
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A new poll in Michigan or Maine or South Carolina or Alaska pretty much affects that state and that state only.
1 September
From one piece The Country is the Natural Unit of Policy Analysis 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And yet, life expectancy about two years more than the national average is rather common in rich regions with selective migration, even in European countries with even access to health care, like France and Spain.
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National politics dominates over regional politics in nearly all first-world democracies.Their words
Politics in virtually all first-world democracies is nationalized.
30 August
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The reality is quite the opposite; a country that can create a national health care system is more aware of its own existence, because of the experience of solidarity which enables everyone to thrive thanks to everyone else.
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I think it's all about having regulatory clarity and ease for all sizes of of companies. Um and if we can work with Congress to do something like that, I think that would be that would be the biggest boon for for for startups.
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Forty Signs of RainTheir words
I loved this, but partly this was the pleasant shock of recognition: much of the action revolves around the National Science Foundation and, physically, its old headquarters in Arlington, which Robinson captures extremely well (even the atmosphere of review panels).
10 May
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The corporate best practices lawyers and bankers push on founders are younger than the trees in the local park.Their words
so many of the best practices that your lawyers, your bankers, whoever advisers you have, they're going to be pushing best practices on you that are younger than the trees in your local park.
6 May
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Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva ConventionsTheir words
A very good look at the negotiations behind the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and just how driven by national self-interest they were, including colonial motives from the major colonial powers, who wished to retain stronger rights to put down uprisings.
30 April
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Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.Their words
Even if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.
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13 February
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I think the trillions of dollars a year market, maybe all of the national security implications and the safety implications that I wrote about in adolescence of technology can happen without it, but I I I also think we, and I imagine others, are working on it. And I think there's a good chance that that, you know, that we get there within the next year or two.
28 December 2025
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Jurassic ParkTheir words
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a surprisingly weird and weirdly underrated novel given how many copies it sold and the popularity of the blockbuster franchise it spawned. The story weaves together many apparently disparate threads and there are extensive speculative digressions into the biotechnology, business interests, and institutional dynamics that make the park possible and its dissolution inevitable. If the movie is supremely entertaining, the book is supremely thought-provoking.
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14 October 2025
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Although the cross-sectional relationship between national income and fertility is negative, the longitudinal relationship between national income and fertility is positive: economic booms create baby booms, economic busts create baby busts.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
10 October 2025
From one piece Data centers & electricity - part 1: as of 2025 they haven't raised national prices 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That data centres have not raised national electricity prices so far is no promise that they never will.Their words
This is not to say that data centers won’t affect national prices in the future.
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The American states with the fastest electricity load growth saw prices fall rather than rise.Their words
A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study found that state-level load growth from 2019 to 2024 — including growth driven by data centers, manufacturing, and electrification — was associated with lower average retail electricity prices, not higher ones.
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This is the first conclusion of my deep dive: Data centers have (so far) not affected national average household electricity bills.
29 July 2025
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Morowali’s poverty rate has seen a modest decline since 2016, from around 15% to 12%, but this puts it squarely in the middle of the pack of other Sulawesi districts—and not far from the decline in the national average, which fell from 10.9% to 8.6% over the same period.
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1 April 2025
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These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
12 March 2025
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At the national level there is no clear evidence that more education raises living standards at all.Their words
At the national level, it’s not clear that education increases living standards at all, much less that education makes countries’ living standards increase at a faster rate.
20 January 2025
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The inflation of the early 2020s was caused by government overspending and rising energy prices.Their words
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.
1 November 2024
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A multi-ethnic society only gets the benefits of diversity if it deliberately builds a shared national identity.Their words
However, productive collaborations are not inevitable. Just look at ethnic violence in South-East Asia or Hindu Nationalism in India. Nation-building is really valuable, learning from multi-ethnic, democratic Indonesia.
22 June 2024
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In fact, even though growth in average infrastructure costs over time is documented, there is very little cross-national correlation between GDP per capita and per-km subway construction costs.
22 March 2024
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Well, not just at Area 51, but in all the different national security and military intelligence and intelligence programs. And I personally have no reason to believe that aliens have ever visited Earth. That’s just me personally.
29 November 2023
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Wanting to preserve a national culture is a legitimate human impulse and not in itself a racist one.Their words
Valuing traditions, culture and history is simply a legitimate part of the human experience, and there is nothing wrong with preserving that.
12 November 2023
15 October 2023
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you should be frightened of smart people who don't read. They're the ones that build Jurassic Park, or send all the dentists to build a dam.
7 March 2022
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Our findings suggest that the national discourse around contentious social issues, policies resulting from that discourse, and perhaps the opinions that drive discourse in the first place would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.
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The Wizard of Menlo ParkTheir words
The Wizard of Menlo Park is a great biography of Edison.
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