a) barely, b) mountains, c) population distribution. there’s nobody up there.
the argument stands.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 10:14:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012831016419823668
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actually, deduction
actually, deduction.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 07:45:37 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012793486156668961
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Easily. Painfully easily. Though, it’s house-to-house not ‘sides’
Easily. Painfully easily. Though, it’s house-to-house not ‘sides’.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 05:38:08 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012761403547955326
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It has everything to do with it. The fact that you don’t comprehend it means tha
It has everything to do with it. The fact that you don’t comprehend it means that you can’t explain what occurs as territories scale, infrastructure cost increases, regionalism is expressed, heterogeneity increases, conflict occurs, and military responsibility is born, and ideological competition (internal colonization) and religious colonization (islam, judaism) expand. The USA started out with four very different fundamentalist groups. That’s why the USA has a secular constitution – to allow fundamentalists to govern. Regardless the north consisted of small farms for domestic consumption, which evolved into industrialism and the south of large plantations with export commodities, and we had a civil war. At present we are heading toward another civil war. And those of us who do this for a living have been predicting around 2030 for it since the 90s. I was predicting earlier (i’m usually wrong on that) and others later. But given normal human cycles of economics, generations, and political reorganization we will have one if this president is unsuccessful in reorganization of the government, and american strategic defense, and repatriation of industry, and reduction of housing costs. If he cannot purge the accumulated corruption by the democratic party through their various NGOs and activist groups, then we will not recover our debth position , not have the growth, the turnover in the presidence will lead to attempted reversal, and we will have our warm civil war turn into a hot civil war.
I”ve written on this topic enough elsewhere to have the FBI in my kitchen all too many times, assuming I’m advocating for it rather than trying to prevent it. My organization NLI seeks to prevent it.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 05:14:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012755537075810686
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(Rockstar) 😉
(Rockstar) 😉
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 04:48:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012749011418300724
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Agreed. We are gonna make it happen. 😉
Agreed. We are gonna make it happen. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 04:06:19 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012738298385686759
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The weirdness of buying compute by the tens of gigawatts. What planet are we on
The weirdness of buying compute by the tens of gigawatts. What planet are we on again?
(RE: OpenAI buying 75GW of compute from Cerebras.)
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-15 23:31:45 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011944423878254940
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If there is de-dollarization I don’t see it. There was some chance under the Eur
If there is de-dollarization I don’t see it. There was some chance under the Euro, but the Europeans violated the first principle of a reserve currency and violated the property rights of depositors and investors.
The USA doesn’t do that ever. It’s a core principle. And we have the debt capacity because of the size of our economy and strength of our military to do so.
A common reserve currency needs common interests. This is why the competition by hostile states is irrelevant. They can’t really do without the dollar. There is some hope that digital currency like bitcoin will sometime provide an alternative, but that system is still slow and fragile enough that governments are unwilling to try it at scale.
So for now, there are two currencies: the dollar, and oil. Everything else is a hedge (gold).
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-15 23:25:03 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011942738812637322
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(Diary) I try to keep everyone happy. Most of the time it works. Not always. Som
(Diary)
I try to keep everyone happy. Most of the time it works. Not always. Sometimes something has to give. And when it does, most people will understand why if you explain it. But otherwise, it’s a strategy that has served me well in activism, business, and in social life. My primary failing is in relationships, but not for reasons. you’d think. It’s almost always because I work myself into exhaustion, the hospital, and ‘shutdown’ such that it affects my girlfriend, fiance, or spouse. It’s never been for any other reason.
This is why I tell people to moderate their career ambitions if it comes at the expense of relationships.
I have a mission I’ve had since the age of twelve, and the truth is that mission, the one I work at every day, is more important to me than family. This probably disqualifies me for family life. But I always thought I could manage my intellectual ambitions, my entrepreneurial ambitions, and my personal life ambitions.
But it turns out you need to be healthy to do that. 😉 And the one sure way to get unhealthy is working obsessively and carrying the stress until your body decides to rebel.
I hope this does someone good. 😉
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-15 23:21:07 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011941747702841743
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GREENLAND IS A NORTH AMERICAN STRATEGIC ISSUE Greenland isn’t under NATO protect
GREENLAND IS A NORTH AMERICAN STRATEGIC ISSUE
Greenland isn’t under NATO protection in practice though. NATO is meaningless without the USA. The whole of europe can’t field anything substantial in war. It’s totally hollowed out to pay for their social programs. Even worse, france is approaching an unrecoverable debt crisis because of it. Germany italy and poland are running out of people.
Canada is absolutely useless with only 52k total ready forces only a tiny fraction of which about 1000-2000 are immediately deployable. And if we look at naval passages, the north pole and greenland are a russian and chinese naval lake. The UK is down to 75k regulars. Tehy can only deploy 3000-5000 immediately with France equal in that number. Current German capacity is only 1000-5000 and then only if they have US, UK, of french transport and supply. The USA can field 200K anywhere in the world in ten days, and frequentl deploys 90k in exercises. And this is before we talk about air, sea, land, space, and missile power. The USA’s problem is simply that it doesn’t stock enough ammunition and depends upon ramping up production unrealistically. So the net is that NATO is roughly symbolic other than the USA, which is what Trump is trying to change – and what the europeans are resisting. Surveys show that the people won’t even fight for their countries.
Ask a search engine for a polar map of the world. It’s the shortest distance between chinese, russian, north american and european geographies in the northern hemisphere. Its also the single optimum location for planetary surveillance and monitoring of satellites.
So greenland is profoundly strategic. And there are only 50k residents there and denmark’s population is only 6M and it’s GDP under $500B. It’s barely equivalent to a large american city. They can’t police it and even less defend it. It would take all of Europe to even try. But Europe has an eastern front with russia, and a southeastern from with islam. And Turkey is a questionable ally. So in the current era, the north polar region is as important as the atlantic was in the past and the pacific has become of late.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-15 23:11:25 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011939306978623553