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It’s now volume 2, because we added The Crisis of the Age as volume 1, but yes that’s the right document. Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 22:38:14 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013018119313190985

I am a very successful negotiator. I understand what he is doing, why it works, and why the consequences are beneficial either way. The USA cannot subsidize world defense any

OK. Which book? If it’s volume two then yes you have it about right. And yes you haven’t come up on it before because we’ve never had a synthesis before.

@RahmEmanuel, @Acyn; Trump is a genius because he has generated the attention and incentives to resolve the issue. Previous presidents have all failed. The fact that Trump uses the same

I don’t cover them in depth. I am mostly interested in the fact that we are on the same page in many ways but his cognitive leverage is literary and

Curt Doolittle’s Interpretation of Nick Land: A Beneficial Division of Labor TL/DR; Land’s elegant explanatory and inspirational philosophy vs Doolittles analytic decidable jurisprudence. Agreement on the problem, different means of

WHY THE U.S. CANNOT BE SCANDINAVIA –“… it would require that the American middle classes accept a MASSIVE downward mobility hit, which is completely out of the question given the

Thanks. We’re fighting the good fight. 😉-hugs Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 19:21:21 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012968573199581288

I’m just trolling the french a bit because it’s sunday and I’m avoiding real work. ;). I actually love Vermont. I can’t move back to ukraine or russia at present.

Yeah but there genetically and culturally french, that’s why. They do what the french always do. 😉..( Sorry. I may be of half french extraction but as an anglo I

WHAT DO “GOOD TIMES” CONSTITUTE?I would argue that ‘good times’ mean “mindfulness amid struggle” that prevents irresponsibility for self and commons. It does not mean spendthrift hyperconsumptive hedonistic luxury to

Yeah. Thats what I mean. ;). -hugs Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 13:00:36 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012872752814846335

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

actually, deduction. Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 07:45:37 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012793486156668961

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

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,

(Rockstar) 😉 Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 04:48:54 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012749011418300724

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

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

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