Navalny Died a Barin
The Kremlins Didn’t Do It But Even If They Did Navalny Deserved It Anyway
The Kremlins Didn’t Do It But Even If They Did Navalny Deserved It Anyway
Less Butter and Fewer Friends, But More Guns
As China’s economy slows down ahead of expectations and it loses its luster abroad, it’s hard power seems set to acquire a bigger profile.
Taking sides in vicious tribal conflicts is dumb as fuck and is going to boomerang back on you.
Some modest suggestions for AI terminology of a fantastical nature
The coming of AI has made Universal Basic Income a political and technological inevitability in the long-term, regardless of whether there are extensive attempts at AI control.
The Ukraine War will begin imminently, and Russian TOTAL VICTORY is programmed.
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In his latest newsletter, Adam Tooze points out that the Chinese government is asserting greater state control over the economy, including the power of Chinese business magnates to “cash out” of their holdings. In retrospect, this is perhaps the most logical explanation for the crypto crackdown. Diana Fleischman has a good article in Quillette on how
I have been a long-term China bull since I began blogging. Proof (2008). A lot of what the Western media was writing about China were based on Sinophobic fantasies that had no correlation with reality. Just to be clear, I am still a China bull, at least in the sense that I’m sure its GDP
🇷🇺💪🇮🇳 As usual, “real result” of United Russia would have been around 35% instead of 50% (and a simple majority instead of a Constitutional majority). But Western criticisms much less effective in the wake of analogous – if statistically implausible – claims about the 2020 US elections. EVERGRANDE. I was a China bull since I started
There’s not much point worrying much over geological existential risks. They come too infrequently too be a major risk, and those that do occur more often, are not big enough to matter in the big picture. Still, if there’s one risk that is both potentially highly destructive and occurs at a relatively high rate, it
For the past two days I have been awoken by loudspeakers in my neighborhood playing Soviet-themed music telling me to go vote in the elections in a radio announcer type voice. Here are the wealth of choices I have on offer in my district: Elena Gulnicheva, commie QT endorsed by Navalny’s “Smart Vote”. Incidentally, it looks