Chris Patterson

@IAPolls2022 The first woman to be President will be a Republican. Democrats don't even know what a woman is.

AXIOS: Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, White, Christian man. Former first lady Michelle Obama fueled such talk recently, saying the U.S. is "not ready for a woman." Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of "It has to be a white guy." axios.com/2026/03/29/som…

@AntigoneJournal @CathyYoung63 This is a baby. By next year the error rate will be down to 1% and by 2030 error free.

This is a genuinely interesting story. Huge amount of automated work, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of human hours. BUT: with an error rate of 10%, and with the precise reading of *every* word mattering in such an exercise, it is meaningless, and for manuscripts of authority worse than useless, without a human checking every single word. BUT: there simply aren't people, in 2026, with the expertise, the time, and the funding to check these 32,000 manuscripts at this level. Welcome to Digital Humanities Slop.

@0xdepression @okaythenfuture Malaysia was doing well economically while everyone in China was still riding bicycles. Talk to my mother-in-law!

People really don't seem to understand that Malaysia is basically a first world economies at this point. Salaries are even higher there for most tech roles than in London + most European cities now. Especially around Penang, which is very notable given its not the main economic engine of the country but is a huge semiconductor/engineering hub, and around Johor, which is Southeast Asia's data hub. The world has transformed massively in the past generation. The Malaysian Century.

@theycallmearif @okaythenfuture The people working in data centres in Johor need to buy a home, a car, meals, entertainment, ... The entire economy is boosted. Everyone benefits.

@okaythenfuture Malaysia has a massive inflow of high-value semiconductor investment and Johor is becoming a regional data centre/cloud hub, but the average salaries across the entire economy remain low and regional inequality persists. Despite all of that, MALAYSIA BOLEH!🇲🇾

@adamscochran Wrong.

ICE did this to 2 American’s just months ago.

@wesyang Give the Squamish the entire city. They will do a better job than the incumbents.

You laughed at land acknowledgments and made the safe, politically acceptable critique of them ("they are dumb because they are empty signaling") without realizing that a Canadian court was about to hand over Vancouver to a tribe. Your pseudo-knowing gambit was just bait for someone to take the land acknowledgment at face value -- which the courts were about to do, and which was the whole point of propagating the land acknowledgment in the first place.

@ythorn3 Read up about medical tourism in Hainan. It hasn't started yet, but it will soon. Move fast and break things.

@c_d_patterson Are they doing it there?

It's hard to be optimistic about mRNA cancer cures or "longevity pills" if you understand anything about incentives. Shareholders don't want you to have a fix for any of your problems. They want you financially shackled to maintenance plans. That's just the dynamic.

@EricLevitz The signs are in Arabic!

Many have rationalized this war with reference to the Iranian people’s right to democratic freedom. I wonder if any of them genuinely believe that this is what a majority of Iranians would have chosen for themselves, had they been allowed to decide

@Melissa_WongMT You have never lived in the Middle East. My wife would go to her students' weddings. The ladies parties for the wedding were separate from the men's parties. The girls (I'm told) were wild!

Has anyone else noticed that the "Iranian women celebrating" videos are all of women that are dressed like h00k3rs?

@miniapeur No. I print it out and give it to the students. Plus there's a giant one on the wall.

Good guy Mendeleev

@P33RL3SS @haider1 AI could make us smarter. 1) It could investigate and improve the biology of intelligence. 2) It could improve the sociology of intelligence.

@haider1 The problem he's making is, he assumes everyone is as smart as him. The very talented or smart will work well with higher and higher abstraction. But this is like expecting millions of people to become mathematicians or logicians, it's not likely. What will their jobs be?

Stephen Wolfram says AI won't end work, but it will make learning low-level mechanics obsolete We moved from assembler to high-level languages, removing the need for humans to understand the machine's plumbing "you don't have to go to the lower levels... it's no longer useful

@Geniustechw 5

Psychology Test: If you walked into this room, which chair would you sit in? 🪑 Drop a number in the replies and I’ll tell you what it says about you...

@MsMelChen Demographically, Singapore and China are "1 child family" or "who can afford to get married." Democracy might not lose.

There needs to be a reckoning of this crazy idea that, prima facie, doesn't even make sense until you realize that it is borne out of actual Western ethnocentrism and wishful thinking: that as a nation achieves economic growth and modernization (through industrialization, urbanization, education, and wealth accumulation), they naturally progress toward democratic governance. The scandal isn't that it was wrong. The scandal is how the hell it became so embedded in Western intellectual and institutional frameworks that it became taken as true and remained completely unquestioned for 70 years. I knew better, but it wasn't because I was smarter. The reason I was early in NOTICING and sounding the alarm on the true face of the CCP since 2018 was because I grew up in Singapore where I saw GDP per capita skyrocket in my lifetime, with no resulting changes in political freedoms. I also knew that the Eastern cultural mindset was distinct as it prioritizes different values and desires than the West does. In other words, this orthodoxy, which undergirded Western foreign policy for GENERATIONS, was a result of the West projecting its own cultural norms, values and experiences as if it were universal. It presumed, erroneously, that people everywhere fundamentally value individualism, democratic governance, and market-driven progress above all else. In reality, other societies prioritized different things like stability, order, collectivism, religious authority, tribal loyalties, or historical grievances. America's foreign policy establishment proceeded to pursue actions that were based on the false premise that promoting economic liberalization was an effective tool to fostering democracy. Economists, political scientists, policymakers, business leaders and journalists were all steeped in the same myopia. This mind virus was super-spreaded globally via organizations like the World Bank, IMF, and OECD. These bodies conditioned loans and aid on market-oriented reforms (e.g., privatization, deregulation), assuming political liberalization would follow as a byproduct. Universities lionized them, think tanks kept inviting them to speak, and to date, the same institutions that imposed shock therapy on Russia, structural adjustment on Africa, and “China will become like us” fantasies continue to face no reckoning when their predictions spectacularly failed and led us to this mess. Will the architects of this strategic disaster pay at all? Probably not. For the sake of all of us though, we need to understand who they were, and how this blindspot became so tacitly accepted as the truth without any proof whatsoever. More disturbingly: how we were able to hinge such consequential decisions on nothing more than a hypothesis about how the world works? This is by far, the most profound miscalculation of the 20th century. And we're now in the 21st living with the consequences of it. It turns out that liberal democracy's survival depended more on wealth than its emergence from growth alone, and that authoritarian regimes adapted to use markets for control rather than yielding to liberalization. It was easy for communism to collapse when it had to deal with its own internal contradictions. Now, we have rich commies, and their youth reject what the West is selling. The West only has itself to blame.

@andorhol59578 @histories_arch Buddhists in Asia use swastikas as good luck symbols. Some of my students want to write it on their exam cover!

@histories_arch After the modern appropriation by the Nazis, it's not a hill I want to die on trying to justify the historical significance of the swastika. Let old symbols pass on. We can create new ones, especially ones as dirty as the swastika as it's been stained by the death of innocence

An ancient Roman mosaic floor fragment featuring a swastika motif, which is housed in the Musei Capitolini in Rome 🇮🇹 The mosaic is over 1800 years old, dating back to ancient Roman times... The mosaic is believed to be a fragment from the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, a significant religious and political site in ancient Rome. The swastika, or shubashtik in Sanskrit, was an ancient symbol of harmony, good fortune, and well-being long before its modern appropriation. The symbol predates Nazi Germany by several millennia and was used across various cultures, including Vedic, Greek, and Slavic cultures. #archaeohistories

@PPC4Liberty @ItIsHoeMath So Canada should be 98% Inuit and Amerinds.

Be like Poland.

@IMAO_ In Malaysia, "auntie" is just a polite term for an older woman. Older men (self included) are called "uncle." My wife has a Ph.D. so her students call her "Prof." One day, she came home upset that a student (in a different faculty) had called her "auntie" in the cafeteria!

“Aunt” is just a general term from Mamdani’s culture that means “person I made up.”

@teortaxesTex Really? What about Taoism and Buddhism?

That’s true but what after man?

@kelleyskar @bickletonbob The natives will want to maximize revenue. They won't do that by causing legal havoc.Some compromise will occur. They could turn Richmond into a new Hong Kong, free of stupid anti-growth rules.

@c_d_patterson @bickletonbob This is a little different than the housing market dropping and the whole fearful quote from Warren Buffet…

I asked AI to summarize for me the BC Supreme Court Decision Cowichan Tribes v. Canada. Three points it made in its summary are the most alarming: 1. Private homeowners are not automatically “owed” compensation by the First Nation under this decision, but there is uncertainty going forward. 2. Because of the appeal process and the novelty of the decision, homeowners should be aware of potential future legal/negotiation outcomes. 3. It imposes a duty on the Crown to negotiate reconciliation of title and property interests (which may include compensation) Some have attempted to point out that this situation would be equal to First Nation lands where there is a 99 year lease in place and you can purchase real property. Like in the Westbank First Nations here in the Okanagan. Let me be very clear, this is not that. Not at all. But lets address the three points here... 1. Anyone losing the right to their property by way of municipal, provincial or federal expropriation is entitled to fair market value of their property. These home owners are losing the ownership to the land that their home sits on, WITHOUT compensation. How is this legal? How is this fair and in good faith? 2. Future legal negotiations will render these properties unsaleable, who in their right mind would purchase a property that is subject to litigation without knowing the outcome? This will also have a direct and negative affect on that homes value. 3. Do we as a society now after 10 years of leftist ideology imposed on us as a population, think for one second that the government is going to negotiate fairly on OUR behalf? Especially a government who is directly responsible for Haida Gwaii and now Cowichan? Oh, you don't think they are responsible? They are the ones that opened the door by signing onto UNDRIP by way of DRIPA. You can include @JohnRustad4BC in that as well. Every Canadian should be concerned about the outcome of this case. Every Canadian should be paying close attention and petitioning their MPS and MLAs to ensure they are fighting for ALL Canadians and British Columbians, not just a few.

@bickletonbob @kelleyskar On the contrary, for anyone with cash (not a mortgage), it's a good time to buy. Buy when the market is fearful. Sell when the market is exuberant.

@kelleyskar Any homes in that area for sale? Just me, but I wouldn't risk a cent. Who in their right mind would? Property value zero.