Bill Brown

Just wow.

@ProfRobAnderson The chart above doesn't really show the U.S. so I went and did just that point.

Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.

Ah yes, there are better options. I tried to get my kids' band director to have this at one of their concerts. (He made the mistake of telling me he was a Wes Anderson fan.) youtube.com/watch?v=fAbvRy…

Favorite track from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou soundtrack. (I wish I could turn the video off.)

It's always time to re-watch Life Aquatic. You were just needing an excuse.

@OwenBenjamin Forgot about this Mark Mothersbaugh track. Guess it's time to rewatch Life Aquatic

For whatever reason my kids find this format to be the closest I’ve come to a comedy masterpiece. So here’s more.

I assume he's referring to the imposition of transaction costs. More coarsely: "if you want to screw me, buy me dinner first." Otherwise, it's literally vampiric.

@EricRWeinstein Mr Weinstein- you keep referring to Coasian. I search it but need a clearer picture. The things you attribute to UBI or AI ring true to me, but I don’t understand the model. Can you elaborate?

I wonder whether this is direct enough to make the point about Coasian rights. AI is a vampire. A wraith. A soul snatcher. It's human. It IS us. A tiny number of men are training machines on us, to be us, and to replace us with less mess and cost. Without Coase, you're lost.

@EricRWeinstein I like that you situate "AI" as parasitic.

@BartGonnissen I thought Czechia was pitching in, too‽ x.com/SemSuchar/stat…

Belgium?

Sigh.

@dailymindvirus @Archer83Able Hear me out…

@Archer83Able This is what we should have made 20 years ago

Chairman of the JCS Gen. Dan Caine: "The A-10 Warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz."

@mtracey She's better at it than Noem, who is a glory hound.

Tulsi Gabbard continues to update her personal/political Social Media channels, including as recently as yesterday with her latest Senate testimony. This explains everything she's done on the job. She has converted the DNI role into a vehicle for personal political advancement

@JTLonsdale Talk about narrative capture! I mean, Europe must be in the best shape, energy-wise, given all their "climate crisis" energy investments. Does he even hear himself? Good lord!

Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.

Shameless, petty, and deceptive. The comms team is just following Newsom's example.

Please note that I do not seek out this Gump's opinion. For some reason, his bromidic takes keep coming up when people whose opinion I do seek out quote them. For some reason that escapes me.

You seem to expect that an Ivy League professor would be less intellectually lazy, hustling more because of their reputation. I think the exact opposite: having offloaded reputational defense to the institution. They wouldn't see that utm_source as a matter of personal shame.

I saw an Ivy League professor linking an article as a source to debunk someone and the article didn't even say the thing they said it did. utm_source=chatgpt(dot)com

@mdubowitz This is one of the underappreciated things about this war: having an ally be a full partner.

Israel: 10,000+ munitions, 7,600+ strikes, 2,200+ regime targets, 5,000 sorties. America: 6,500+ combat flights, 7,000+ targets struck. Two allies. Massive sustained airpower degrading the regime’s military, missile, command, repression infrastructure at historic scale. 🇮🇱🇺🇸 wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Sigh.