Dan Wang

The secure transport of light; Breakneck; industrial research at the Hoover History Lab

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

My annual letter:
https://t.co/5axz7jVwOb

This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the physical past and the end of history; Germanic obedience; Antichrist; wisecracks; Pascal’s Wager; romantasy; and croissants.

[Leo Koerner @LeoAKoerner]

Wagnerian single issue voter

[lusso @luusssso]

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public project and we’ll probably never come close again

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives

And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang
https://t.co/vFwcUxo5HP

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@deanwball Grant Gilmore

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@gbrl_dick @noampomsky Don’t threaten me with a good time sir

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@afrazhaowang https://t.co/v4p9Iee2bh

https://t.co/uyH0mM0GhR

Or just start with the first two volumes

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@nabeelqu I was just in Oaxaca. Walking through the streets, either in siesta hours or late at night, one feels the sense of the eerie that Bolaño describes so well

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (https://t.co/Ohrn9qFtIL). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies.

In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War.

This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

One of the greatest charts I have ever seen

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

BYD and Tesla both make EVs in China. Yet BYD has significantly lower costs.

Two major factors:
1) Vertical integration is very high for BYD
2) Doing R&D in China is far cheaper

State subsidies are a small part. It’s more a structural advantage. Fascinating report from Rhodium.

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@cblatts Will you write up how you did it?

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

Knowledge Wins — from the American Library Association (1917)

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

I loved this joint review of Jia Zhangke’s latest feature with Breakneck by @kirenitynow

https://t.co/OdF9wdpqpZ

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

Three book titles that made me laugh:

There Is No Antimemetics Division
The Future of Hegel
Centrists of the World, Unite!

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@kirenitynow @the_met_review Thank you. It is a treat to be reviewed in the company of Jia Zhangke

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@jamescham I would go with you next weekend

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@HipCityReg Thank you Reggie

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@deanwball Or more like spirit in the Hegelian sense or the spirit of the times sense

[Dan Wang @danwwang]

@patio11 I feel like it is meditative and helps me enter flow state. And since it’s the final step of the process, I associate additional pleasure with retyping