Brian

I want to glorify the beautiful ideas which kill.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

I’m going to keep working until The Roses of Heliogabalus is hanging in my drawing room.

Then I’ll retire to my hobby farm and none of y’all will ever see me again.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

Year of the American Patriot

[Dan Kervick @DanMKervick]

We’ve lost Venezuela. We might lose Cuba. The condition of Palestine is desperate. Global climate action is dead. Technofascists are running everything. The US “left” is Magafied populist trash in possession of zero brain power.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

It’s “unfair” in that we built this whole global trading system on the premise that states wouldn’t behave like China (and Germany) and run persistent surpluses.

China (and Germany) reaped many rewards for defecting. But now the whole system is collapsing. So congrats, I guess.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is a gross misunderstanding of what I advocate for. I’ve never said that Europe should de-industrialize.

I am in favour of industrial policy in Europe.

I just don’t like when Europeans complain that China’s industrial policy is “unfair”. I find it deeply hypocritical.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

You should probably be put on some state mandated conservatorship because you cannot navigate life. It’s a crime that your vote counts the same as mine.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

@L_Wastell @Docstockk @unherd @freddiesayers deserves opprobrium over this too. He didn’t stop talking like this for months. Dedicated whole shows to RW disinformation because of this event.

[Fengming Lu @FengmingLuPE]

Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate China’s EV sector?

My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative.

The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. 🧵

Based on 3+ years of fieldwork, 60+ interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players.

Here is the story: (1/15)

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

This is literally how cities work naturally. A wealthy core, a ring of poor dependents, and then a background field of non-dependent, non-wealthy communities.

That other American cities *don’t* look like this is evidence of a massive social engineering project by our government.

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

This seems like the sort of thing the DOJ should look into

At this point I don't even care if it's technically legal, it makes a mockery of our system of government to go around collecting ballots from fent zombies

[Keshav Lohia @Keshav_Lohiaaa]

Entire off-shore team in India (200+) was laid off by OpenDoor and is being replaced by smaller ai-native teams in the US.

This is a watershed moment in AI Ops. It shows how advancements in frontier models are paying off and how it affects the cost-arbitrage that made India a popular offshoring destination.

The entire outsourcing playbook has moved. Might see do away with ops-heavy workforces to nimble ai-native teams on-shore.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

This would mean that Freddie deBoer is in a monthslong, public feud with… Freddie deBoer

[Bird on Fire 🔥 @nobodyknows2322]

@Legal_Fil @_carmen_dioxide 'Coddled, Affluent Professional' is another , albeit he doesn't pretend to be a woman on that one I guess

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

I've come to realize that widespread voting by mail enables communists who hate me to effectively vote on behalf of the illiterate, the infirm, the easily led, and the non-English speaking

There is no plausible way to prevent this, therefore voting by mail must be abolished

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

A robot wouldn’t do this

[coinbilly @coinbilly]

Had this ever happened to anyone??

I booked an @Uber parcel delivery, the driver picked up what I needed and then canceled the ride.

Uber assigned the delivery to another driver, but the original driver took my stuff.

Support says they don’t see the ride.

@Uber_Support ???

[Real Political Data @RealPData]

Susan Collins is a patriot.

Whenever we need her to vote yes on something, she will be there. An actual team player working WITH the majority, not this horseshit like McConnell or Murkowski playing their games.

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

Murkowski has to go man. And McConnell has decided to stain an otherwise glittering career as one of the great Republican parliamentarians by shitting himself with bitterness.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

FAILED: The motion to attach the SAVE America Act to the budget reconciliation bill fails.

✅ 48 - ❌ 50

❌ Collins (R-ME)
❌ McConnell (R-KY)
❌ Murkowski (R-AK)
❌ Tillis (R-NC)

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

Would be even better if the journalist has an aside about how despite everything, they still liked visiting America more.

That would be a fun day on Twitter.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Here’s a prediction: during the World Cup, some foreign journalist or journalists (probably British) will complain about how unimpressive they find Toronto and/or Vancouver. This will then trigger an enormous collective conniption in the Canadian media.

[T @walterwhitepill]

When I was 11/12 my dad got a job in Mendoza, Argentina and my family moved down there. I was put in Spanish school, and we tried to do the whole expat family thing. This was 2007.

When the global economy crashed it whiplashed poorly managed countries like Argentina which was already struggling with inflation. There was a significant amount of blame placed on America as a country and gringos living in country as its representatives. Of the seven other American families in our suburb, five of them had armed or violent robberies and rapes happen in 2008. I recently learned from @Lady_Astor that the gringo blame was strongly encouraged by Argentina's (Cristina) Kirchner government. My family had a gunman incident and basically fled the country. The police, who we'd already bribed to come if we called (this was standard) wouldn't protect us.

Many of the other American families had been there longer and were better established than us. It didn't matter.

The experience has led me to be strongly against doing the international expat thing. Assuming that your native neighbors in New Zealand or Argentina will not see you as the most viable possible target should any shocks to the system occur is a potentially fatal mistake. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how well set up you are, when things get even moderately bad, you are an outsider. Never forget this.

[Glenn Pudick @GlennPudick]

If anyone is watching the Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton Campaigns, it is a good idea to remind you all that San Diego, a huge city, with a massive military presence, is run by a Commie lunatic, and the city is facing bankruptcy. The same fentanyl zombie drug camps that LA is dealing with, are all over our downtown as well....

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Cenk Uygur was denied entry to the UK because he mocked concern about grooming gang atrocities as “Islamophobic”

[David Algonquin @surplustakes]

Beyond parody

[Brian @Halcy0nDays_]

@PBanpoys @ScottMGreer My point is that Greer misrepresented Walsh’s argument.