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@benjamincowen @PeterSchiff Zing lol

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

"It's very important not to politicise a personal tragedy."

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@KobeissiLetter Yes

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"You are not likely to see Henry Nowak’s words stenciled on a mural. No corporation will change its logo. The same establishment that made a few words immortal when spoken by a black man in Minneapolis has met the same words, spoken by a white boy dying on a British street, with what can only be described as a determined, institutional silence. That silence is not neutral. It is a statement. It tells you exactly whose suffering the system has decided counts, and whose does not."

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

@BenjaminNorton 🧐🧐

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@IamEmily2050 @ASUS This

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@ImNotTheWolf Ritardo

[Balaji @balajis]

I'm sorry you feel that way, but conversely I welcome you to visit Singapore or Bangalore. Your TikTok videos are entertaining, you're a smart guy, you're underemployed relative to your talents, and I genuinely wish you only the best.

On the substance:

(a) I've backed countless tools for zero-knowledge privacy, anti-surveillance, and Internet freedom, which is obviously direct opposed to the Communist Party's ideology. However, I grudgingly respect their competence because I am a realist.

(b) The degree to which one's success is attributable to a country's platform is hard to separate out. Obama said to conservatives: "you didn't build that, someone else made that happen." That is certainly one view, that 100% of success was due to the country platform, and zero to the individual.

(c) Another view, however, is that we should run the experiment. As the original post noted, tech was able to decentralize out of Europe. Tech is clearly also successful outside California, as per Elon and others in Texas and Florida. Will it be successful outside of America? I think it will be, I think it already is, and I think it will unfortunately have to be...given the growing anti-tech and anti-trade backlash.

(d) Next, most of the world economy is now in Asia. I do think it's worth traveling to Asia to calibrate, to simply see that much of the former "third world" really isn't, that there are trade partners here, and that not everyone is about to invade each other once the US military pulls out. There is greater social cohesion in Asia broadly, of the kind 1950s America once had, and that I hope you can attain again.

(e) Finally, even if the US government fails, even if the polarization proves too much, even if the $175T in debt takes down a once-amazing country, the Internet will be there. It was built to outlast a nuclear attack, it reflects the best of American values — free trade, free markets, free speech, free exchange of ideas — and I believe we can rebuild from it, just as Europe rebuilt from Christianity after Rome.

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@ImNotTheWolf I love this way of reading your analysis. Thanks for putting it together Mr Wolf

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@vaxryy @NewAgeRetroNerd Agreed. It’s childish

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@_katetolo @maggielove_ I’m already relating whatever you find to help my wife so you’re actively doing this for us

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@siimland Live a bit longer AND live well/with good mobility is worth it alone IMO

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: CERN observed a particle in two places at once

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@beffjezos Don't you have loads of support

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@beffjezos Yes. Ignore it! We appreciate you

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@beffjezos I bet this will get fixed

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@ritu_twts Go

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

The mechanism by which the United States government finances itself in 2026 is, when you actually trace the flow of money, an accounting magic trick so brazen that it should, in any honest country, be a national scandal, and the only reason it is not is that 99% of the population has never been taught how it works, and the 1% who have been taught have been carefully trained to use language that obscures rather than reveals what is actually happening.

The trick goes like this. Congress authorizes spending it does not have. The Treasury issues bonds to fund the spending. The primary dealer banks, who are required by their charter to buy these bonds at auction, take them onto their balance sheets. The Federal Reserve, which is a private banking cartel wearing a government uniform, then buys those same bonds from the primary dealers in the secondary market, paying for them with dollars that did not exist before the Fed pressed a button to create them. The Fed now holds the bonds. The Treasury pays interest on the bonds to the Fed. The Fed, at the end of the year, remits its "profits," which is to say, the interest it just collected from the Treasury, back to the Treasury. The loop closes. The government has, in a precise structural sense, just spent money by printing it, while every official statement, every press release, every PhD economist on cable television insists that this is not what is happening, that the Fed is independent, that the dollar is sound, and that anyone questioning the arrangement is a crank, a conspiracy theorist, or a goldbug.

Every single currency that has ever run this trick at scale, across the entire 4,000 year recorded history of monetary debasement, has eventually been destroyed by it. Weimar Germany ran the trick and produced a wheelbarrow currency in 1923. Argentina has run the trick four separate times and produced four separate currency collapses. Zimbabwe ran the trick and produced trillion-dollar notes that became wallpaper. Venezuela ran the trick and produced the largest peacetime collapse of a middle-class society in modern history. Turkey is running the trick right now, in real time, in front of the entire world, and the lira has lost 85% of its value against the dollar in five years while the official rhetoric continues to insist that everything is fine. The United States is not exempt from monetary physics. The United States has run the trick longer and more successfully than any country before it, only because the dollar has a unique structural advantage as the global reserve currency, an advantage that is, in 2026, eroding faster than at any point since 1971.

The gold price is telling you what the economists will not. Gold has gone from $1,200 in 2015 to north of $4,000 in 2026, and the people who tell you this is irrelevant are the same people who told you, in every previous monetary regime change in history, that the price action in gold was an artifact, a speculation, a temporary distortion, and they have been wrong every single time, in every single country, in every single decade since the discipline of monetary economics was invented. Gold is not an asset class. Gold is a referendum on the currency, and the currency is, by every honest measure, in the late stages of a multi-decade debasement that the official statistics have been carefully designed to obscure.

You do not need to predict the timing of the breakdown. You need to recognize that the loop, as currently constructed, cannot continue indefinitely, and that the people who position themselves on the right side of the eventual repricing, in real assets, in productive businesses, in commodities, in fixed-rate long-duration debt against hard collateral, and in the one monetary metal that has functioned as money continuously for 5,000 years, will be the ones who exit the regime change with their wealth intact, while the people who continued to hold the currency, the bonds denominated in the currency, and the cash savings calibrated to a 2% inflation target that exists only in government press releases, will be, in due time, the ones explaining to their grandchildren what it was like to live through the slow-motion default of the world's reserve currency. The math is the math. The history is the history. The trick has never worked forever. It will not work forever this time. The only question that matters is which side of the trade you are on when the loop finally breaks, and the answer to that question is being decided, right now, by the asset allocation choices you are making, or refusing to make, in the years that remain before the rest of the world figures out what a tiny minority of people, holding gold and real assets in 2026, already understand.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gilles, je vais démonter ta prémisse de départ, parce que tout le reste de ton argument s'effondre avec elle.

Tu pars du principe qu'il faut une « sensibilité de gauche » pour ne pas laisser créver les gens de faim. C'est l'inverse total de ce que dit l'histoire économique des 50 dernières années.

Les chiffres bruts.

1990 : 2,3 milliards de personnes en pauvreté extrême. 38% de l'humanité.
2025 : 831 millions. Environ 10%.

1,5 milliard d'êtres humains sortis de la misère absolue en 35 ans. La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l'histoire de l'espèce.

Qui a fait ça ?

Pas l'aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la « sensibilité de gauche ».

Le marché. L'ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng en 1978 qui abandonne le maoisme. L'Inde en 1991 qui libéralise. Le Vietnam, l'Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s'ouvrent au capitalisme.

Les seuls endroits où l'extrême pauvreté a EXPLOSÉ sur la même période ? Le Vénézuela socialiste : de 27% de pauvres en 2008 à plus de 80% en 2018, avec une inflation de 130 000% et un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos par dénutrition. La Corée du Nord. Cuba. Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.

La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres. Elle les fabrique.

Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique. Un pauvre US a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, l'air conditionné, internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.

Ton argument selon lequel « le social aux USA est un désastre » repète une légende française. La réalité : le PIB par habitant américain est de 80 000$. Français : 45 000$. Un Mississippien — l'État US le plus pauvre — a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.

La vérité que la gauche française refuse de regarder : dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.

ÊTRE de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n'est pas avoir de la « sensibilité ». C'est ignorer 35 ans de preuves accablantes. C'est préférer la posture morale au résultat.

La compassion sans résultats, ça s'appelle de la vanité.