Thomas Chatterton Williams

Writer: @TheAtlantic. Faculty: @BardCollege. Trustee: @AmericanAcademy. Fellow: @GuggFellows, @AEI. Repped by: @APBspeakers, Wylie. 📕 Summer of Our Discontent

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

@Annalisa_Quinn @TheAtlantic Welcome!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

I'm a fan of City Journal, but in no universe is Arizona State better than any of these schools. None of the people who work at Manhattan Institute would send their kids to ASU over Vanderbilt, Princeton, or Stanford.

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Ezra Klein was bigger than Ross Douthat when both were at the Times. But over the same period when Douthat interviewed El-Sayed and Trump, Klein interviewed his editor and another colleague.

It’s funny how many people said this move didn’t make sense.
https://t.co/0tBK7UKGzf

[Édouard Geffray @EdouardGeffray]

Après des semaines de violences et plusieurs centaines de blessés, j'attends toujours une condamnation massive, unanime et sans ambiguïté des violences qui visent l’École, ses personnels et ses élèves.

La classe politique devrait se retrouver tout entière derrière son École. La défendre et appeler à faire cesser ces violences est une responsabilité commune. Toutes les revendications légitimes ont été entendues et trouvent actuellement des réponses. Le dialogue est permanent et fructueux.

Ceux qui s'en prennent à notre École et à nos personnels n'ont pas de revendications. Ils veulent nuire et empêcher les élèves d'avoir accès au premier de leurs droits, leur droit à l'instruction.

Je lance cet appel à toutes les forces politiques et organisations syndicales : condamnons tous clairement ces actes. Aucune revendication ne peut légitimer la violence.

Nos personnels et nos élèves ont besoin de notre soutien. Celui du Gouvernement est inconditionnel.

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Hundreds of schools across Italy, and some in Scotland and Ireland, received a wave of bomb threats on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest co-ordinated attack aimed at disrupting life in Europe https://t.co/aI9jAVzfWh

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

If you do not see this man, and his peers, as cult leaders, you are a fool. They are playing all angles simultaneously—doomsday cult, healing miracles cult, secret knowledge cult, messianic cult—and it’s been effective.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

This is another "must read" AI article in @nytimes. Jaron Lanier speaks with experience about Silicon Valley's ability to think fantastically about what their technology can do - to the point of radicalism.

He unpacks Anthropic's unusual & error-prone approach to safety, which is a direct result of their religious belief that AI models will one-day run the world and "manage the humans." It's this belief that causes them to approach safety through "alignment," vs control & constraint.

Regulators should understand that "building a technology that eventually controls us" is their ultimate goal or assumption. As such, this one company should be as far away from the regulation process as possible. (unfortunately they are actively in the mix).

The mid-terms were won on the message of being anti-big tech & anti-billionaire. This will be an interesting test. Anthropic has built the most-potent "billionaire machine" ever created. If they get to write the regulation, they will try to kill open-models, and create 10x more billionaires than they already have.

I will leave you with this from Jaron; "Someone’s metaphysical beliefs should be protected and are none of my business. It is also reasonable for nonbelievers to refuse the imposition of a religion from others."

https://t.co/ASkInCjQCs

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

Really interesting (and worrying) polling on French pensions

The electorate estimates that for every pensioner we have 6 workers.

In reality it's 1.8/1... Even in 1960s we weren't close to 6/1.

Melenchon's supporters think its 13/1.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

I chose my alma mater in large part because there was no Greek life. WTF is this?

[zach bitango @ZachBitango]

Ohio State University has suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity while an investigation is underway into a video showing two men catching fire during an incident at the fraternity.

OSU spokesperson? : "“The university is aware of this extremely concerning incident.."

Steve Mitchell, CEO of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said in a statement to Penn LIVE:

"We take this matter seriously and are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident while working closely with university officials and local law enforcement,” he said in a statement."

https://t.co/HnTY9kGy3y

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Well, the entire piece is really an examination of the psychology of people like Miller, who tend to start the clock on "When America was great" right around the time them/their ancestors arrived here. I think it's actually a pretty potent argument about the selectivity of the heritage American movement. https://t.co/pyQD4VfVVo

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

@SpyTalker Bloomberg had an even more exhaustive piece. No one took notice.
https://t.co/cZtffDgtsE

[Jeff Stein @SpyTalker]

Amazing: NYT published a Jensen Huang-Alice Huang-Megaspeed-Nvidia-China story 13 months ago—and no one evidently took notice.
https://t.co/Tb04Vr6AYm

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Trump has done many rotten things to the American republic. Lying about elections — and causing millions of people to distrust legitimate results — may be the worst.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

This research firm deserves credit, they used publicly available Singaporean business filings to pretty much nail the entire Alice Huang / Chinese front company buying NVIDIA chips scheme back in May https://t.co/n4egjdeSEF

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

@JacobALinker @RobGeorge Sometimes he’s amazing

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Ross Douthat had a far more commanding interview with Donald Trump than Ezra Klein had with Christopher Rufo.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

This Culper Report from May is devastating for Jensen: He personally used NVDA to inflate his GF's Chinese state company to the tune of BILLIONS which was openly flouting US law and then his company used Trump connections to shut down an investigation into his own doings

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

@EnswellJones @TheAtlantic Welcome!

[Rikki Schlott @RIKKISCHLOTT]

POV: your movement is about to squander every cent of its social capital in less than two years.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

A person can have good character and be a disastrous leader. Character is not enough. Good judgment and other qualities are also needed. But no one lacking in character can be a good leader. Character really is destiny--a man's, a party's, a nation's.