玄奘

Seeking the other shore.

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@tao_lin Do you like piano trios?

[Jason Pedlow 💙 @JasonPedlow]

A true British hero.

(The guy telling the Conservative c*** to f*** off, that is)

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Sometimes I understand what Soviet censorship was for

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@StealthQE4 Flawed logic since to be accurate he should factor in the savings from not renting. Perhaps home ownership is a better deal than renting, perhaps not. But just pointing out that “living somewhere” is not inherently profitable is not interesting or insightful

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Most people don't know the first iPhone was designed in 1994 by a company called General Magic, which started as an Apple project in 1989 when Marc Porat convinced then-CEO John Sculley the future of compute was a multimedia phone with touch screen

Jobs wasn't involved at all 🧵

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@Halcius_ @maityman Same. It is one of the only places where you really need to navigate in three dimensions. Endless fun, and so cool seeing how many historical layers come together to create this experience!

[Anya Martin @AnyaM8_]

No space in prisons? Build prisons ❌ Let criminals walk free ✅

Water supply problem? Build reservoir ❌ Water rationing ✅

Housing shortage? Build homes ❌ Literally anything else ✅

Energy crisis? Build infra ❌ Energy rationing ✅

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@tao_lin I once ate 15 apples straight from the tree then fell asleep in the sun, it was nice, but too many apples.

[Jprwg @jprwg]

Stanley Kubrick: I set my film in the most unpleasant brutalist estates I could find as a cautionary tale

Housing Activists: at long last, we can preserve the estates from the classic film Look How Horrible These Estates Are

[David Galbraith @daveg]

All of the above is because I’m proud to be European. Post War Europe was the Goldilocks zone, globally. With grand scale innovation, peaceful resolution between nations, democracy,diverse and unsurpassed cultural heritage and a social pact that delivered health, education and a safety net. It was a balance between rewarding effort and protecting against bad luck. But the alarm bells, that that could end, without reform, should be deafening.

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@heatpolicyrich Oh no

Anyway

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@johanknorberg Oh look another idiot deliberately conflating income and wealth to suit his idiotic agenda

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

This tweet has got a lot of people talking about why Britain seems so short of electric railways.

15 years ago, it was about to be very different. And then things went very wrong. 🧵

[Adam Smith Institute @ASI]

Managed decline is on track to deliver two lost decades 😔

[玄奘 @undeterrent]

@lottelydia This example is particularly funny because it’s really obvious to any person with a three digit IQ why studying past policy and trade might be really useful to inform decisions about present policy and trade. Or maybe policy and trade are also woke now idk

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Conservatives when someone actually pulls themselves up by their bootstraps

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Self driving and self service KFC food truck in China

[Jeff McFadden @JeffAndDonkeys]

For some unknown reason new people still occasionally follow me even though I hardly ever post anymore.
But for new and old, a quick personal story.
I posted for 6 years about a real way that developed societies could have stepped back from the brink of ecosystem collapse. 🧵

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

ARCTIC METHANE HYDRATE VENTING
(low level) Alaska north slope, East Siberian Arctic shelf
Vast amounts of methane established
3 Mar 2024, Copernicus https://t.co/rN4v11TsZf
#methane #climatechange #globalwarming