The Mind Scourge

It's Marvels Superheros, all the way down; today, we're all just actors There's a peculiar post-modern quality to many events these days. A sense that we perform history rather than act out (and in, and on) history. The appearance that we curate our actions for our social media…

Architecture is not stuck in China

What’s the outlook for Owens on the Macron lawsuit @mucha_carlos? I would assume Brigitte Macron is an all-purpose public figure, so I would think Owens has a strong defense for her (absurd) claim They cite the actual malice standard though, so maybe they’re hoping to find…

Something I’ve been following for awhile I can’t honestly see the US accepting a Chinese partner, but we will see

Ironically, this article is written just when airplane WiFi has been solved (Starlink) By 2030 every major airline will have it, and fast internet will just be there You don’t have to think about it anymore

Where the civilization of the sun is being built

The EU is a massive market, larger than the US in terms of total trade volume But it lacks a strong central executive. That matters The EU will have much less influence and impact internationally so long as it is basically run by committee Great powers with strong executive…

Dystopia? This is literally what utopia looks like - massive housing and insane projects like a manmade lake in the desert and a surf pool

I’m very interested in Luckin’s prospects in the US They’re taking the opposite strategy to Starbucks. Luckin is all about the app, mobile orders, the algorithm knowing what deals to push you Starbucks wants you to be that “third place” again We’ll see which wins out.

Modi is in Maldives. Here is something I wrote on Malé last January A very interesting place, very remote, few US visitors, but you can understand a lot about our world today by visiting places like this

Who leads Beijing matters Who’s the mayor of NYC doesn’t. The real power is in the media ecosystem. The city rises and falls independently of the mayor. You shouldn’t worry about it

This post made some people mad But you don’t even need to accept the basic premise - an Indo-American socio-cultural fusion in the short-term (c. 2100) and a long-term destiny for India at the center of the English-speaking world through sustained and intensive engagement with…

What if the long term historical function of the Anglosphere is the globalization of India? It seems virtually certain that Indian culture will reshape Anglo societies in fundamental ways. For a host of reasons, including linguistic, India will align more with the west and the…

The world isn’t on some edge of some apocalyptic tremor because Thailand and Cambodia are having a border clash, They also had border clashes in 2008 and the early 1990s by the way, The difference is the internet was barely evolved then and Twitter didn’t exist, so rightfully…

Women’s app: am I safe? Does he give the ick? Men’s app: on what date does she put out?

$10k spent in 2 weeks is to roughly 10x the median Japanese salary You’re going to living very well indeed in Japan at that rate

3 ways in which the 2030s will feel very different from the 2020s: 1. Strong verbal AI 2. Self-driving cars 3. Robotics Nothing particularly novel to those who spend a lot of time on X, but to normies all this will come as a great surprise (remember that 70% of Americans…

Another example of non-stuck art

This is why all those charts about China’s rapid growth in electrical generation aren’t a concern Electricity is plentiful in the US. The lack of it isn’t gating anything. If you need electricity for something in the US, you can get it

During his attempted pagan restoration, Julian created a novel order of pagan clergy to match the Christian one, sponsored by the state Trump’s cultural reformation appears to be doing the same thing, creating anti-semitism monitors and anti-DEI code enforcers and the like But…