Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski

For @AmericanAffrs I outlined the evolution of Emmanuel Todd's views: from Gaullist non-alignment to the belief that Trump would save Europe from German hegemony, culminating in his disillusionment after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/how-th…

If one were somehow to actually meet a European noble of any time before about the 16th century, they would seem bizarrely paradoxical from the modern standpoint - both more brutal and more principled; capable of unimaginable sinfulness and violence but also of profound…

Let's learn from Canada: The moment for Europe to be serious about deepening the Single Market

“The company has once again become a subject of debate on both sides of the Atlantic ” — @ktdrozdowski reviews House of Huawei, by Eva Dou thecritic.co.uk/how-dangerous-…

So the US is going to have a Japanese financed industrial policy in the United States? Somewhat confused by the both the deal, and the Trump administration's general approach to industrial policy and industrial strategy (h/t @reziemba)

Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ nature.com/articles/s4422…

Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.

“About 50 per cent of China’s economy is dysfunctional, and about 5 per cent is going remarkably well" - @danwwang This sounds a bit more downbeat than what we read in 'Technological momentum'!

This is basically affirmative action for boring people.

Drones cleaning solar panels continuously in Xinjiang solar farms w/o damaging surfaces. Post cleaning, solar panel efficiency increase 5-20% & increase 100MWh power per day

The numbers are shocking: Colombia's and Chile's Total Fertility Rates are close to Japan's.

It looks like many of the cult classics from the ’80s were financed by the boom in high-yield - pardon, junk - bond trading. Back then, movies could be used as a way to avoid taxes. Thank you Michael Milken

Spot-on take by Wolf on the UK’s stagnation: 1) No serious political camp is thinking about how to boost productivity growth. 2) The Thatcher experiment has ultimately proven to be a failure (an intermezzo at best)

If Latin America reindustrializes under Chinese impulse, it will require a profound redefinition of what remains of the Monroe Doctrine

If you care about utilitarianism and public policy, you should be thinking more about airports. There’s so much you can learn from them. They deliver something objectively amazing — teleportation around the planet for the price of a few hours of labor — and yet people hate…

There are writers whose violence of thought or mood can only be fully appreciated when you're very young. That's why you should read Nietzsche or Cioran early. By your 30s, their flaws make them feel more distant. Your 30s, though, are the best time for other writers, like Conrad

Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you're going to get them into a top university in this country, you're fooling yourself... What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and…

There aren’t enough AI chips to support data center projections Projected data center demand from U.S. power market would require 90% of global chip supply through 2030. “Such a scenario is unrealistic,” the report concluded. utilitydive.com/news/not-enoug…

Europe has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

AI image generation 3D "game engines" seem to have reached some critical ability threshold recently (not there yet of course, but much improved over a couple months ago). Here is another one, Odyssey, that lets you wander around virtual worlds where each frame is AI generated.