The brilliant tylercowen joins Anna Gát 🧭 for a lively, wide-ranging conversation exploring hope from the perspective of insiders and outsiders, the obsessed and the competitive, immigrants and hard workers. They talk about talent and luck, what makes America unique, whether

A friend shared this The Atlantic article with me (from July). It's an analysis that purports to show how racist Grok 4 is. But it does so without fully revealing its methods and by pointing to implementation artifacts (like variable names and historical examples) as evidence of

Colleges don't make people woke. They select for wokeness: "As a result of the selection criteria and processes universities use, in addition to filtering for people who are smart, conscientious, and conformists, they also end up filtering for people who have unique cognitive

Ezra Klein responds to the torrent of criticism rained down on his tribute to Charlie Kirk and doubles down on his praise. “It is too little to just say we oppose political violence. In ways that surprise me, given what I thought of his project, I was and am grieving for Kirk

I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first! See the video or get the print below 👇

Andrew Sullivan: “We all became used to soft-liberal bias on TV and newspapers for years like background music, and it didn’t delegitimize them entirely. We let it go. They kept up a veil of respectability, a wispy fig leaf of balance over their leftist privates. We sighed and

Jimmy Kimmel had 129,000 adult, core-age followers who watched his show for at least two minutes nightly. I have 151,000 twitter followers, many/most of whom genuinely do engage the page. This is the elephant in the room with traditional broadcast media - their $40,000,000

Progress at our datacenter in Abilene. Fun to visit yesterday!

Today the White House reiterated its position on AI regulation and governance to the UN Security Council. 'We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI.'

Basically, blue-state progressives have convinced themselves that Black people are innately ineducable, and then talk a lot of bullshit about why it's actually antiracist to think that. While centrists in red states are just making sure Black people get a good education.

DEI: Des Moines all-Democrat, all-female school board hired a new superintendent based purely on his skin color. Not only was he an illegal alien and a fugitive from justice, he lacked the basic education and experience to lead the state's largest school district. Armed with an

🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova. After reviewing the channels

Scott Aaronson has, for the first time, put out a paper in which a key technical step in the proof of the main result came from AI. He describes his process using GPT5-Thinking. 'There's not the slightest doubt that, if a student had given it to me, I would've called it clever'

This sight never gets old

Fundamentally, the goal of the international Palestine movement is to destroy Israel, by continuing and winning the war of 1948. A movement focused on creating a Palestinian state that coexists alongside Israel would have won by now.

The story of how a mathematician revolutionized the tennis forehand in the 1970s.

The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. quantamagazine.org/origami-patter…

The larger V3 Starlink satellites that will deploy from Starship will bring gigabit connectivity to users and are designed to add 60 Tera-bits-per-second of downlink capacity to the Starlink network. That's more than 20 times the capacity added with every V2 Mini launch on

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