Rakesh Bhandari

Where are the journalists? At Walter Cronkite's CBS? Or at People Magazine? Who knows?

Thread makes sense but offered as only as plausible.

Why would Putin have most of his assets in Russia? Would he not be keen to keep them out of reach of Russians?

Fuck. Will the US really never catch up in materials science? My daughter is going to grad school next year at one of the US's best grad schools in material sciences. Should she go work for an AI company instead that won't use more math than she learned by her sophomore year or work in finance?

Will the US really never catch up in materials science? My daughter is going to grad school next year at one of the US's best grad schools in material sciences. Should she go work for an AI company instead that won't use more math than she learned by her sophomore year or work in finance?

American hegemony began in Fordism; it may end in fossil fascism.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous this is.

Usual rule of thumb is that you don’t need to attribute evil when some actions can be explained by stupidity.

Here it’s the other way around.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

just another bit of bad news
that will devastate our children's lives

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

On the power situation in Puerto Rico to which Bad Bunny called attention. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end... Trump doesn't do Infrastructure Weeks in Puerto Rico. He does Destruction Terms.

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

This isn't communitarianism but anti-globalization. Many understood that the globalization enabled by container ships and declining telecommunication costs, coupled with immigration, would lead to a fierce counter-reaction to maintain Western living standards.

Why aren't those who voted for mass deportation or negative net migration or the whitening of their America in red states not angry at Noem for not having ICE to do big ethnic cleansing operations in their communities?

I suspect that this will be a partisan weapon or a weapon used more by some political tendencies than others. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Those too cowardly to admit the obvious after some time lose the cover of cowardice and join the monstrous.

Alex Pretti, a person of honor, is dead because he was moved to action by the treatment of immigrant neighbors, the brutal murder of Nicole Renee Good, and the thuggish treatment of a peaceful woman protestor moments before he was pepper-sprayed in the face, beaten, and shot ten times.

This was a bad joke.

Let's be generous to Trump. Let's say Putin has him by the balls & has told him to seize Greenland. He doesn't want to break up NATO so he gives the stupidest reason imaginable for doing so, confident that the GOP Congress will do something to stop him. But then the GOP Congress doesn't do anything

Let's be generous to Trump. Let's say Putin has him by the balls & has told him to seize Greenland. He doesn't want to break up NATO so he gives the stupidest reason imaginable for doing so, confident that the GOP Congress will do something to stop him. But then the GOP Congress doesn't do anything

The most important chart for understanding the energy landscape in 2026. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Even today, some things can be said with absolute certainty. These lines will never cross again. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Plenty that is baffling these days, but few things are more baffling than some major auto companies looking at this global trend and deciding NAH, NOT FOR ME

Fck it? as the sociologist Kieran Healy once recommended?

We don’t need terabytes of data; LLMs are no match for us in becoming biddable intelligent agents. 2/2

Learning language is learning what not to say; it is learning what’s prohibited for whom and when. The poverty of stimulus argument works best not in terms of acquisition of language but in an understanding of prohibition. 1/2

Grok can’t compete with us in how fast we learn the boundaries of acceptable speech and behavior. It is a dubious advantage that we have over these new forms of intelligent beings.

CBS News just cut a segment in which an expert explained why the ICE agent who killed Nicole Good violated procedure. I think of how quickly humans learn what the boundaries of discussion are. We don’t need terabytes of data. Language is a system of prohibitions that we learn frighteningly fast

Grok can’t compete with us in how fast we learn the boundaries of acceptable speech and behavior. It is a dubious advantage that we have over these new forms of intelligent beings.