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The biggest mistake governments are making about AI: They think AI is a software race. It isn't. It's an industrial infrastructure race. A nation without compute is a nation renting intelligence from someone else. A country that does not control: energy chips data centers AI infrastructure will become a customer. Not a competitor. We learned this lesson before. Oil shaped the 20th century. Compute will shape the 21st. AI policy cannot just be about safety and regulation. It needs to be about industrial strategy. Follow me if you want to understand the economy being built underneath AI.

We should have much lower tolerance for the nepo-baby communists They might seem too incompetent to be dangerous, but they are re-popularizing the most dangerous ideology of all time 100,000,000 people were killed by communists in the 20th century This is what happens every time communists gain critical power

🇺🇸🇯🇵🇰🇷⚔️🇨🇳🇰🇵🧵 HOW THE UNITED STATES TURNED JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA INTO IMPERIAL COLONIES AS PART OF ITS COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA AND THE DPRK American policy in the Asia-Pacific has always been centered in building up Japan’s industry and leveraging Tokyo’s power at the expense of the economic independence of other country’s in the region. This doctrine goes all the way back to the early 20th century as Theodore Roosevelt committed the United States to the establishment of a global empire and JP Morgan created a monopoly over large sectors of the American economy in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907. The Meiji Restoration, which established the Empire of Japan, brought industrialization and modernization to the Japanese economy. However, this was mostly done on the backs of foreign loans and had been a continuation of work already theorized in China under Sun Yat Sen, whose Three Principles (Nationalism, Democracy, People’s Livelihood) inspire Chinese socialism today and were based on the state-led economic frameworks of Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. Sun himself was educated in Hawaii by protégés of Lincoln. And it ultimately led to this notion among leaders in Tokyo that Japan is now becoming a partner of the Anglo-American Empire. A major reason why this was is because Theodore Roosevelt agreed in the Taft-Katsura Agreement that the United States would give Japan control over the Korean Peninsula if they did not interfere with Washington’s violent seizure of the Philippines. However, what Tokyo didn’t notice at first is that they were not becoming a regional empire but a proxy of American imperialism. From there, the groundwork was set for Japan’s wars of mass genocide against the people of China, Korea, Russia and across the Asian continent. After its war with Russia in 1905, Tokyo fully annexed Korea in 1910, which would then be used as a launching pad for their wars against China. The Japanese previously launched a failed war against China in 1894, after which European colonial empires set up spheres of influence as part of the Century of Humiliation. And then in 1931 and 1937, as a result of false flag incidents staged by the Japanese Kwantung Army along the South Manchuria Railway in Mukden and the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing, Japan launched the Asia-Pacific Theatre of World War II waging mass genocide and engaging in sexual exploitation against the people of China, Korea and across Asia. Unit 731 was established in Manchuria under the command of Dr. Shiro Ishii and with the approval of the puppet dictatorship in Japanese-occupied Manchuria led by former Emperor of the Qing Dynasty Puyi. 731 carried out some of the most cruel and tortuous human experimentations against civilian victims, including infecting prisoners with deadly diseases and amputating their limbs, conducting vivisection and organ harvesting, suffocating victims and hypobaric chambers and exposing prisoners to chemical, explosive and biological weapons. Even more outrageous is the fact that Ishii escaped prosecution after the US granted him immunity in exchange for research from Unit 731. And some of that research was used by the CIA for Project MKUltra.

finance could lean harder into the bull/bear thing. hedge fund employees even masc-er cowboys, herding bulls, protecting them from the bears ( in the mountains? so there's both bears and livestock). little bear&bull flourishes around the office...get early 20th century with it

The man who literally rebuilt modern mathematics from the ground up: Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014). He invented schemes, toposes, and étale cohomology, turning algebraic geometry into the most powerful language in all of math. What Hilbert started, Grothendieck finished. The most influential mathematician of the 20th century.

A Yale study tracked 3,635 people for 12 years and found that people who read books live 23 months longer than people who don't. Book readers were 20% less likely to die during the follow-up. The effect held even after researchers adjusted for income, education, health, and depression. Reading newspapers and magazines did not produce the same result. Only books did. The researchers said it was because books force the brain into deep reading and sustained focus that nothing else replicates. That is the part nobody on your timeline will tell you. The loudest voices on the internet right now are selling you the opposite. Stop reading. Watch this 90-second clip. Take this $497 course. Your brain is "too advanced" for books. Action over information. Chaos over thought. Now hold that next to what people who actually built something at scale say. Elon Musk was asked how he learned to build rockets. His answer was three words. "I read books." He was raised on Asimov's Foundation series, Heinlein, biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and the Encyclopedia Britannica which he finished at age nine. He has said books taught him more than any degree ever could. Warren Buffett spends 80% of his working day reading. He once held up a stack of paper in front of a class of students and said "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it." Charlie Munger said in his entire life he never met a wise person, across a broad subject area, who didn't read constantly. Not one. Naval Ravikant said it cleaner than anyone. "The foundation of learning is reading. I don't know a smart person who doesn't read, and reads all the time." He reads one to two hours a day. He says that single habit accounts for any material success he has ever had. 3 of the most consequential thinkers of this generation built their entire edge on the same boring habit. The AI era makes this more urgent, not less. Every week another tool launches that can summarize a book in 30 seconds. Every week another influencer tells you that summaries are "good enough." They are not. A summary gives you the conclusion without the thinking that built it. You walk away with the same headline as everyone else and zero original wiring underneath. The people building real things in AI right now are reading the source material. Everyone else is repeating compressed versions back to each other and calling it insight. If you are building in AI, the leverage is not in reading more AI threads. It is in reading the books the people building AI grew up reading. 5 books that have genuinely changed how I think this year. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. The clearest writing on wealth, leverage, and judgment ever compressed into a single book. The free PDF is on his website. Deep Work by Cal Newport. The reason most people building in AI feel busy and produce nothing. He explains exactly why and exactly what to do about it. How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. The Zettelkasten method that turned a German bureaucrat into the most prolific sociologist of the 20th century, rewritten for modern knowledge workers. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. If you want to understand what knowledge actually is and why human progress has no ceiling, this is the only book on the subject that matters. Range by David Epstein. The case for generalists in a world that keeps telling you to pick a lane at twenty. The most useful book I have read for thinking about a career in a domain that rewrites itself every six months. Search any one of them tonight. Buy the cheapest copy you can find. Start the first chapter before you sleep. The smartest people alive spent their entire careers telling you the same boring thing. The loudest people on the internet spent the last year telling you to ignore them and bought another car. One of these groups is building the future. The other one is hoping you do not notice. If you are someone like me who loves reading, drop your favorite book in the comments. I will read every single one.

london, july 1977. a 32-year-old reggae singer was diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma in his right big toe. the surgery his doctors offered would have saved his life. he refused on religious grounds. three years and ten months later bob marley was dead at 36. february 6 1945. nine mile, saint ann parish, jamaica. norval marley was a 60-year-old white english quartermaster. cedella booker was an 18-year-old black jamaican. they had one son. norval saw him three times before he died. the child grew up poor enough to walk barefoot to school. he was a rastafarian by 17. the faith reads the body as sacred and unalterable. the same reading rules out removing flesh, even to stop cancer. when the london doctors told him in 1977 that the melanoma in his toe was metastasizing, he chose a nail bed graft and partial removal of the nail instead. the cancer kept spreading. 1980. madison square garden. the wailers played two sold-out nights on the uprising tour. the next morning he went jogging in central park with friends. he collapsed. the doctors at sloan kettering told him the cancer was now in his lungs, his liver, and his brain. he was 35 years old. he flew to bavaria. doctor josef issels offered alternative therapy in a clinic outside rosenheim. laetrile, ozone injections, vegetable juice. marley followed the protocol for seven months while his weight dropped from 175 to 90 pounds. his hair fell out. he kept making music. he recorded the demo of "redemption song" at this stage on a cassette in his hospital bed. may 1981. the issels treatment failed. he asked to be flown home to jamaica. he made it as far as miami. cedars of lebanon hospital, miami. may 11 1981. he turned to his son ziggy and said "money can't buy life." he died at 11:45 that morning. he was 36. his funeral in jamaica eight days later was a state event. prime minister edward seaga gave the eulogy. michael manley gave the second. half a million people lined the route from kingston to nine mile. he was buried with his guitar, a soccer ball, a bible, and a stalk of cannabis. he had 11 children with 7 women. four of them perform reggae today. ziggy alone has won 8 grammys. the family runs an estate worth an estimated 200 million dollars in licensing alone. in 1999 time magazine named exodus the greatest album of the 20th century. it was recorded in london two months after the diagnosis the doctors told him would kill him in 18 months. the toe was the start. religion was the choice. the world has been singing his songs every day since.