Pretty cool that General Motors was able to retool a car factory to make the outer shells of the Patriot missiles. They've managed to make the delivery to Lockheed just 22 days after signing the contract. (22 days!!!!! We still got it...🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸) Lockheed says this work normally takes months or years for the previous supplier (General Dynamics) to fulfill. There's a strain of neoliberal thinking that says if domestic carmakers can’t compete, they should just be allowed to fail. No bailouts. Just let Japan or China make cars because of comparative advantage or whatever. Imagine if we had believed that automobile manufacturing was something to offshore. It's now clear that the argument for preserving that industrial base is not simply nostalgia for a previous bygone era. It simply is the case that you cannot improvise precision manufacturing overnight once it has disappeared.

One of the most toxic fallouts from the Trump years is this reflexive need a lot of people have to automatically side with anyone going up against him. Mark Carney is banking on that and exploiting it hard. He knows the press will paint Trump as the irresponsible, blustery provocateur in the collapsing Canada-US trade talks, so by going all-out against Trump he scores easy political points.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ The truth of the matter is that the playing field has been uneven and unfair between Canada and the US for decades. Canada imposes lofty tariffs - sometimes nearly 300% - on American cheese and milk once a tiny quota is filled, and they even give the Europeans better access than they give the Americans. Provinces yanked American wine and spirits off the shelves in government liquor stores. They hit US cars with extra tariffs and quotas. Softwood lumber has been a long-running game too. But the biggest problem is the Chinese back-door scam: steel, auto parts, and EVs from China get lightly processed or just relabeled in Canada, then shipped into America under USMCA rules so they dodge the tariffs Trump put on Beijing. That lets China keep flooding the North American market, undercutting American (and Canadian) workers, and basically laundering its way around the sanctions and trade barriers meant to stop its cheating. The Trump admin wants to end the free ride and make Canada shut down the transshipment loophole that China is exploiting. Carney walking away from a near-done deal and playing the victim just keeps Canada in bed with Beijing while American (and Canadian) workers pay the price.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And he’s hoping you don’t look beyond the headlines and find out the truth

Btw this is not a brain fart: El-Sayed obviously knows the difference between circumcision and castration. He just can’t say it out loud without pissing off the trans activists who make up his base now. This is pure queers for palestine brain rot and it’s hilarious watching Muslim DSA types get caught out in non-Euclidean moral geometries that collapse the moment anyone measures them. Because he is locked into defending every absurd piece of gender ideology, he can’t actually answer Jesse Waters’ simple question of whether he supports gender-affirming care for under 18 year olds. So his pivoting to “what about circumcision” is just a tactic to appear as gender-affirming as he possibly can

People laughing at the Chinese robots crashing after the 100m race or asking what's the point of developing humanoid robots even are missing the bigger picture. Remember when JFK said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." <> Human locomotion, let alone a full blown sprint, is mechanically very hard. A two legged robot that has to balance on one foot repeatedly, predict where its center of mass is moving, absorb impact, coordinate many joints and correct errors within milliseconds, is solving problems at the absolute edge of physics, control theory, and real-time intelligence. When you iterate and solve these problems, regardless of how impractical it seems, you go a long way to advancing a frontier of what machines can be in the physical world, of knowledge than can open up far more applications you don't even know exist yet. That's what the goal of putting a man on the moon did for NASA and the USA. This is a Sputnik moment and we are still laughing and dunking on crashing robots and canceling data centers over climate concerns, the very infrastructure required to train the models and run the simulations that would close the gap. Shaun called the gap existential because it is. Nations that treat hard problems as serious problems shape the future. Nations that stand by and watch do not. We used to know this.

Did you guys read Ender's Game? Because this is right out of Ender’s Game, except the kids in Battle School are Chinese state researchers, the “simulations” are real influence ops, and the Formics (aliens) are.... us. In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender Wiggin spends years inside elaborate digital simulated arenas, commanding fleets, testing strategies, iterating tactics against an enemy he never truly meets - essentially playing video games and being tested against other players. Every variable is controlled, every response measured, every weakness probed until victory is inevitable. There's a twist at the end which I won't ruin for those who haven't read it. This is what the Chinese are doing now to the West. They scraped 171 million open X posts, inferred age, race, ideology, party, gender resentment, election skepticism - modeling the whole American psyche essentially - and spun up a million-agent digital twin of the US electorate. They can dial up synthetic Pennsylvania voters, feed them a tax-and-redistribution message, watch the reaction in multi-round conversations, refine it, and measure swing-state impact with claimed 47-of-51 accuracy. They model Trump’s “dependable right-wing base.” They map MAGA content and influencer networks. Their own documents call it “cognitive-domain confrontation and guidance.” Parts of the system are already being used by the PLA and intelligence units. Guys, are you paying attention yet? They are playing Sims with the American population!!! LOL WE are the NPCs. This is completely an asymmetrical war as we have no reciprocal capability whatsoever. China is a black box thanks to The Great Firewall and total data sovereignty. We cannot access a corpus of ordinary Chinese citizens for any American lab to scrape. We cannot build a million-agent model of the Chinese public. We cannot test messages on synthetic Shanghainese factory workers or Chengdu nationalists. We cannot A/B test narratives about Taiwan, the economy, or Party legitimacy and watch the simulated reaction in real time. We do not even know what the average Chinese person thinks because they've been cut off from our information platforms. We live in a glass house while they live in a fortress. Every American rant, every demographic signal, every cultural fracture is harvested, modeled, and weaponized. Meanwhile, their population remains opaque, unmodeled, and unreachable. Beijing now possesses a live, continuously updated war-game of the American mind. We possess nothing comparable about theirs. A whole new level of Unrestricted Warfare has been unlocked. We are really not ready for this

“Grandpa, I just don’t understand. How was it that given how powerful the United States was, China was able to overtake us and dominate the world?” “Well.. it all started when they examined the whiteness of physics"

DEI advocates always want to have their cake and eat it too. You cannot demand collective racial engineering via race-conscious hiring, diversity quotas and preferential pipelines and then turn around and say, "Y U NO TREAT US AS INDIVIDUALS" when something like Jason Arday dominates the headlines. You are the ones who elevated identity as a credential. “We need more BAME professors” was the explicit slogan. “Cambridge’s youngest Black professor” was the explicit marketing line when Jason Arday was appointed in 2023. Sorry but this is just the predictable consequence of the framework you imposed. For white people (and East Asians), it's the other way around. Under DEI regimes that systematically disadvantage them in favor of BAME representation, a white / Asian person who still reaches an elite post has typically done so IN SPITE OF their identity, not because of it. That raises the prior probability that they cleared a higher bar. When such a person later plagiarizes or fabricates, the failure attaches to them as an individual; it does not put “whiteness” or the legitimacy of white presence on trial because their ascent was never framed as a racial deliverable in the first place. DEI’s central bargain was always unstable. The price of that bargain is that group outcomes, positive or negative, become fair game for judgment. This idea that you can demand that universities treat people as racial collectives for the purpose of preferential inclusion and then COMPLAIN when a high-profile failure is treated as an indictment of the collective logic that put them there in the first place is so laughable.

To understand just how irredeemably messed up academia is, compare the differences in how Cambridge treated Jason Arday and how Harvard treated Roland Fryer. One is a black sociologist; the other is a black economist. At this point, we are all very well acquainted with Jason Arday’s insane fabrications, plagiarism, and less-than-stellar research record. Yet he became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history at 37. Now look at the case of Roland Fryer. He produced rigorous, data-driven research, published extensively, and ran a major institute (EdLabs) at Harvard. He doggedly pursued the truth on one of the most charged questions in American public life. His landmark 2016 study titled “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force” examined millions of encounters and officer-involved shootings. It found that there were no racial differences in the raw data or after controlling for circumstances. In some datasets (notably Houston), blacks were actually less likely to be shot once the encounter was underway. As you know, this finding directly contradicted Black Lives Matter’s core orthodoxy that police systematically and disproportionately kill Black men out of racial animus. It was not only in vogue at the time; it was literally religion. Roland Fryer and his data were guilty of blasphemy. Harvard launched investigations into allegations of verbal sexual harassment and a hostile work environment in his lab. The process produced a two-year unpaid suspension, the permanent shutdown of EdLabs, and severe restrictions on his ability to advise or supervise. All this was investigated by a kangaroo court under Title IX. The recommendation for his alleged failings was sensitivity training, yet a faculty panel escalated it into career-crippling punishment. Fryer has said he was unfairly targeted because of the political inconvenience of his results. The contrast between how the academy treated these two men shows you how deep the moral rot is.

This sent a genuine chill through me. It’s been far too long since anyone channelled the unflinching spirit of Christopher Hitchens - his moral clarity, his refusal to flinch in defence of the West, and his readiness to articulate the irreconcilable aspects of Islamic culture. Bravo @LozzaFox

While these 10 American states couldn’t be arsed to decorate even a booth at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in DC for the America 250 celebrations: CT, IL, MN, MA, NC, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA Meanwhile in Japan… 🇯🇵🇺🇸 They threw a stunning fireworks + drone show celebrating America’s 250 years of freedom right in front of the Rainbow Bridge. Thank you, Japan. We see you. ❤️

This is such a dumb way to look at the world. This is the real difference between being black and being say, Muslim. If you’re Muslim, you belong to the Ummah - a global community that carries a clear expectation that you stand with any team representing an Islamic nation. That loyalty is woven into the identity itself. But being black, though? It’s simply a race. Nothing more. It has no ideology. No compulsory allegiance. There is no doctrine or contract demanding you cheer for one side over another based on skin color or distant ancestry. I saw so many black fans proudly wearing England shirts yesterday at the Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta at the game. Some were British by birth, others were from Commonwealth countries. Some simply grew up watching the Premier League and so love the English national team with all their heart. They chose England because they wanted to, not because any collective told them they had to. As a black person, you are ideologically free. You get to support whoever or whatever moves you. If you feel you have to support the African team because you're black, I'm sorry to say but it means that your mind is in chains.