Dmitri Alperovitch@DAlperovitch
I am sure the Taiwanese people just can’t wait to be “re-educated” in concentration camps like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I mean, who wouldn’t, right?
巴丢草 Badiucao @badiucao
Taiwan: "After reunification, we will do re-education", says the Chinese ambassador to France
Re-education is refering to Uyghur concentration camps and genocide
https://t.co/l8YyK1qqEX
5:21 AM · Aug 5, 2022
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Reza Zadeh@Reza_Zadeh
Real unicorns are companies that have 1bn+ in ARR.
wsj.com
Databricks Says It Has Surpassed $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue
3:35 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Comfortably Numb 🇺🇦@YGalanter
@SpiroAgnewGhost
3:44 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Edward-Isaac Dovere@IsaacDovere
in latest edition of his monthly newsletter, @Schwarzenegger (a proud Republican) endorses the Inflation Reduction Act reconciliation deal expected to get 0 votes from Senate Republicans.
"The biggest investment any country has ever made in clean energy is a big fucking deal."
4:41 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Good thread.
I do think that Google's AI research divisions are our closest modern-day equivalent of Bell Labs. Google dominates every top university in terms of AI publications!
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang @KwekuOA
Another thread on classic industrial R&D labs. Bell Labs was the birthplace of information theory. Nine Nobel prizes(!) and four Turing awards(!!). I’m mostly quoting this neat new .@Nature article on how they operated with actual quotes.
https://t.co/zEqhxcxRts
5:02 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
The best formula for a viral tweet is:
1. Reasonable, well-grounded point in the first half
2. Ideologically appealing Big Lie in the second half
5:18 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Senator Stanley Chang@stanleypchang
After four years of frustration in the Legislature, this year we finally enacted the enabling legislation to build Singapore style social housing in Hawaii.
newsweek.com
Social housing gains momentum in Hawaii | Opinion
10:20 PM · Aug 5, 2022
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
because @JerusalemDemsas is a smart and thoughtful person, she zooms out from the obvious gotcha to make a serious point about how asking local governments to do the right thing on housing is doomed theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
2:31 AM · Aug 5, 2022
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Hal Brands@HalBrands
This crisis is only the beginning. US is running out of time to prevent an aggressive, insecure China from starting a cataclysmic war in the Western Pacific. A @WSJ long weekend essay adapted from Danger Zone, my new book with Mike Beckley.
wsj.com
The Coming War Over Taiwan
12:28 PM · Aug 4, 2022
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