
A technothriller in 1982 that posited that in the year 2022, Russia would be going to war using 47 year old jets and Iranian munitions would be instantly yeeted by any editor for implausibility—at least if it lacked a background of glowing craters left by WW3 to explain it.

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent

Corporate America’s spiking concern over Taiwan
Cc: @Noahpinion @ElbridgeColby @RanaForoohar @nfergus


Out of curiosity, I installed @OpenAI's new Whisper speech recognition system on my Mac and gave it the first 4 minutes of the latest @appstoriesnet.
The transcription is...incredible. Click play here (appstories.net/episodes/296) and read Whisper's results: dropbox.com/s/0hn0bssqg0rn…


This @nytimes article about Putin taking even more direct control over battlefield decisions in the war and refusing to allow Russian forces to pull back to the east bank of the Dnipro, has overwhelming vibes of Hitler refusing to let the 6th Army pull back at Stalingrad.


This morning, @CBSMornings ran a story on gas stoves to 2.5 million viewers.
Did they mention gas stoves increase the risk of asthma? No.
Did they question a gas industry rep who claimed gas is "clean and safe"? No.
Instead they spread fossil fuel industry lies.
🧵

Wow. 65% of American evangelicals deny original sin, and 43% deny Jesus’ divinity. So, literal heretics! But 90%+ are resolute against extramarital sex and abortion.
@kkdumez’s argument that evangelicalism is a culture rather than an set of beliefs has never looked stronger.





Why are college dorms good enough for extremely privileged college students to spend multiple years living in, but essentially physical identical SROs are not good enough for anyone else, even people whose only alternative is sleeping on the streets?

The Goddamned Penguin @who_shot_jgr

Peter Thiel’s theory of California’s decline has several problems, writes @TheEconomist
“In the past five years, California’s state-level GDP has grown by 18%, a better performance than either Florida or Texas”
@Noahpinion @Jason @mollywood @chavkin
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
