Favorites January 15th 2023

August 2021, San Martin California

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

@mattyglesias The US has the strongest recovery in the G7!

Follow-ups: not many data points, but not much correlation between covid deaths and GDP recovery. USA is also slightly ahead of South Korea. UK is behind because of Brexit, and Japan has a few issues, including a lot of connection to the Chinese economy.

Paul Hsieh @PaulHsieh

The Grand Prize winner of the 2022 Bulwer-Lytton contest hails from CO! bulwer-lytton.com/2022

To be clear, these are not openings of actual books, this is a competition to write the worst opening for a non-existent book.

Threads

• Long thread discussing the current expectations for the future of tanks in warfare. TL;DR: You need to take and visibly hold territory, and tanks remain a significant part of that.