* OIL INDUSTRY WARNS US ENERGY CRISIS WILL LIKELY WORSEN: WSJ @bloomberg.com

Goooood morning Asia!

Pondering U.S. foreign policy (in general and in particular) with this 80s gem… 🤪 open.spotify.com/track/4bolhW...

The civic virtue we need!

All the experts seem to agree this was a bad idea, poorly planned, poorly executed, going badly

Everyone with a platform should be screaming that Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... gift link

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections. @mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...

Bessent with an interesting idea: “an international coalition”. 🤡

Do yourself a favor and search for “can this be a solution” 🤪

Same for Spanish! 😉

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

Another must-follow account on this here web site 🤪

arXiv to spin out as an independent non-profit. They are seeking a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Who knew Gulf Wars could be so complicated?

Well thought out, as expected #winning

A billion here, a billion there…

Mmmkay...

Bodes well

This is completely untenable. Time to put Iran officially on notice (again)!

Vibe cod... er, I mean agentic engineering at 4am, fun stuff! 😎

Once again recommending @bloomberg.com Business News Live for solid around-the-clock news coverage (maybe finance news is just biased towards little/no BS): www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpJ...

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Gotta love a journo with balls

Embarking on a six-week journey into agentic AI 😎

Instant follow 🤪

So many protests against this war across the country yesterday. ✊ #IranWar

Is this good?

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

In times like these I like to seek comfort in one of the absolute favorite playlists of mine and remind myself that none of this [waves hands wildly at everything] is really necessary, in my very humble opinion open.spotify.com/playlist/6jw...

Oh, my goodness. Find a video of Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' takedown of Kristi Noem about her mismanagement of immigration and FEMA, not to mention her killing of a dog and a goat. Well worth your time.

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These are always some of the best threads, as one tends to learn a lot about people and political goings-on in different places across this big and unusual country that is the United States. 😉

Excited to continue my LatAm adventures: - Nerdearla Chile, April 16–18 in Santiago de Chile: nerdearla.cl - AI Summit Latam 2026, May 7–8 in Bogotá, Colombia: www.aisummit.com.co Looking to explore the ecosystem and make lots of new connections around #AI #opensource #community etc.

Great org, excellent opportunity for the right person! #opensource

Very normal

Shaking hands with his neck

Monstrous.

I mean…

Even if you don't think trans people are worth the fight since they're just 2% of the population, it's vital that you remember that the Republican Party is not merely an anti-trans movement, it is a fascist movement. They'll perfect tactics on a small minority that will one day be used against you.

Nothing quite like getting on a train in Europe before dawn heading to some fun destination 😉 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇹

"We love religion and we love bringing it back," Trump just now, one day after yet another group of faith orgs filed a suit alleging his admin violated their religious freedom. Dozens of religious leaders, orgs and denominations have sued his admin in the past year. religionnews.com/2026/02/23/f...

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Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Kölle, Alaaf! 😎

Embarrassing