What a way to end a book Catton's Grant Takes Command

well then...

so much respect to coleman wong

how cool is it you can just do this now

Is there anyone from Japan who has spent any time thinking about american mass transit? I'd love to interview that person

Joseph Nye in 1996 saw the power of what Biden did in flagging Russia's invasion of Ukraine before it happened

Trump is keeping the coal industry alive in America so we can preserve a strategic supply of sappers to undermine trenches in WWIII

at least folks in AI startups in America are getting more than adequately compensated for their 996 labor

dark

@wellerstein.bsky.social question! a little confused by this line of yours. If Okinawa was 50k American casualities, why wouldn't Kyushu and Honshu be just as many if not more?

when is trump gunna smash something

What should I ask @NateSilver538 about on ChinaTalk next week?

o3 vs sonnet "make me an infographic" eval

what a cover

the goat

who's gunna put me on a board first

people forget how insecure the CCP is

the next time someone tells you you could never know what's what because you're just writing on the internet...

remarkable that we've had three years of a high intensity conflict in Ukraine but the new Battlefield is taking zero cues from it www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW0...

this book is so fun

Don't talk about war until you've read Murray and Millett on military effectiveness

no it isn't

please don’t talk about America, AI and energy until you’ve read this

who wants to review this for chinatalk?

Big Eric Adams energy with Jimmy Walker

just pathetic they were surprised by getting hit on rare earths

if you're not podcasting from a truck, you're not podcasting

no vibe can compare to 1980s tokyo college life

well played by the deep state getting this book banned on audible...

ok cool Jensen, now try ChinaTalk on for size

When Stalin really wanted someone to keep it real with them, like with Zhukov before the battle of Moscow, he says "tell me truthfully, as a Communist"

late 70s japanese jazz covers are undefeated

what retvrn actually looks like...advertising "social supremacy" in your housing development

ok guess we're cool then

fashion icon

modern masterpiece www.interviewmagazine.com/food/thisbo...

individual sports are brutal...much easier to derive meaning from something meaningless like moving a ball around if you're doing it with a squad

even PC Gamer thinks selling H20s to China is bs...

amazing

ugh

Really proud of this epic interview with @JosephTorigian on Xi's Father www.chinatalk.media/p/the-party...

rough

TIL gyoza came from manchukuo

chinatalk's russia market penetration really leaves something to be desired

bringing out the Commodore Perry 'Black Ships' flags at the WWII surrender ceremony a as based as it gets

and if you think Comey had a pre-election dilemma, pour one out for King and Nimitz

MacArthur eats the steak in Tokyo

truman cringe god

clown show

Wang Yi, what a guy