Eric Weinstein

Inspiring post from Kherson by my good friend @DouglasKMurray. “What has happened in Ukraine is a 20th century war, taking place in the 21st century. At the places of fiercest fighting…there are trenches & dugouts that look like something from WWI.”

“Large domesticable herbivores” alone changed my life.

Well worth reading this 🧵 . Many excellent points. I wonder if Glenn now agrees that manufactured perma-crises of supposed bigotry crises fit under this rubric: Epidemic Racism Epidemic Transphobia Epidemic Islamophia Epidemic Homophobia Epidemic Misogyny Etc. just the same.

I’m going to be talking more this year about how the battlefield of Twitter is destroying science, medicine, journalism and trust. Read this thread in both directions. This could be a sincere GP, paid fake Pharma acct, etc. Only Twitter knows. We *have* to restore collegiality.

I’ve heard you called every name for your principled stands. I vouch for Norm Matloff. Thanks for being a singular solitary hero in the good fight. Also: often the best programming resources on the Internet.

29 Tweets of thoughtful analysis on how our botched response to COVID changed many of our thinking. Pandemic shows what is wrong w/ simplistic libertarianism in defeating an epidemic. And the moronic response showed why simplistic libertarianism may be needed after all. So sad.

Love this! Imagine @bariweiss as the CNN host. Ratings would skyrocket. So why if the market is all powerful will that never happen? CNN isn't trying to be a business *or* the News! Think about that. Playing dumb around Bari Weiss is not a strategy I would recommend. Well done.

If you need a reason to pull out her chair, open the door for her or to pick up a damn check, read this article. A little bit of courtship is the least we can do for the ones who *will* fight off a damn mountain lion if it comes to that. Moms 1, Lions 0.

Rereading this from over a month ago. My thought at the time was something like “I must not be getting this.”

Delighted to see this conversation of my buddy Lex Fridman. Check it out!

I resist most requests for book recommendations. I suggest "Prison Diary" by Jayaprakash Narayan for this moment in our democracy. ["Break Glass in Case of Emergency People" comes from a long forgotten slogan in Hindi: "अंधेरे में एक प्रकाश" as a play on the word "Emergency".]

I’m always asked for book recommendations but am reluctant to give them. “All the Trouble in the World” was an amazing book by @PJORourke. He‘s also a master stylist of distinctly American English. Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today.