KMT leader is visiting in the next week or two. At least partially relating to giving her a bit of cover to go to China and not be seen as "hanging with the enemy." People have a short attention span and a period of "peace" will emphasize her policy.

This is much better than trannies at the White House during the Biden era.

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others. You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all. Enough! If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists. If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized. For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent. It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

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Absolutely correct. Xi will get loyal, aggressive, probably high T folks who want to win. He may have removed the folks who did well in the old system. I expect China to make moves and - like Stalin in 1937/1938 - purges can be followed by actual action not too long afterwards.

We are entering the age of just-in-time software. Some of my coworkers are visiting San Francisco this week, so I asked Claude Fable to design an extremely detailed HTML map of San Francisco so I can explain the city to them. The HTML is wild. It has all the street names, their exact dimensions, the relief of the city, the fog, the sun exposure etc. Everything it real. I was super surprised but it went and found the city's actual data, then built a cartographic engine around it. So I have: - Every street from the SF Public Works centerline survey: 15,905 segments, 2,502 named streets, 54,989 surveyed vertices, with the official address ranges per block - The relief from 14,151 municipal elevation contour points, interpolated into a 168,000-vertex terrain model - 9,672 buildings with lidar-measured heights from an SF Planning study - Every Muni Metro line, the cable cars and BART from the official GTFS feed: real route shapes, real 10-minute headways, real speeds. 76 little trams move on the map at their scheduled pace, and the K dims when it passes under 175 meters of Twin Peaks because it knows the tunnel portals (wtf!) - Fog modeled as marine-layer advection over the terrain, calibrated on NREL satellite irradiance and a decade of ASOS weather observations. Claude did totally overkilled stuff like the fog model's 50% line landed at longitude -122.437 which is... Divisadero Street (every San Franciscan knows the fog stops there) The whole thing is one self-contained HTML file, 1.2 MB, with a WebGL engine. No libraries, no API calls, no network. It runs offline forever. We talk about scaling and benchmarks all day. Sometimes the bitter lesson is simpler: give the machine real data and real verification loops, and it builds you the city. I'm spending the evening exploring the map; it's too good!

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

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Here is a China story with giant global implications. Car sales in the world's largest market have been dropping for 8 straight months. In May they plunged 22% YoY. That's a 400,000 car tank in a single month. Chinese automakers have reacted by doubling down on exports to markets worldwide. Gotta keep the factories running. 2022: 3.1M 2023: 4.9M 2024: 5.8M 2025: 8.3M 2026: 12M (f) Chinese cars are coming to your neighborhood, ravaging legacy automakers in Australia, the UK, Spain, Mexico and Brazil. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…

That is not true. After sending three kids to Yale, I guarantee you, you do not want anyone you care about in the IL environment. It is not a gatekeeper and the best influences on those campuses. It is living on a legacy that it does not presently earn. Our last one transferred out. Our second would have transferred out but it was too late. The kids are a mess, the schools are a mess, and the education is really really not good.

We should offer $100m, with the alternative being just taking it for $0.

Happy 9th anniversary, @anduriltech. It’s been a wild ride!

Speaking of major development in the naval balance, I'm concerned that US defense analysts have not grappled with the meaning of these developments announced last Sept in China's military parade. Jianzai Wuqi, 5.2026. Yes, here you see four new variants of Chinese naval hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. Folks, please forgive my poor scan here, but this is very significant. I am underlining, once again, the YJ-19 that is a submarine-fired hypersonic weapon. Remember, USN does not yet even deploy supersonic ASCM from submarines, let alone hypersonic. US has bad habit of underestimating opponents. Let's apply realism and restraint in approaching complex problems like Taiwan -- leading with diplomacy. In doing so, we realize that the "value of the object" of Taiwan for the US turns out to be minimal and not worth running major (nuclear) risks.

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RT @IterIntellectus: The Only Real Existential Risk: the female problem x.com/i/status/2059803760260… I saw this video the other day and I can’t…

Or how about you just interact with your kid. 😢

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That’s why the Frog (Texans) refused to carry you across the Water again. We’re tired of being stabbed in the back by Career Politicians, while you sale us out to Foreigners. You were MIA while we were invaded by Foreigners that refuse to assimilate, and Businesses that laid us off for them.