Writings

Paul Graham re: AI "So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots." Ditto for reads and read-nots…

In 2007, a bunch of lads in a motorcade got through APEC security by slapping a Canadian flag on the car and having dudes in suits & sunglasses jogging alongside. Then a lad dressed as Osama Bin Laden gets out and walks 10m from the hotel where Bush is staying.

That attitude defined Hồ Chí Minh’s last years. He was already in his late 70s. His comrades asked after his health. ‘Bring down more US aircraft,’ he said, ‘and I’ll be in the best of health.’

“Have you ever seen a person who is afraid that the war will end? I saw him, and his name is Vladimir Zelensky,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told the host in an interview with Radio Slovensko.

"The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it's barely noticeable and barely matters because there's a permanent unelected machine that runs the government." — Glenn Greenwald on X/Twitter