“After an initial denial, the patient’s appeal for the scan was ultimately approved six months later. By that the time, the patient had died.”

did China choose a domestic political party it disliked, in order to blame it specifically for the pressure it imposed? China is often thin-skinned and overbearing in international affairs, not trying to make any defense of its behavior whatsoever. but playing favorites in domestic politics is icky.

I mean, that's the sense u get? But I don't know? Showboating cld happen from the other side too, you cld imagine some ordinary clearance procedure + then Columbia's President rescinding it, turning the plans back. But absent evidence, I'd place my bets on sloppiness by a suddenly improvisational US

You'd think before sending repatriation flights, someone would make a phone call? It wouldn't be, like, "Hi! We're here! Can we come in?"

the best minds of our generation are now sleeping under their desks working to invent vegan fake eggs!

abundance is awesome and i support it, but presuming abundance will overwhelm distributional concerns is a bet we’ve already taken that works out poorly, both from an abundance and distributional perspective. i am radically for the equitable abundance agenda!

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The American consumer looks forward to valuable innovations.

#relatable

potentially dangerous criminal aliens are mostly very nice people.

only plutocrats can do hard things? it’s just not that expensive.

the US military is an example of an effective, high quality labor pool reinforced by a well organized benefits state. sets a dangerous example.

does deep seek low training cost presage the possibility of models built and trained by nonprofits with broad public support, with no plutocrat or aspiring plutocrat anywhere in the pipeline?

$100M is my number, and that seems too much. But yeah.

Indeed. The very worst.

i’m not sure to do with the metaphor, but the idea is surprisingly appealing…

i think i read something you wrote that accidentally said Alito and you very quickly fixed it?

in prospect revenge is more appealing than remedy. but it’s like a bag of cheetos — you’ll find you wish you’d gone for the salad after you’ve binged.

“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV. Today I will be performing your heart surgery.”