Impossible to overstate the importance of this win. Please spread the word. Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+.

The real winner? The United States of America.

The question I ask the crowd that believes US support for Ukraine is a fundamental error: do the demands put on American attention, arms, and budgets by NATO increase, or do they decrease, if the war ends not in Ukrainian victory or stalemate, but Ukrainian defeat?

The release of the Wii is further from us now than the fall of the Soviet Union was from the release of the Wii.

Etienne Balasz has unfortunately, it seems, been largely forgotten in today's scholarship and reading lists.

But this collection of his essays put out in 1964, a year after his untimely death, is enthralling. A rare depth and breadth of insight. A pleasure to read.

These posts from Xiao Wang are illuminating.

Parts of China’s massive new wind/solar buildout in remote provinces like Xinjiang, it seems, rely on new coal plants to provide grid strength for long-distance HVDC transmission to work.

(Big thread incoming) 🧵

There are an increasing number of Americans who:

describe their religion as 'nothing in particular'
partisanship as independent/other
ideology as not sure
and have a low level of educational attainment.

They are just done - with everything.

graphsaboutreligion.com/p/dropping-out…