James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
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founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech. 🗣️ I have strong opinions; you will not agree with all of them. That’s a good thing. 📚 I share what I learn.
Toronto / New York City
Joined November 2014
(trying but nonetheless doing a very bad job of).
stepping back from this place. take care, y'all.
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the US only investigated because they tortured an American to death — and even that didn’t lead to consequences
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We’ll see if they’re held more accountable than the IDF.
An American citizen, Amado Sison, was reportedly shot by Israeli military today while dispersing from a weekly demonstration against an illegal settlement in Beita, West Bank. The IDF also blocked his ambulance from transporting him to a hospital, per press release provided.
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Israeli settlers have now killed an American man.
This should be a major story. But when everything is outrageous, nothing is outrageous
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apparently this is what gets you a rabois block.
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treating the symptom (consolidation) and not the cause (monopoly power) has created a window for increasingly aggressive tactics by already-existing now that cheap money has dried up — copy and kill; take the talent and IP, leave a zombie company.
@balajis Incorrect. Talked to a senior employee at windsurf and current employees are getting no pay out and are left with shell of a company to “run”. All the cash is going to founders and preferred equity holders. It’s terrible for the industry.
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For people who talk about responsibility to shareholders like it’s God’s Sole Commandment, you’d think “don’t attack your LPs” would be more deeply engrained.
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One of the weirder things about tech right VCs’ broadsides against universities, unions, and Arab states is that the three together make up the vast majority of their income base (endowments, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds). Those chickens are bound to come home to roost.
Any decent reactionary billionaire must destroy the universities and government sponsored research initiatives that fueled their prosperity .
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Instead, we get a country with 3,900,000 high school graduates a year fighting over 22,000 slots at elite universities, with the most mediocre believing they are entitled to a place at those schools, and imagining they have been cheated if they don’t get in.
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If the interest were in access to quality education, state schools could be expanded. If it was in dismantling the old elite circles, they could specifically cultivate, fund, and back classes of founders from outside the Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. Build broader centres of power.
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Routine reminder whenever these things pop up that the “top university” arguments have nothing to do with access to quality education, and everything to do with racism, insecurity, and a deep sense of entitlement to prestige and a guaranteed place in American elite circles.
Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you're going to get them into a top university in this country, you're fooling yourself. What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and
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Whenever I hear someone surfing TikTok, I can’t help but think they bottled the joy people feel mindlessly flipping TV channels.
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Also see:.
This article is pure liberal revisionism. 1) relies on ex-Biden official sources reinforcing myth of Helpless Biden desperately seeking a ceasefire without addressing the fact that, according to Israeli officials, he NEVER demanded one. this key dynamic is hand-waved away 🧵.
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This support included greenlighting and backing an expansion of the war into Lebanon, the US’ new regional intelligence hub, as well as tacit (and likely material) support for the pager attacks — which was planned and executed on, placing bombs across Lebanon, long before Oct 7.
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The fuel of American exceptionalism has always been the spoils of expansion.
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Of course, no country within America’s hemisphere of influence is allowed to do its own thing even in times when the country declares itself isolated. The rank-and-file’s occasional desire to be left alone is in constant conflict with the logic of the imperial machine.
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American history is a strange thing — Americans love expansion, but also have a low threshold for pain. The country of the Monroe Doctrine was fine seizing the Wild West, Philippines, and Caribbean, but retreated to insularity on the latter two as costs mounted.
There are a lot of things going on in the world, Americans famously mostly want to just be left alone and not enmeshed in foreign conflicts. This even goes back to the advice of George Washington. The issue is that very well-funded and organized political activists have made the.
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pseudoacquisitions and lobotomy hiring are the newest front in antitrust, and they are easily one of the most aggressive strategies we’ve seen in a long time. ZIRP pacified the empire-builders; now that it’s over, it’s war.
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This opportunism was facilitated in no small part by US backing and desire to “remake the region”. In addition to “material support” (money, arms, diplomatic cover), there was also direct military engagement of US and British forces in reconnaissance, logistics, and planning.
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Many Israelis wholly expected to be forced to stop by the Americans at a 20:1 kill ratio as was customary. But as Biden and Blinken, both longtime extremists on all things Israel, egged them on, they began to see an unprecedented opportunity to wipe out the Palestinians.
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In truth, in October 2023, the IDF brass and Israeli political establishment played hot potato as to who would face consequences for the Oct 7 failure. Public anger was redirected at the Palestinians, which quickly escalated to genocide — with full American backing.
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