Ramez Naam
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Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.
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Joined May 2007
Despite this election, I remain an optimist about America and the world. Humanity will continue to produce new ideas and new innovations to improve our lives. Good people will continue to come together to improve the world. And the political tide will turn. We'll make it so.
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We noticed a worrisome quirk in Zipline’s data. We’ve been setting all-time highs week after week: delivering record amounts of animal health, blood, medicines, and vaccines....Except one critical use case that’s been shrinking. 1/n
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The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes
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One of Hegseth’s first acts as SECDEF was to fire the senior leadership of the JAG corps in the military. Now you know why.
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Lost in the convo on strikes on Venezuelan boats: Drug interdiction doesn't work. We've spent ~$1 Trillion trying to interdict supply, with 0 positive effects. This is especially true for fentanyl. A 1kg brick is >1 million doses. A solution, if it exists, is on the demand side.
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In the later parts of the Nexus trilogy (set around 2040), I portrayed the future as a 3-way rivalry between US, China, and India for just this reason. And India will be the only rich country still experiencing real population growth.
At 8% growth, India will be a World Bank high-income country around 2040 -- just 15 years from now. If India grows 5.5% faster than the U.S., it'll reach half of America's per capita GDP by mid-century. India is developing faster than people realize.
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At 8% growth, India will be a World Bank high-income country around 2040 -- just 15 years from now. If India grows 5.5% faster than the U.S., it'll reach half of America's per capita GDP by mid-century. India is developing faster than people realize.
At 8% growth, it'll take India 12 years to get to where China is today. India's big reforms came 12 years after China's. India is not as far behind as people think.
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The reason Democrats warned about illegal orders is that Trump and Hegseth love giving illegal orders
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For the president and his minions, loyalty is more important than legality.
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The far left and far right share the false belief that the world has been getting worse rather than better
They had to invent a new word to describe the particular way in which everything has gotten worse, is what happened
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Hegseth telegraphed his intent to issue illegal orders the day he fired the JAGs.
Former US military lawyers speak out "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both" Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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The past was pretty awful.
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Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of GW Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC): "I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported." "There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
A Dishonorable Strike: Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder. https://t.co/t2ItMyS65g
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Chesa Boudin: won’t prosecute Honduran dealers wrecking SF Trump: hold my beer
BREAKING: Trump to pardon former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez. He was literally convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking — 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. How does this make any sense?
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A Dishonorable Strike: Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder. https://t.co/t2ItMyS65g
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Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is almost certainly
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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Worth reading. DODs operational manual, the Hague treaties, and 150 years of US law make killing people clinging to a shipwreck - even soldiers - a crime. And a grave one.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith: “In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
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I came to this country with my parents on a green card. We sold everything. We never received welfare or special treatment. I went to college, earned a PhD, and worked my way to the White House. This is the real immigrant story. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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2016 Rubio would look at 2025 Rubio with contempt.
Marco Rubio (2016): “For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.”
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My dad and other survivors of the USS VINCENNES sinking off Savo Island in August, 1942, were machine gunned by the enemy. It was a war crime then. What are we doing now?
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The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the...
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No denial here that a second strike deliberately killed survivors on Sept 2, as we and the Post reported today.
cnn.com
The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the...
As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland. As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically
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Legalize elevators.
The way I would put it is that the technology of the elevator has lowered the cost of providing square footage by allowing the vertical stacking of dwellings on scarce, in-demand parcels of land but this stacking technology is illegal to use on most parcels.
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