The problem with group chats is that you kind of have to have a couple dumb people on the GC in order to incentivize the smart people to contribute (in order to set the dumb people straight). Otherwise the chat tends to go dormant.

Wondering what the big US automakers are up to on the EV front? The country's top EV manufacturers showing their hands as they release big new targets for the coming months.

The timing is significant. For the first time in years, there are potential openings in the country’s...

And American leftists are trying as hard as they can to beat Joe Biden and elect Donald Trump.

Literally all white guys have to do is sue under the Civil Rights Act.

The Chinese economy has gone wobbly. The CPC has a plan to save it. They will save it through science.

In my latest essay I aim to explain this plan... and the ideas behind it.

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This statistic is even more remarkable.

In 2023, Germany exported 786,000 EVs for a total value of €36 billion.

And 1.7 million combustion engine cars for €65 billion.

So the average exported EV is worth almost €10,000 more than the average exported combustion engine car.

EV range has radically improved 🚙

✅ In 2011 Nissan Leaf was only EV available in US with range of 73 miles

✅ Today 50 EV models available in US with avrg. range of 291 miles

✅ Lucid Air Grand Touring’s range is 516 miles

Cc: Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Jesse D. Jenkins David Wallace-Wells Ramez Naam

My column after walking London’s capital ring

Just build more homes on.ft.com/3US6vHX

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Most people don't realize it but marketers use alot of psycographic data when making boundaries between generations and coming of age with smart phones and social media, not 9/11 is the defining event.

Japan doubling its intake of skilled workers to 160,000/year. That's a country a little more than one-third our size. Note the H-1B is still 85,000.

These aren't casual effects (some piece of this is selection).

But it's not hard to see why kids are leaving the humanities and majoring in nursing and computer science.

Industrial policy, folks! It gets us building again.

We need climate scientists to give us a detailed, vivid picture of what a world of 2.7C warming will look like. Right now, the public has no idea what that number even means.

Japan builds.

No spoilers cos I am not finished but Tadanobu Asano's character in Shogun is so good, helped by the fact that he is a fantastic actor. I didn't realise I needed the archetype 'feudal equivalent of an ambitious middle manager' in my life, but turns out I absolutely did.

The dream of the (early) 90s is alive in Portland

This is a pro-war protest:

Hell yes. More of this, please!! If you're a MAGA type guy who thinks America has been ruined by DEI and bankrupted by aid to Ukraine, please move to Russia, where you can still live the 1950s dream! 😍

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