Silverman on Security
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🚗⚡ New in @science.org: My piece on why the U.S. needs to rethink its approach to China's electric vehicle industry (and what's at stake if it doesn’t).
The competitive gap is bigger than you think. Thread 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The competitive gap is bigger than you think. Thread 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How collaboration with China can revitalize US automotive innovation
Strategic collaboration, not protectionist barriers, should be pursued
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Daily bunny no.3147 got everyone a slice
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Daily bunny no.3147 got everyone a slice
There's a 147% tariff on this post.
Gyoda Mamekichi, a sentient green soybean, is the mascot for Gyoda City.
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There's a 147% tariff on this post.
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Gyoda Mamekichi, a sentient green soybean, is the mascot for Gyoda City.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Gyoda Mamekichi, a sentient green soybean, is the mascot for Gyoda City.
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There’s the canceled people database, plus the National Association of Scholars lists about 200 cancellations over the last 20 years, and FIRE’s list of “disinvitation attempts” (note attempts, not successes) is about 500 this century.
I went through the numbers a few years ago here (incl links).
I went through the numbers a few years ago here (incl links).
No, America is Not Experiencing a Version of China's Cultural Revolution
A bad analogy that reveals something important about the social justice/anti-woke debate
www.arcdigital.media
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
There’s the canceled people database, plus the National Association of Scholars lists about 200 cancellations over the last 20 years, and FIRE’s list of “disinvitation attempts” (note attempts, not successes) is about 500 this century.
I went through the numbers a few years ago here (incl links).
I went through the numbers a few years ago here (incl links).
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i was literally just looking for that to make this point. More people have been "cancelled" for charlie kirk blasphemy than the during the entire cancel culture panic.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
i was literally just looking for that to make this point. More people have been "cancelled" for charlie kirk blasphemy than the during the entire cancel culture panic.
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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to whom it may concern in the national media: it is perhaps worth further investigation that the answer to “who is in charge of foreign policy” appears to be whoever is currently answering the phone
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
to whom it may concern in the national media: it is perhaps worth further investigation that the answer to “who is in charge of foreign policy” appears to be whoever is currently answering the phone
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
Lil Marco is trying to cover his Lil Marco so he doesn't get Loomered.
State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Lil Marco is trying to cover his Lil Marco so he doesn't get Loomered.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
Border agents are set to target communities in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana in a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep.”
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Federal agents aim to arrest 5,000 people during the operation.
buff.ly/ISpXE0l
Border Agents Target Mississippi Communities in ‘Swamp Sweep’
Border agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called "Swamp Sweep,” targeting immigrants in southeast Mississippi and Louisiana.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.
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Countries with DEI and abortion are human rights violators, says country where armed and masked government forces are invading neighborhoods.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Countries with DEI and abortion are human rights violators, says country where armed and masked government forces are invading neighborhoods.
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The current mess in DC only signals to Beijing that the US lacks unity, organization, and strategic vision to handle an even larger conflict, as the Pacific region is likely to become. Bombing Iran after Israel's SEAD or running masculine army ads doesn’t compensate for it
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The current mess in DC only signals to Beijing that the US lacks unity, organization, and strategic vision to handle an even larger conflict, as the Pacific region is likely to become. Bombing Iran after Israel's SEAD or running masculine army ads doesn’t compensate for it
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It's a X-sphere thing on what defines a "man."
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It's a X-sphere thing on what defines a "man."
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War for Ukraine Day 1,367 update has posted.
Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 1,367: Holodomor Remembrance Day
(Image by NEIVANMADE) The cost On November 19 russian missile strike on a residential building in Ternopil killed Marichka Palahniuk, pharmacist, her 1.5‑year‑old son, Nazar, and her 5‑year‑old daught...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
War for Ukraine Day 1,367 update has posted.
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Couple generations later and here we are again surviving the kremlin trying to kill us.
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Couple generations later and here we are again surviving the kremlin trying to kill us.
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On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
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***correct wording should be "the russian aggression against Ukraine", not "the war between", but this post by the GOP Congressman needs to be shared here.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
***correct wording should be "the russian aggression against Ukraine", not "the war between", but this post by the GOP Congressman needs to be shared here.
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A million times spot on.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A million times spot on.
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An evergreen request: please, consider donating and sharing. While Trump threatens to cut military supplies paid by Europeans, the Ukrainian Armed Forces need your help more than ever.
If you feel the same anger we do, channel it into action.
Donate, share, support fundraisers for anti-Shahed interceptors and FPV drones. Save our lives.
www.sternenkofund.org/en
Donate, share, support fundraisers for anti-Shahed interceptors and FPV drones. Save our lives.
www.sternenkofund.org/en
Sternenko Community Foundation
The Sternenko Community Foundation was established to continuously provide the Ukrainian Defence Forces with drones, primarily FPV, as well as to promote the development of UAV technologies.
www.sternenkofund.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
An evergreen request: please, consider donating and sharing. While Trump threatens to cut military supplies paid by Europeans, the Ukrainian Armed Forces need your help more than ever.
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And yet we are told to entrust our lives to this. To surrender to murderers. To invaders. To war criminals.
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And yet we are told to entrust our lives to this. To surrender to murderers. To invaders. To war criminals.