Archive - pourteaux

Quarrelsome Lovers

Washington’s slide into Beijing-style authoritarianism amid a fake US-China conflict

Jul 20 •

June 2024

The popular erosion of American morality

And a yearning for upright moral heroes: in fiction and reality

Jun 9, 2024 •

February 2024

Buying Soft Power

How a U.S. tech company partners with an American adversary to smuggle propaganda into the classroom

Feb 25, 2024 •

January 2024

Flashpoints 2024

The second annual summary of where history will be made around the world

Jan 3, 2024 •

November 2023

The Geopolitical Soft Landing

Prospects for a durable and peaceful co-existence

Nov 18, 2023 •

October 2023

Geopolitical Horseshoe Theory

A convergence of bad ideas at the extremes

Oct 22, 2023 •

July 2023

I'm cute I'm punk rock

The frenzied path out of Dimes Square to Network Spirituality

Jul 16, 2023 •

June 2023

Transcending algorithmic outrage

A practical approach to curating your attention and distilling truth

Jun 22, 2023 •

April 2023

The Interpersonal Tragedy of China Decoupling

The case for enduring friendship between Chinese and Western people

Apr 30, 2023 •

January 2023

Illegitimate bitcoin transactions

The longstanding compromise on transaction sizes, how Taproot and SegWit inadvertantly blew it up, and the nascent NFT protocol emerging in its wake

Jan 25, 2023 •

Where history will be made around the world in 2023

Jan 1, 2023 •

December 2022

The moral imperative of a distributed social layer

How Nostr or Farcaster aim to address the fundamental problem in social, satisfying everyone along the way

Dec 26, 2022 •

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