Matthew Yglesias ✓

Free idea for politicians looking for some populist chum: There’s an unexploited angle around diesel prices and the use of diesel backup generators for AI data centers. 10.5K views · 73 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Spotlight sequel?? 27.7K views · 268 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

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This was a year ago, but Sundar Pinchai said he thought the underlying technical risk for AI is high but he "had a lot of faith" that humanity would mobilize to avert the risk. I'm curious how he thinks the past 12 months have gone. https://t.co/xQ6b3OSWOw https://t.co/Y2cstsf

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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Trump is "not really dug in" against guardrails for AI, despite the president's defiance https://t.co/8jauU0sLGF 37.8K views · 102 likes · 20 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Defending American democracy by getting Trump to do this insanely unpopular war 👇 17.2K views · 83 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Few can claim the impact of my good friend @mdubowitz and @FDD under his and @CliffordDMay’s astute leadership for over 2 decades! Congratulations! 20.2K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Offsetting the damage done to the world economy by Trump’s Iran war with a diesel export ban that introduces new distortions is going to end up backfiring. 7.9K views · 98 likes · 3 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

I’m glad @JeffMightBWrong finally asked the question on everyone’s mind https://t.co/HtRPZW4PmX 13.1K views · 68 likes · 5 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Jihad 1 was crazy 88.4K views · 1.9K likes · 115 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

lmao “fully unleash E15 and biodiesel.” 19.9K views · 230 likes · 10 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Amazing take. Incredible country. 111.7K views · 848 likes · 35 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa: I don’t believe that it’s an appropriate time to discuss things that happened 25 years ago. I was at a different age, and the conditions in the region were different. https://t.co/oa3Zq1km0Q

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‘If we haven't controlled our terrorists, they would be roaming on the streets of New York or London" - Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif at UNGA https://t.co/2bHJaAKEaG

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If you want to help Cait Conley beat Mike Lawler, she’s very cool. https://t.co/nqDrikkztP 42.5K views · 245 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

I can’t believe that amidst all this talk about affordability there’s a huge bipartisan majority in Congress to make cars slightly more expensive with zero upside. https://t.co/0clVZvFBB0 34.8K views · 431 likes · 40 reposts · 41 replies Open on X →

This is what I warned about over the weekend, the NRDC is fighting to preserve the opportunity to do pretextual anti-pipeline lawsuits rather than than get to yes on a deal that will make it easier to build clean energy. https://t.co/YawscwfeTh

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Me to Jared Golden today https://t.co/Zj5rgPlzmd

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The case on the merits was weak here (that’s why the deal was already approved in the EU) and Bonta did a good job here of securing some concessions rather than “fighting” for the sake of fighting. https://t.co/Br7mFA2Lcz 30.3K views · 133 likes · 10 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →

Obama 18.6K views · 63 likes · 0 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

I love that this was clearly made with Claude 19.9K views · 111 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

I sent my kid to our local majority black public elementary school for eight years and now he’s at our in-boundary middle school but for once I’m going to be disciplined and actually write the article *before* I start tweeting about the controversy du jour. 45.1K views · 469 likes · 8 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Public grant records show funding for METR, Redwood, FAR AI, Longview, Tarbell, and projects at RAND. They study the threat. They run the evaluations. They train journalists to cover the threat. Different logos. Same ecosystem. https://t.co/pU3rcWRw5x

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Messaging Trump’s Green New Deal https://t.co/CPWzq91hjX

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English Premiere League does a better job than any American sport of putting games on at a convenient time for east coast children to watch. 31K views · 437 likes · 7 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

You won’t hear the free speech hypocrites at FIRE talking about what Trump is doing here 635 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

When the White House opens its doors to the press, it must comply with the First Amendment. The president is as free as any other person to criticize media coverage. But he can’t ban outlets from the White House just because he doesn’t like their reporting or commentary. Press ht

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Changing my mind and I now favor human loss of control 24.2K views · 318 likes · 8 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

The public hates Trump's performance on AI, but there's also a large bloc of people who don't yet realize how much he's embraced accelerationism so he'll probably get less popular if people learn more. 18.9K views · 120 likes · 16 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →