If you’re wondering why China is taking their time picking up the phone.

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Politicians in the US are now regulating (ie censoring) classroom discussion around climate, electoral politics, foreign policy, diversity, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion.

Free speech and critical thinking out the door.

Right out of the authoritarian regime playbook.

Interesting data. Of those emigrating out of Sweden, what’s the percentage foreign born?

A pic of India or China would more accurately support his argument but obv that doesn’t fit his narrative.

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@figma.com Slides is awesome 🙌

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Worse than Hungary or Poland or Turkey. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

The US is making it harder for scientists to build their future there - Europe has a golden opportunity to step up.

How do we move fast to create the right opportunities and attract this talent? What’s missing to make Europe the obvious choice?

I used to be astonished when reading about the level of detail and systematic thought that Germans used to develop plans for subjugating and disempowering groups of people, leading to the Final Solution. I am getting chilling reminders when I read about government actions like this.

Good comparison of Threads vs Bluesky reach.

Great blog post, thanks 👍

X has the network advantage of a bigger audience. I reckon it’ll take a ton of intentional effort by lots of people to reach the same level of engagement here.

Keep up the useful webdev posts - I’d love to learn more from your experiences.