Dan Wang

@danwwang

The secure transport of light; Breakneck; industrial research at the Hoover History Lab

Ann Arbor/Palo Alto

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Dan Wang
@danwwang
Jan 1
My annual letter: danwang.co/2025-letter/ This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the physical past and the end of history; Germanic obedience; Antichrist; wisecracks; Pascal’s Wager; romantasy; and croissants.
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Dan Wang
@danwwang
Mar 18
The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-th…
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Dan Wang
@danwwang
Feb 28
For the better part of a decade, I've been writing that the US government's restrictions on Chinese tech companies were unstrategic, poorly explained, and based in caprice (foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…). Now it looks like the administration is turning these controls on American firms
Dean W. Ball
@deanwball
Feb 27
Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
@SecWar
Feb 27
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted
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Dan Wang
@danwwang
Jan 24
Knowledge Wins — from the American Library Association (1917)
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Dan Wang
@danwwang
Jan 19
I loved this joint review of Jia Zhangke’s latest feature with Breakneck by @kirenitynow metropolitanreview.org/p/china-on-the…
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