Rearview: 2024

Yeah and I haven't done my taxes yet. Have you?

Biggest Stuff

• Biden Checks out / Harris is Shoed In

• Trump gets Shot and wins.

• The New Capitalists (Musk, Andreesen, Hadrian, Palantir, Anduril )

• Starship Booster catch.

• Woke is naked. I wrote notes on Woke Racism in 2022. I’m about sick of it.

• Bitcoin went to the moon.

Andrew Sullivan Says
The Atlantic also enforces DEI ruthlessly in its hiring processes. This year, it boasted that “roughly 46 percent of 35 new hires identified as people of color and 71 percent identified as women”? Is Chait predicting that The Atlantic will stop their systemic race and sex discrimination now that Trump is elected? Please. DEI is their religion.

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Best YouTubers

• Sabine Hossenfelder

• WATOP

• What is Going on With Shipping?

• Asianometry

• Fireship

Honorable Mentions

• Chris Williamson, Munro Live, Data Skeptic, Teddy Baldassare, ONSCENE TV

Fell Off

• Peter Zeihan, Hak5

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Best TV Shows

• Slow Horses

• Lioness (Taylor Sheridan - Zoe Saldana)

• The Diplomat

• Sugar

Honorable Mentions

• Silo, Resident Alien, Kaos, The Gentlemen

Best Film

• Dune 2

• Scavenger’s Reign

• Conclave

Honorable Mentions

• American Fiction, Blitz

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Best Books

• Precipice (Charles Cumming)

• Trinity Six (Robert Harris)

• Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Ruth Benedict)

• Echo of Worlds (MR Cary)

• Service Model (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

Honorable Mentions

Tom Holland (Christendom), Stephen Fry (Greek Myths). Gregory Aldrete (Military Blunders). William Eggington (Borges, Heisenberg & Kant)

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Big Ideas & Wisdom

• Niall Ferguson

• Charles Murray

• Courage Media

• Natan Sharansky

Honorable Mentions

• Jonathan Rauch,

Sports

• F1 Vegas. Hamilton -> Ferarri

• Vikings, Eagles, SF Crumbles, Lions, Chiefs( Sneaking by)

• Tyson vs Paul

• Jon Jones., Alex Pereira, Max Holloway vs Justin Gaethje.

• Duplantis WR Pole Vault

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Predictions for 2025

1. Nobody will care about new Apple Phones, but new Mac mini & big honking PCs

2. Three words. A. Q. Khan. There will be an AQKhan for AI. AI will go rogue, and it will be as big as a big breach.

3. More war in mid-east, Africa. We won’t care.

4. Something in Europe will Break.

5. People will start to think about July 4, 2026