Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. I'm still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you're so inclined.

I Have Heard The Bots Singing, Each To Each

If you look at some of the key ills plaguing America over the last ten years, Facebook has certainly had a hand in perpetuating some of them. Wokeness, censorship, echo chambers, commodification of user information and spam are just some … Continue reading →

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Poland Won’t Import Your Troubles (But Will Import American Weapons)

“Your troubles” in this case include wokeness, illegal aliens, Islamic radicalism, EU overeach, Russian troops or gun control. First up: An interview with Polish MP Dominik Tarczynski: I haven’t remotely watched all of this yet, but just the first two … Continue reading →

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Invasion USA: El Paso Edition

There’s a word when organized groups of armed men attempt to forcibly enter your country, and that word is “invasion.” Well, Invasion USA— —happened at El Paso this week. Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at … Continue reading →

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Marvel Rivals Censors On Behalf Of Communist China

Video game YouTuber Asmongold documents some interesting behavior in the new video game Marvel Rivals: It censors your text messages if you try to say anything critical of Communist China. Marvel Rivals is a “third person hero shooter” that’s just … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Carter And The Weirdness Of The 1970s

The past is another country, and it’s hard to understand Jimmy Carter (who died yesterday at age 100) without understanding the very weird decade that thrust him into prominence. The cultural milieu of the 1970s usually gets squeezed down to … Continue reading →

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Chinese Gambling Interests And The Texas House Speaker’s Race

I’ve not been covering every twist and turn of the Texas House Speaker’s race because it’s obvious there’s a lot of Liar’s Poker going on. The current state of play is the Rep. David Cook is the Republican choice to … Continue reading →

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China’s Population Only 600 to 800 million?

We’ve previously covered that China’s demographics are in severe decline and that China’s GDP may be overstated by 60%. Now a researcher says that China’s population could be overstated by 37-50%. (Before we dig in, two caveats: First, the channel … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For December 27, 2024

Congratulations on making it to the end of a difficult but exhilarating 2024, and I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Christmas week is always slow, so this will be a smaller LinkSwarm than usual, and thank goodness for that. … Continue reading →

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ASML Exits, China Screwed

I’ve previously talked about China’s difficulties in catching up to the west in semiconductor manufacturing here, here, and here, among other places. To summarize: Western nations have an advanced, highly interconnected semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem that China doesn’t have the technical … Continue reading →

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