Daryl Bockett
@tackatdawn.bsky.social
There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to take over the world: megalomaniacs and IR professors. I'm the kind that pays worse...who am I?
I’m pretty sure that Mark Zuckerberg cares more about his company than his own children, but for damn sure he cares more about his company than YOUR children, so expect Facebook to use every dirty trick in the book to resist any and all regulations, anywhere in the world.
January 27, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I’m pretty sure that Mark Zuckerberg cares more about his company than his own children, but for damn sure he cares more about his company than YOUR children, so expect Facebook to use every dirty trick in the book to resist any and all regulations, anywhere in the world.
...were very low cost and low risk to Trump personally. The lesson is that the world needs to push back against him where possible...make it costly to make bad policies, and some of his policies will improve.
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
...were very low cost and low risk to Trump personally. The lesson is that the world needs to push back against him where possible...make it costly to make bad policies, and some of his policies will improve.
(Although if I had to guess, the side preaching a false gospel of sexual repression probably contains a higher proportion of pedophiles, just like it's always the faux-religious moral crusaders who are most likely to have sexual skeletons in their closets, because of course it is!!)
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
(Although if I had to guess, the side preaching a false gospel of sexual repression probably contains a higher proportion of pedophiles, just like it's always the faux-religious moral crusaders who are most likely to have sexual skeletons in their closets, because of course it is!!)
...to turn out to be a rapist, and someone on the other team is going to turn out to be innocent of anything except using Epstein for his political power. Let's not pretend that one side of the aisle is all saints and the other side is all demons...
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
...to turn out to be a rapist, and someone on the other team is going to turn out to be innocent of anything except using Epstein for his political power. Let's not pretend that one side of the aisle is all saints and the other side is all demons...
...What we have to keep in mind is that, if the truth ever does come out, a lot of people with 'connections' to Epstein will just turn out to be interested in his money and contacts, not sharing in his perversions. Moreover, whether you are on the left of the right someone on 'your team' is going...
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
...What we have to keep in mind is that, if the truth ever does come out, a lot of people with 'connections' to Epstein will just turn out to be interested in his money and contacts, not sharing in his perversions. Moreover, whether you are on the left of the right someone on 'your team' is going...
...credible evidence that he was a pedophile, and I'd happily watch him him being drawn and quartered if he merely turned a blind eye to it, let alone participated.
However, the GOP try to distract from Trump's ties to Epstein by painting as many Democrats with the same brush as they can...
However, the GOP try to distract from Trump's ties to Epstein by painting as many Democrats with the same brush as they can...
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 AM
...credible evidence that he was a pedophile, and I'd happily watch him him being drawn and quartered if he merely turned a blind eye to it, let alone participated.
However, the GOP try to distract from Trump's ties to Epstein by painting as many Democrats with the same brush as they can...
However, the GOP try to distract from Trump's ties to Epstein by painting as many Democrats with the same brush as they can...
...the 1990s, and then Trump comes along and makes it look like the US really has been rying to contain China all along. Once again, an idiot who doesn't understand how the world works should not be in charge of everything.
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM
...the 1990s, and then Trump comes along and makes it look like the US really has been rying to contain China all along. Once again, an idiot who doesn't understand how the world works should not be in charge of everything.
...sanctions policy.
What is certain is that this drives the two countries further apart...US sanctions on China should always be conditional on getting the PRC to play by the rules of the LIO: congagement rather than containment. The PRC has been misreading US China policy as containment since...
What is certain is that this drives the two countries further apart...US sanctions on China should always be conditional on getting the PRC to play by the rules of the LIO: congagement rather than containment. The PRC has been misreading US China policy as containment since...
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM
...sanctions policy.
What is certain is that this drives the two countries further apart...US sanctions on China should always be conditional on getting the PRC to play by the rules of the LIO: congagement rather than containment. The PRC has been misreading US China policy as containment since...
What is certain is that this drives the two countries further apart...US sanctions on China should always be conditional on getting the PRC to play by the rules of the LIO: congagement rather than containment. The PRC has been misreading US China policy as containment since...
...highest short-term cost, highest risk, but also highest upside potential. Funnily, it comes as Western analysts are criticizing Trump for making the sanctions too porous and inconsistent. Betting on Chinese innovation is fair, but if I was Xi I would rather bet on Taco Trump screwing up the...
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM
...highest short-term cost, highest risk, but also highest upside potential. Funnily, it comes as Western analysts are criticizing Trump for making the sanctions too porous and inconsistent. Betting on Chinese innovation is fair, but if I was Xi I would rather bet on Taco Trump screwing up the...
...left them on a par with, or even ahead of, 'Western' technology? I've heard people confidently asserting that any of those 3 paths was certain, but I don't think it is knowable. However, this suggests that the PRC is betting the house on option 3. I'm not an expert but that seems to have the...
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM
...left them on a par with, or even ahead of, 'Western' technology? I've heard people confidently asserting that any of those 3 paths was certain, but I don't think it is knowable. However, this suggests that the PRC is betting the house on option 3. I'm not an expert but that seems to have the...