Whoever is behind that account is either american or a moron. Every other tweet brings in more critically stupid takes.<p>1/ It fixates on venture capital, which is widely proven to be about the most awful way of getting progress. Most VC backed enterprises are either failures, useless (woo yet another SaaS to send emails dynamically generated on your SPA website), or bleeding money. A few, extremely rare exceptions aside (read: where you already know the VCs that will give you the money), venture capital is about the worst option for research.<p>2/ Uses the Shangai ranking as gospel when it's a completely worthless and arbitrary ranking, that only rewards you for huge universities that do everything. Europe was dragged in this bullshit, and now instead of having hundreds of very specialized, very efficient universities, we have dozens of massive, inefficient mega universities.<p>3/ Splits the EU into individual countries when it's convenient to make it look bad (share of publications in Nature, where, if added up, the bars would be the same size as China, size of economies as if a country with 70 million inhabitants was expected to match 330m/1b/1.2b), and groups it when it's convenient too ("why can't Europe do X", conveniently forgetting that's it's 28 countries in a trenchcoat).<p>4/ Acknoledges that most top AI experts and researchers come from Europe, as a testament to the quality of the universities, only uses it to say hurr durr they work in the US.<p>5/ Actually, mostly only acknowledges AI as a scientific research subject, ignoring and insulting thousands of researchers.<p>6/ "Only one of the top 10 tech companies in the world is in Europe", conveniently forgetting that said company is the absolute foundation of every other tech company. Take ASML out, and the tech world doesn't exist.<p>7/ GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH. ONLY GROWTH MATTERS. Ignore the costs, both social and environmental.<p>8/ Cherry picks the international math olympiads to broadly say that everyone wants to go to the US. I guess high schoolers are "everyone" now. They're also obviously the best and most well informed people as to the life conditions in the US. I too did want to leave to the US when I was 18. Then I realized it's mostly a shithole I would rather avoid.<p>Yes, Europe is slow, conservative, risk averse. But my fucking god if that thread isn't a load of bullshit, followed by a few tweets of "but it's not only bad huh hehe healthcare".