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Absolutely reeks of Claude. This is the new aesthetic.

What an thoroughly ugly website, on basically every level.

Because China has an obvious strategic interest in exploiting its dominance of a critical supply chain. The controls were introduced under its dual-use export regime, giving China …

A fantastic article. Ruby Tandoh's writing on food is always of high quality and gets an immediate bookmark from me.

Tungsten prices are already quite easily explained by China restricting exports and reducing production, existing wars consuming munitions, and Western governments rebuilding stock…

The referenced short story - The Crisis - that the article mentions can be read here: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/the-crisis Odd and unsettling, like most of Harrison…

Why did a billionaire propose biasing the voting system towards the rich? Gee I wonder.

"I think you just need to accept the results of the competition. The winning submissions clearly provide value and had a lot of effort invested in them. I'm not really worried abou…

That was a really, really bad book. By that time it feels like he was a shadow of his former page-turning self.

You seem to be projecting onto me far more than my words literally state. I neither stated nor insinuated anything of the sort.

I wasn't aware I had weaponised their personal faults, or indeed claimed that what they said was indicative of being a personal fault. I read his post, and then read some more of h…

The author of that Climate Casino post has some... strong views. So you might want to bear this in mind when reading his analysis: "The human cancer is destructive to every living …

Derail Valley is about as serious at it gets!

Borderline delusional.

"Antares is a nuclear fission energy company developing compact microreactors for defense and space applications"

Why stop there? Maybe it's sabotage all the way down, like turtles? I'm sure that even if the official report totally excludes the possibility of sabotage, for some people that in …

No, sabotage doesn't hold up. The thing that rules it out is the braking, or rather lack of it. Passengers reported no screeching and no sudden deceleration before impact, which me…

"Ms. Harrington and Ms. Emanuel are labor economists and authors of the forthcoming book “In Person: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth."" Surprised pi…

This is starting to feel like a Peter Watts short story.

Large format artwork, limited edition/numbered pressings for collectability, limited edition/numbered pressings to try and sell on for a personal profit, supporting the band by pur…

> Fraser calls it “staycation”, which is a more accurate term and hasn’t been heard before. Hasn't been heard before? Major newspapers use the phrase "staycation" nearly every year…

All of Bullough's books are worth your time and variously go deeper into this very subject.