swiss kids hunched over their black boxes....
“But everyone else has one!”
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not even a spicy meme........
Last week, a friend asked if I was worried about Chinese “nuclear threats".
I asked where he had heard that.
He showed me his phone.
“WE OPPOSE: CHINA ISSUES NUKE WARNING AFTER AUSTRALIA-US DEAL.”
ordering the pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing.....
Kremlin vows response if US violates nuclear moratoriumUS leader Donald Trump earlier said he had ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear arms trials
Russia will respond “accordingly” if the US violates a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
ASEAN global players.....
ASEAN is quite a delicate geopolitical entity: gracious, polite and consensual but at the same time, always privileging its “centrality”. The collective 11 Southeast Asians (East Timor is the new member) are very serious global players - with a GDP of $3.8 trillion, and constantly rising.
hurling accusations that fit his own image....
Even as Donald Trump crisscrosses the globe, bringing his purported peacemaking skills to parts of the world that did not even know they were at war, his administration has openly been preparing for militarised regime change in Venezuela. Neighbouring Colombia too isn’t safe.
dot AI bubble....
“Keeping perspective” is Michael Pascoe’s mantra. He writes that AI mania has not just warped perspective, it risks blowing up reality.
in conversation with a few figures....
What makes a life virtuous? The answer might seem simple: virtuous actions – actions that align with morality.
But life is more than doing. Frequently, we just think. We observe and spectate; meditate and contemplate. Life often unfolds in our heads.
politice correctus acceptance....
WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN, a hundred years ago
CUM SEDECIM ANNOS ERIM, ante centum annos
I wondered about men having tits
De viris uberibus cogitabam
To feed the kids when women were hunting
Ad liberos pascendos cum feminae venantur
And women speaking in a manly voice
optimism from a certain bill gates.................
Climate change is serious, but we’ve made great progress. We need to keep backing the breakthroughs that will help the world reach zero emissions.
But we can’t cut funding for health and development—programs that help people stay resilient in the face of climate change—to do it.
