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Pleased to celebrate our new book Make Meaningful Culture is now available on Amazon - https://t.co/HfxPTHY1Ee Welcome your support. Thank you!
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Metrics are the visible fruit and flowers—the tangible signs of success that everyone sees. But beneath them lies the soil: the culture. You can’t see it, but it’s what makes everything grow. Without...
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. -- Carl Sagan
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BREAKING NEWS: Chinese scientists created material for the world’s first fabric television. You’ll be able to watch a movie on a handkerchief or create a bikini top that acts as a computer. And they’ll be tech devices that you can put into washing machines, says a paper
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BREAKING NEWS: US President Donald Trump today bullied the UK into backing away from a bid to fix one of the nastiest crimes against humanity in modern history. Prime Minister Keir Starmer today withdrew the Chagos Island bill after criticism from Trump. The bill would have
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Scientists have discovered that ants, after collecting grains and seeds which they need to store for the winter, actually break them into halves before storing in their nests. This is because by breaking the seeds into half, it stops them from germinating despite the most perfect
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Truly the most unabashedly dumb government in history. (there are of course no penguins in Greenland or anywhere near the North Pole, they're exclusively a Southern Hemisphere bird)
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Physics teacher demonstrates how to inflate a bag with a single breath using Bernoulli’s principle. [📹 Wolf_science] https://t.co/fs8cOF8C9J
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China has now started installing 20MW offshore wind turbines. You just need 50 of those to match the capacity of an average 1GW nuclear plant. This might sound trivial but think for a minute how much easier it is to install a wind turbine than it is to build a nuclear plant. The
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This is genuinely incredible and says so much about what "free speech" actually means for U.S. tech oligarchs, specifically Palantir's co-founder Joe Lonsdale in this instance. As a bit of background, the University of Austin (UATX) was created in 2021 by people like Lonsdale,
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I left my post as president of St. John’s College in Annapolis to build a university in Austin dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth.
Joe Lonsdale and the University of Austin, committed to intellectual freedom, viewpoint diversity, and ideological breadth (as long as you commit to his ideological principles)
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@RnaudBertrand Prime Minister @MarkJCarney explains his comment regarding the new world order". https://t.co/sBtImUuOq0
Reporter: What did you mean by the new world order? Carney: The architecture, the multilateral system is being eroded—undercut. The question is what gets built in its place...
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Canada's Prime Minister tells China that in "the new world order" he views the relationship as a "partnership with new focus, greater depth and a sense of purpose." https://t.co/ltJN9MI32p
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Golden sunlight streamed through the arches of a bridge in Jianshui, south China’s Yunnan.
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🇨🇳Who knew a 1960s Chinese revolutionary song would become 2026’s most on-point soundtrack? 🎶 “Down with the imperialist robber king” — once just a vintage anti-imperialist song, now a documentary theme song for US foreign policy 🤦♂️ Let’s recap: You fly 150+ warplanes to
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BREAKING NEWS: SIX STEPS THE U.N. MUST TAKE RIGHT NOW [Jeffrey D. Sachs' speech to the UN Security Council on the US attack on Venezuela] . MR PRESIDENT, DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS of the Security Council, the issue before the council today is not the character of the government of
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🇨🇳 China didn’t “copy” its way into AI. China engineered its way into a new paradigm. While the US keeps throwing more GPUs, more money, more electricity at the same old architecture, DeepSeek quietly walks out with a paper that basically says: “What if scaling isn’t about
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This is how China deals with snowy roads. A road in Sichuan can heat itself using smart heat-pipe systems beneath the surface, melting up to 3 centimeters of snow per hour. The system is powered by solar panels installed along the road. Such a smart and efficient way to keep
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This is a genuinely extraordinary achievement: Beijing's average PM2.5 was just 27 micrograms per cubic meter in 2025. I still remember a time, less than a decade ago, when it was routinely above 500 and you couldn't see beyond a few meters. https://t.co/omL0CgBjmh
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The Ministry of Ecology and Environment plans a two-phase update to national standards, raising the bar for cities after years of steady improvement
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If you want to take a short pause from the insanity of world affairs for the calm and wisdom of Chinese etymology, I found this breakdown of the character 赢 (yíng, "to win") quite interesting. So character that means "to win" or "success" (赢) is composed of: - 亡 (wáng) on
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In Zhuzhou, China, the world's first railless tram operates on virtual tracks, eliminating the need for physical rails. This innovative streetcar can travel up to 70 km/h and carry as many as 500 passengers. https://t.co/3taQ6TeWrJ
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Correct. My Tesla and SpaceX shares, which are almost all my “wealth”, only go up in value as a function of how much useful product those companies produce and service. This means my “wealth” can only increase due to producing more products and services for the public.
🧠🪱 Elons stocks aren’t wealth. If the number of Tesla shares doubled the world isn’t any richer. If the number of Tesla cars doubled, it’s measurably richer. For him to get to $1t in capital, he has to organize labor to set the means of production in motion to produce
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