via The New York Times:
Police in India Use Tear Gas to Break Up Another Youth Protest
by Anupreeta Das
published on August 10, 2026
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For years, China’s rising power has rested on a fragile balance of economic freedom and political control, in what early Party reformers called the “birdcage economy”—airy enough to allow enterprises to thrive, but not capacious enough to sacrifice power. That arrangement has rarely looked more tenuous.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York featuring Tatiana Maslany, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, and Steve Buscemi. Distributed by Sony Pictures.
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The Brink of War
The Brink of War
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Campus Life at the
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Call me a romantic, but I believe that there will be a future, and indeed a long future, beyond 2027. History will not end. We need to cultivate the skill of exact thinking in demented times.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Comedy Break
via Breanna Banaciski
h/t @tampa_bre
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First-semester freshman grades at M.I.T. are reported as either pass or no record, to allow students time to get accustomed to an increased college workload and different teaching methods, the M.I.T. Registrar’s Office explains on its website.
~ Mark Arsenault via The New York Times
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What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion.
~ William Gibson
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