So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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9 Things Experts Wish You’d Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity
by Dana G. Smith
published on July 28, 2026
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One important—maybe the most important—thing about noir is that it can’t get by on plot alone. Almost every page of A Violent Masterpiece has a spark and crackle of language, detail, idea.
~ Carolyn Kellogg via The Atlantic
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University of Aberdeen
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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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University of Strathclyde
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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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via The New York Times:
Chinese A.I. Start-Up Shows the World What It Has Built
by Meaghan Tobin
published on July 27, 2026
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