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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

23: Russia

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
Prophecies Are Proof Of God
The Most Awaited Person In Human History Is Here
Nepal: The Vishwa Guru Of A New Economic Era (English and Hindi)

In an Easter post, Trump said the businessmen who've criticized his tariffs are bad at both business and politics
Scott Galloway Predicts Fortune 500 CEOs and GOP Leaders Will Start Speaking Out Against Trump: ‘The Worm Has Turned’

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
Prophecies Are Proof Of God
The Most Awaited Person In Human History Is Here
Nepal: The Vishwa Guru Of A New Economic Era (English and Hindi)

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
Prophecies Are Proof Of God
The Most Awaited Person In Human History Is Here
Nepal: The Vishwa Guru Of A New Economic Era (English and Hindi)

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
Prophecies Are Proof Of God
The Most Awaited Person In Human History Is Here
Nepal: The Vishwa Guru Of A New Economic Era (English and Hindi)

What Trump Isn’t Telling You About His Trade War With China Trump may be more dangerous to his own side of a trade war than to the other guy. ....... China buys agricultural products and airplanes from America, and it can almost certainly get what it needs elsewhere. But where is the United States going to get rare-earth minerals, essential for American industry and the military-industrial base? .......... China is the OPEC of rare earths, which are essential for American industry and for military production ........ A single F-35 fighter plane contains some 900 pounds of rare earths, and a submarine may use more than four tons of them........ Trump’s concerns about China are in many ways legitimate: It has manipulated trade. He’s right that our weakness in manufacturing and supply lines is a critical security deficiency, especially given China’s strengths in areas like drones and batteries. I’d be delighted if Trump tackled these issues seriously with targeted tariffs, a crackdown on transshipments to evade tariffs, subsidies for critical industries at home and cooperation with allies abroad. Instead, it’s not quite clear what his aim is, and the United States has gone out of its way to antagonize allies. ........ One alarming sign: Even before the latest tariffs, a poll in Southeast Asia found that for the first time, a majority of people there would choose China over the United States if forced to align with one side or the other. ........... China has other tools available in this trade war with America beyond stopping most exports of rare earths. It could stop its limited cooperation on narcotics and turn a blind eye to its greedy private companies that would like to export fentanyl to America or fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexico. Conversely, it could tighten shipments to the United States of cardiovascular or cancer medicines that Americans rely on. ....... China could also dump U.S. Treasuries for a few days, panicking the bond market and weakening the dollar. ......... It has already burrowed into American infrastructure as part of its Volt Typhoon cyberespionage campaign and could try turning the lights off in a small American city or creating havoc for a day in the banking system. ............... economic forecasters think a recession is far more likely in the United States than in China. .......... There’s nothing wrong with picking the right fight and taking a stand, and China’s trade policies are a legitimate target. But Trump’s campaign seems destined to fracture our alliances and magnify American weakness. He is taking a tariff to a gunfight.

The Trade Adviser Who Hates Trade Once sidelined, President Trump’s counselor Peter Navarro has returned to Washington and quickly upended the global trading system. .............. On a clear day last July in Miami, Peter Navarro emerged from four months in federal prison, where he’d been imprisoned for contempt of Congress. Mr. Navarro had refused to testify in an investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, an action he described as a defense of the Constitution.......... Just hours after his release from prison, Mr. Navarro flew to Milwaukee to speak at the Republican National Convention in support of Donald J. Trump’s re-election............ “They convicted me, they jailed me. Guess what? They did not break me,” he said that night, punctuating each word as the crowd roared. It was an exercise in loyalty to Mr. Trump that seems to have paid off. .......... For much of Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Navarro, a trade adviser, had been sidelined, mocked and minimized by other officials who saw his protectionist views on trade as factually wrong and dangerous for the country. ......... Earlier this month, Mr. Navarro publicly sparred over the tariffs with Elon Musk, who he dismissed as “a car assembler,” not a “car manufacturer.” Mr. Musk responded that the trade adviser was “dumber than a sack of bricks,” later adding that the comparison was “unfair to bricks.” ......... who have cringed at his ideas and mocked him for his quirks, like inventing a fictitious expert named Ron Vara (an anagram of Navarro) he quoted in his books. ........

“It’s like appointing someone who believes the world is flat to be in charge of NASA”

......... Mr. Navarro went on to earn a Ph.D in economics from Harvard. He believed in the benefits of free trade, and in 1984, he published his first book, which featured a chapter defending it. (“I drank the Kool-Aid,” he said in the January interview.) ............ He taught business and economics, first in San Diego and then at the University of California, Irvine, where he became a tenured professor and worked for more than 20 years. He spent his nights lecturing and his days writing books (“Big Picture Investing” and “If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks”) and appearing as a commentator on TV. ........... He wrote for well-regarded economic journals and coauthored a paper with someone who went on to win a Nobel Prize. ........... An environmentalist and social liberal, he ran for office repeatedly as a Democrat, and spoke at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. He also ran for San Diego mayor, in a campaign that was focused on blocking big developers. ........... His key finding was that it wasn’t just cheap labor driving prices, but a suite of predatory trading practices, including export subsidies, currency manipulation and a lack of protections for workers and the environment. .................... Mr. Navarro said his first contact with the future president came after a 2011 blog post in the Los Angeles Times that described Mr. Trump giving an interview to the Chinese press, in which Mr. Trump supposedly rattled off his 20 favorite books on China. Mr. Navarro’s “The Coming China Wars” was among them. ................. as the United States descended into the pandemic, Mr. Navarro became more enmeshed in conspiracy theories. He sparred with Anthony Fauci, the president’s former chief medical adviser, over using hydroxychloroquine for treating Covid, something Mr. Trump promoted and which Mr. Navarro continues to strongly support.

Will This Conservative Legal Doctrine Undo Trump’s First Months in Office? A legal doctrine popularized by conservatives on the Supreme Court to constrain the reach of regulatory agencies is now being brandished by opponents of President Trump to challenge his seemingly boundless claims of presidential power. ......... The doctrine, a particularly potent brand of judge-made law that coalesced in Supreme Court rulings in recent years, requires the government to point to a “clear congressional authorization” when it makes decisions of great “economic and political significance.” .......... One of the most recent challenges against the Trump administration was brought by a conservative legal group, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, against the president’s economy-rattling tariffs. Because the tariffs present a matter of “vast economic and political significance,” the group argues in its lawsuit, the major questions doctrine requires the president to show that the law he invoked “clearly authorizes” the tariffs. “The president cannot make that showing,” the group asserts on behalf of a Florida stationery retailer. .......... the legal argument they are advancing would also undo much of his first three months in office. For like his tariffs, Mr. Trump’s attempts to freeze federal funding, revoke birthright citizenship, interfere with states’ administration of their elections and slash the government using the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are all issues of major national significance that Congress has not clearly authorized the president to decide. .......... Many lawsuits raising these exact arguments are now pending in federal courts around the country. ........... Here is the doctrine being wielded again in a brief filed by 14 states challenging the sweeping actions taken by Elon Musk and DOGE: On the question of whether Mr. Musk or DOGE has clear congressional authority to take “major economic, political and social” actions to dismantle the federal government, the states argue: “The answer is a resounding no. Defendants do not even attempt to suggest otherwise.” .......... The thrust of the major questions doctrine, though, is that even if the president were right on the substance, these are all major issues that Congress ought to decide given its role as our nation’s constitutionally ordained lawmaking institution.

"Maybe I Can Live In India": What JD Vance's Son Said After PM's Dinner
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Harvard University sues to block Trump from slashing billions in research funding
Big Tech’s Troubles We explain why the government is trying to break up companies like Meta and Google........... Not so long ago, Washington was smitten with Silicon Valley. But then tech companies consolidated power, and lawmakers grew skeptical. Over time, members of both parties decided they had to dismantle what they felt were monopolies. .......... For everyday Americans, less competition can mean lower wages, higher prices and worse products. The classic example is internet service. Across much of the country, people have only one or two options for internet. Providers get away with higher prices, spotty coverage and bad customer service because they know their users don’t have better alternatives. ...........

Corporate consolidation across all industries costs the typical American household more than $5,000 a year

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption
Prophecies Are Proof Of God
The Most Awaited Person In Human History Is Here
Nepal: The Vishwa Guru Of A New Economic Era (English and Hindi)

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Friday, April 18, 2025

18: Ukraine

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Trump’s Trade War
Peace For Taiwan Is Possible
The Last Age of War, The First Age of Peace: Lord Kalki, Prophecies, and the Path to Global Redemption

Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

19: Russia

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Monday, June 26, 2023

26: Russia

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A star cluster in the Milky Way appears to be as old as the universe Measuring ages of ancient clusters like M92 can help resolve a puzzle about cosmic evolution ......... One of the oldest known objects in the universe is wandering around the Milky Way. ......... One of the oldest known objects in the universe is wandering around the Milky Way. ....... The team found the cluster is 13.8 billion years old, give or take 750 million years. That’s strikingly close to the best estimate of the age of the universe: a smidge over 13.8 billion years, plus or minus 24 million years

Trump, the Worst Boss You’ve Ever Had Donald Trump did not — and does not — recognize any distinction between himself and the office of the presidency. He is it, and it is him. .......... This view is as close a fundamental rejection of American constitutionalism as you can imagine — and it helps explain much of the former president’s behavior in and out of office. It is why he could not abide any opposition to anything he tried to pursue, why he raged against the “deep state,” why he strained against every limit on his authority, why he rejected the very idea that he could lose the 2020 presidential election and why he decided he could simply take classified documents to his home in Florida. ...... For Trump, he is the president. He is the government. The documents, in his mind, belonged to him. .......... Of course, business owners have always been a critical part of state and local Republican politics. The nation’s state legislatures and county boards of supervisors are full of the proprietors of family-owned car dealerships, fast food franchises, construction companies, landscaping businesses and regional distribution firms. And in fact, many of the most visible and important families in conservative politics have their own family firms, albeit supersized ones: the Kochs, the DeVoses, the Crows and the Trumps. ............ No longer content to run government for business, the Republican Party now hopes to run government as a business. ........... government as the fief of a small-business tyrant.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

14: The Beatles



Paul McCartney Says A.I. Helped Complete ‘Last’ Beatles Song The song was made using a demo with John Lennon’s voice and will be released later this year, McCartney said. ......... “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this A.I., so then we could mix the record, as you would normally do.” ......... Proponents of the technology say it has the power to disrupt the music business in the ways that synthesizers, sampling, and file-sharing services did. ......... Over McCartney’s career, he has been quick to engage with new creative technologies, whether talking about synthesizers or samplers .

Russian Forces Strike Back Against Ukraine’s Advancing Troops Russia attacked Ukrainian troops near villages in Ukraine’s south on the same day that Russian missiles killed at least 11 people and that President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged some Russian losses. ......... President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, speaking to Russian war correspondents and military bloggers, acknowledged that his forces had suffered some losses in June, including 54 tanks. He denied Ukraine’s assertions of progress on the battlefield, though, insisting that its military had lost hundreds more tanks and vehicles than Russia with no gains to speak of. ......... “The opponent has had no success in any area,” he said. “They have had heavy losses.” ........... He said that he was aware of the hawkish calls for another major draft, but added that such a decision “depends on what we want” to do and that “there was no such need today.” ........... the Russian attack on Ukraine’s vanguard suggested Kyiv’s troops faced a dangerous problem ahead. As they emerge from their trenches, military analysts say, they move out of the range of their own army’s air defenses and electronic jamming systems, leaving them vulnerable to Russian air attacks like those on Tuesday. .......... Ukraine has yet to commit the bulk of its forces, including those trained by Western allies, to any one place to drive a wedge through Russian-occupied land in the southeast. ........... Russia’s defensive strategy of aerial counterstrikes could slow Ukraine's campaign, giving Russian troops more time to lay down even more defenses. Ukrainian forces have already faced minefields, trenches, anti-tank ditches, air assaults and artillery fire .............. “Our night counterattacks began,” Mr. Rogov wrote, adding that the Russian military was flying sorties with two models of attack helicopters. Both armies were firing artillery in the area .......... The United States has already sent 109 Bradleys and 90 Strykers to Ukraine, according to the Defense Department, and has committed $40 billion overall in arms, ammunition and equipment since Russia’s invasion last year. Some European countries have also sent dozens of armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine in the past months........... Ukraine’s General Staff said on its Facebook page that air defenses had destroyed 10 of 14 cruise missiles and shot down one of four Iranian-made Shahed drones used in Russia’s overnight strike. The attack was part of Russian efforts to “exhaust” Ukraine’s air defenses .

He’s No Jack Kennedy there is a case to make in appreciation of candidates who hail from families that take public service seriously and who are familiar with the weird world of politics. Exhibit A is Nancy Pelosi, the most formidable and effective House speaker in more than 60 years, who learned much about her craft growing up in a local Democratic dynasty in Baltimore.

Lock Him Up It is stunning to read the grand jury’s 37-count indictment, with its depictions of a former president treating the law with the contemptuous disdain of a Mafia don — but with none of a don’s concern for covering his tracks. It is even more stunning to hear what some of those in the legal community who have been defenders of Trump have to say about it. ....... As for the suggestion that Trump is the victim of a witch hunt, Barr noted that the Justice Department had “acted in a very patient way” in trying to obtain documents from Trump, only to be met with “very egregious obstruction.” ........ None of this will sway Trump’s base because nothing will sway them. .......... But what about more mainstream conservatives who know the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that Jan. 6 was a disgrace for the ages, that Trump is a one-time-lucky serial loser whose bottomless narcissism keeps costing Republicans winnable Senate and gubernatorial races, that his entire presidency was a drunken joyride with a reckless driver careening around hairpin turns at high speed, that his renomination as the G.O.P. candidate would give President Biden his best shot at re-election and that another Trump presidency would be an orgy of petty political retribution and reckless policymaking that would make his first term seem, by comparison, responsible and tame? ................ They are, with few exceptions, supine. ......... It remains true that the federal prosecution of Trump, along with his potential conviction and incarceration, will be a fateful moment in American history. Far more fateful would have been the failure to prosecute. If Trump can be above the law, in a case of this kind, then we will have lost the rule of law.

C.I.A. Told Ukraine Last Summer It Should Not Attack Nord Stream Pipelines Dutch intelligence officials shared information with the C.I.A. in June 2022 that they had learned the Ukrainian military had been planning an operation using divers to blow up one of the pipelines.......... Explosions destroyed parts of the pipelines, which carry natural gas from Russia to Europe, in September. The Ukrainian government has repeatedly denied responsibility for the attack. .......... American intelligence agencies now believe the operation was carried out at least with the loose direction of the Ukrainian government, but they do not know who exactly planned the operation. .......... Some officials have worried that Ukrainian involvement would weaken support for the war among Germans, who have swallowed high energy prices during the conflict. While it is still possible that further revelations could shift public opinion in Germany, for now Berlin has continued to increase its military aid to Kyiv and had provided many of the tanks being used in the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive.

I Studied Five Countries’ Health Care Systems. We Need to Get More Creative With Ours. Despite just experiencing a pandemic in which over one million Americans died, health care reform doesn’t seem to be a top political issue in the United States right now. That’s a mistake. The American health care system is broken. We are one of the few developed countries that does not have universal coverage. We spend an extraordinary amount on health care, far more than anyone else. And our broad outcomes are middling at best.......... When we do pay attention to this issue, our debates are profoundly unproductive. Discussions of reform here in the United States seem to focus on two options: Either we maintain the status quo of what we consider a “private” system, or we move toward a single-payer system like Canada’s. That’s always been an odd choice to me because true single-payer systems like that one are relatively rare in the world, and Canada performs almost as poorly as we do in many international rankings. ..........

no one has a system quite as complicated as ours.

............. They think that our system is somehow part of America’s DNA, something that grew from the Constitution or the founding fathers. Others believe that the health care systems in different countries couldn’t work here because of our system’s size. .......... Our employer-based insurance system is the way it is because of World War II wage freezes and I.R.S. tax policy, not the will of the founders. And much of health care is regulated at the state level, so our size isn’t really an outlier. We could change things if we wanted to............ Australia and New Zealand are two other countries with single-payer systems out there, although their systems differ greatly from that of Canada and from each other’s. Unlike our neighbor to the north, they allow private insurance for most care, which can be applied to pay for faster access with more bells and whistles. In addition, Australia’s system has fairly high out-of-pocket payments, in the form of deductibles and co-pays. .............. France’s system is close to a single-payer one because almost everyone gets insurance from one of a few collective funds, mostly determined by employment or life situations. They also have out-of-pocket payments and expect most people to pay upfront for outpatient care, to be reimbursed later by insurance. ......... Britain, on the other hand, has no out-of-pocket payments for almost all care. Private insurance is optional, as it is in other countries, to pay for care that may come faster and with more amenities. Relatively few people purchase it, though. ........... Singapore has a completely different model. It relies on individuals’ personal spending more than almost any other developed country in the world, with insurance only really available for catastrophic coverage, or for access to a private system that, again, relatively few use. .............

It’s outrageous that the health care system hasn’t been a significant issue in the 2024 presidential race so far.

........... Even if we did have that national conversation, I fear we’d be arguing about the wrong things. We have spent the last several decades fighting about health insurance coverage. It’s what animated the discussions of reform in the 1990s. It’s what led to the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago. It’s what we are still arguing about. The only thing we seem able to focus on concerns insurance — who provides it, and who gets it. ............. Insurance is really just about moving money around. It’s the least important part of the health care system. .......... Universal coverage matters. What doesn’t is how you provide that coverage, whether it’s a fully socialized National Health Service, modified single-payer schemes, regulated nonprofit insurance or private health savings accounts. All of the countries I visited have some sort of mechanism that provides everyone coverage in an easily explained and uniform way. That allows them to focus on other, more important aspects of health care. ................. We have all types of coverage schemes, from veteran’s affairs to Medicare, the Obamacare exchanges and employer-based health insurance, and when put together they don’t work well. They’re all too complicated, too inefficient and fail to achieve the goal of universal coverage. Our complexity, and the administrative inefficiency that comes with it, is holding us back. ........... More recently, I favored the tightly regulated, entirely private insurance system of Switzerland because it performs exceptionally well using a private scheme I thought would be more palatable to many Americans. ............ If we could agree on a simpler scheme — any one of them — we could start to focus on what matters: the delivery of health services. ............ In the United States, on the other hand, most care is provided by private hospitals, either for-profit or nonprofit. Even nonprofit systems compete for revenue, and they do so by providing more amenity-laden care. This competition for more patient volume leads to higher prices, and while we don’t explicitly ration care, we do so indirectly by requiring deductibles and co-pays, forcing many to avoid care because of cost. Our focus on what pays — acute care — also leads us to ignore primary care and prevention to a larger extent. ............. allowing people to choose whether to accept cheaper care delivered by a public system or to pay more for care in a private system might make this much more palatable. By doing so, we could make sure that good care is available to all, even if better care is available to some. ............. More than 80 percent of Singaporeans live in public housing, which involves more than one million flats that were built and subsidized by the government. Almost all Singaporeans own their own homes, too, even publicly subsidized ones; only about 10 percent of them rent. ............ Because of government subsidies, most people spend less than 25 percent of their income on housing and can choose between buying new flats at highly subsidized prices or flats available for resale on an open market. ......... the government is only spending about 5 percent of G.D.P. on health care. This leaves a fair amount available for other social policies, such as housing. .......... As part of New Zealand’s reforms, its Public Health Agency, which was established less than a year ago, specifically puts a “greater emphasis on equity and the wider determinants of health such as income, education and housing.” It also specifically seeks to address racism in health care, especially that which affects the Maori population.............. Addressing these issues in the United States would require significant investment, to the tune of hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars a year. That seems impossible until you remember that we spent more than $4.4 trillion on health care in 2022. We just don’t think of social policies like housing, food and education as health care. .................. Our narrow view too often defines health care as what you get when you’re sick, not what you might need to remain well. .............. When other countries choose to spend less on their health care systems (and it is a choice), they take the money they save and invest it in programs that benefit their citizens by improving social determinants of health. In the United States, conversely, we argue that the much less resourced programs we already have need to be cut further. The recent debt limit compromise reduces discretionary spending and makes it harder for people to access government programs like food stamps. As Mr. Elshaug noted, doing the opposite would lead to better outcomes. ............... We currently spend about 18 percent of G.D.P. on health care. That’s almost $12,000 per American. It’s about twice what other countries currently spend...........

We cannot seem to do what other countries think is easy, while we’ve happily decided to do what other countries think is impossible.





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Sunday, June 11, 2023

DemocracyTech: Google Search Gives Zero Results

Democracy For Russia from Paramendra Bhagat on Vimeo.

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

18: India, Russia, China

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Monday, March 13, 2023

13: News Bulletin

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13
HSBC plans to acquire Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1, citing “strategic sense for our business”; as of March 10, SVB UK had ~£5.5B loans and ~£6.7B deposits
Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice
SVB draws support from 500+ VCs, including General Catalyst and Sequoia, while 5,000+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking US Congress to act
Sources: long before its collapse, SVB remained technologically stagnant, including failing to integrate Stripe's tech and biometric authentication on mobile



CNN wins its first Oscar for Navalny, in the documentary feature film category, about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and commissioned by CNN Films and HBO Max
New York shuts down Signature Bank as US regulators cite a “systemic risk exception” like for SVB, announcing all of Signature's depositors will be “made whole”
The closure of SVB, Silvergate, Silvergate Exchange Network, and Signature adds stress to a troubled crypto industry; fiat conversion costs may rise by 20%-40%
Signature closing means its real-time payment platform Signet can no longer serve crypto clients, a blow after SEN closed; BTC jumps ~7% and USDC regains peg
As AI explodes, humanity must accelerate its adaptation or reach a collective, enforceable decision to slow the development of these technologies

A YouTuber who went viral as a toddler says she resents her family for monetizing her childhood, as some influencer parents take their children off social media
Netflix wins six Oscars, including the Best International Feature Film for All Quiet on the Western Front and the Best Animated Feature Film for Pinocchio
A developer runs Meta's 13B LLaMA model, considered to be competitive with GPT-3, on his laptop, showing local language models are feasible on consumer hardware
Meta plans to block Canadians' ability to view or share written and broadcast news on Facebook and Instagram if the country passes its proposed Online News Act
A look at the unprecedented level of executive turnover at Apple, which lost 11 key people, most just below Senior Vice President, since the second half of 2022

Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn't understand their communities
Worried that cloud giants offer concentrated hacking targets, the US plans to regulate the security practices of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and others
An interview with Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams as he re-launches his location-based social networking app at SXSW, 14 years after its debut



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