At least Xitler made the trains run on time
China’s infrastructure really is impressive. But the social-media presentation of it has become almost comically selective: a handful of spectacular
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The One-Percent Climate Fix Nobody Wants to Talk About
What if global warming could be cooled down almost immediately, not by rebuilding the entire world economy, but by reflecting
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New MIT study: AI Scaling Has a Limit. Perhaps Silicon Valley Already Knows It.
For years, the AI industry has run on one extraordinarily successful idea: Make the models bigger. More parameters. More training
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Pete Hegseth’s Claim About Iranians Cheering 9/11 Doesn’t Match the Record
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that Iran is “an Islamic theocracy
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Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks up in rare retrograde orbit, adding long-lived debris
A Chinese military reconnaissance satellite has fragmented in orbit, creating a new cloud of debris in a rarely used and
Influencers rent trash to pretend cleaning nature parks
Hikers and a volunteer cleanup team (led by “左左” / Zuo Zuo of a Jiaxing hiking group) found large numbers
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82% of Headlines Left Out China: Even AI is wrong when asked about “Nepal Floods”
When catastrophic flooding tore through the China-Nepal Himalayan border region in August 2026, international coverage quickly settled on a familiar
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We Need a Bigger Quantum Computer to Tell Us What the Smaller One Is For
(Or: The Quantum Craze That Keeps Asking for One More Qubit… Forever) Remember when artificial intelligence was still the slightly
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Wang Wang: The Stray Mother Dog Whose Death Exposed China’s Animal Cruelty Blind Spot
On a quiet street in Pingpu Village, Xinheng Town, Jieyang, Guangdong, a gentle stray mother dog known to locals as
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