Horrific. We have this precious planet--a little oasis surrounded in space by endlessly beautiful desolation--teaming with life and bustling with ecosystems, painted with blues and greens, yet we've systematically obliterated this priceless treasure with almost zero compunction.

Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan have reportedly reached a deal on the Zangezur corridor, with Russia entirely excluded from the process. If true, this marks a seismic shift in the region's geopolitics and would be a massive loss for the Kremlin.

As a thoroughly russified Qazaq kid growing up in the 1980s Almaty, I had deeply internalized the Russo-centric view of Qazaq-speaking Qazaqs as being rural and backwards. Embarrassingly, for many years, I failed to understand what now seems so painfully obvious. 1/10

My infatuation with Russian culture and my contempt toward the language of my own ancestors were byproducts of Moscow’s colonial rule in Central Asia. When the colonized learn to look down on their own language and culture, the settler colonial project is complete. 2/10

Having internalized Russian colonial gaze, I had once foolishly viewed Qazaq-speaking people as archaic and ignorant. It turns out I was the ignorant one. It is humbling to have been so wrong for such a long time. But, as they say, better late than never. 10/10

Remember WESTWORLD? The show that broke viewership records and was nominated for 54 Emmys? HBO Max deleted it from their catalog just four months after the final episode aired.

Lyme disease is so ancient it's been discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies. Not man made Not a bioweapon ⁦Joe Rogan⁩ talking nonsense here

The amount of anti-Ukraine propaganda coming out of Hungary's Orban regime is wild.

O’er the landdddd of the free* *unless you want a pixie cut

You better gag them, Raven!!!

For people interested in better understanding how LLM (large language model) AI tech works—and how it can be used for better or for worse—I highly recommend this accessible explainer. By Ryan Cooper for The American Prospect Link below.

It is very strange reading headlines implying that the country that is unilaterally making things more expensive for its own people is somehow "winning" relative to places that are not

Curtis Yarvin the point of this post is stupid, putting the "n-word" aside meaning that the real point of the post is... just to use the "n-word" but then you don't *actually* use it must be hard to find where the edge is at when youre an edgelord

I can’t be the only one that sees it? The Nerd Reich should be constantly ridiculed through satire for the fascist freaks that they are. Armisen is the perfect Yarvin.

So profoundly sad. In this case, silence literally = death. A metaphor and a reality.

“Back then, marriage used to last.” Yeah, because your grandma couldn’t open a bank account or file for divorce without a man. She had no rights and nowhere to go.

𝗄𝖺𝗄𝗁𝗈𝗓𝖺 Longevity isn’t always proof of love. Sometimes it’s just proof of limited options and silent suffering.

Silicon Valley reinvents the cult compound. “What do cultish and fundamentalist religions often do? They get people to ignore their common sense about problems in the here and now in order to focus their attention on some fantastical future.” 🎁Link: nytimes.com/2025/08/04/tec…

The damage that will result from this will take decades to fix — if ever

Sharing more about Embodied Future frontiers & why we’re overdue to shift towards Life-Centric Design with Will Travis (formerly Dentsu America Ceo & Sid Lee executive chairman) on the Elevation Barn Podcast: youtu.be/FX_jC257klE?si…