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The influence of bits on the world of atoms, identifying people worth trusting, the origin of joy, the decoupling of the American Dream from the university, and more. https://sotonye.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-tomorrow-an-interview?r=d2gko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy&s=09

Donald Trump is out of the White House — and mostly gone from the public eye — but his grip on the G.O.P. base has probably never been stronger. NYT

The latest meme. Democracy is dying in America (perhaps true) but it’s the populist’s fault. They are forcing the progressives to be fascist. By casting the Other as monstrous racists it is psychologically possible to justify the reprehensible as necessity.

Treasury officials on Wednesday urged Congress to pass either a new borrowing limit or another suspension of the debt before a July 31 deadline. The Treasury will continue to initiate the types of bookkeeping maneuvers it has used in the past to keep the government from breaching a level that would trigger a default on …

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Many active cases in tourism reliant country despite Sinovac vaccination. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56992121

Organized crime unhappy Prinsloo made them look like clowns.

Colonizing Mars with microorganisms https://interestingengineering.com/fungus-growing-on-mars

We’re not in Kansas anymore. https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/caitlyn-jenners-anti-newsom-ad-previews-big-challenge-for-dems/

I won’t blow smoke up your exhaust pipe because 2022 will be one tough election. Between a media that relishes lying, to a corrupt court afraid of being mobbed at home, to a Democrat Party that will ruthlessly churn out fake votes like confetti for a tickertape parade, the game is stacked against Republicans Don …

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Starship lands successfully.

If political incorrectness is a disease it ought to ban itself. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/01/867200259/protests-over-racism-versus-risk-of-covid-i-wouldn-t-weigh-these-crises-separate?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&s=09

The most important divorce in America today is not between Bill and Melinda Gates but within the political center. What held it together was the need to pay the national bills and the glue of residual shared culture.

Identity politics in Africa. https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/ethiopia-at-a-crossroads-amid-spiraling-ethnic-conflict/