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Thu, 26/02/2026 - 01:30
We have a very odd spectacle right now: Anthropic’s CEO has said the US government cannot use Anthropic products if they will not guarantee that they won’t be used for autonomous military robots (firing without human intervention) or mass surveillance. The Pentagon has responded by threatening to eminent domain Claude, and make their own version. […]
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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 20:33

Carlo Masala’s short work of speculative fiction, If Russia Wins: A Scenario, was a bestseller when it was published in Germany last year. Masala is a professor of international relations at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, having previously served as deputy director of research at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Since 2022, he has […]

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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 19:00
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February 25th, 2026: Toronto has been wet for weeks now. It snows but then it melts a bit, or it rains.

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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 10:54
Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately!  As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond.  So, here’s a European culture story.  (This is Part 2,  You can find Part 1 here.) Okay, so Imperia!  Big concrete statue on the shore of Lake Constance.  Medieval sex worker.  9 meters tall, weighs […]
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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 07:11

The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, including by smuggling Starlink terminals and fashioning anti-Iran narratives for the media. Damon Wilson, the head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on February 24 after revealing that his agency “began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on” amid the […]

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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 01:33
There’s an idea going around that virtues are anti-competitive. That being loyal, honorable, honest, generous, kind, etc… puts you at a disadvantage. It’s one of those half true statements. It’s true if your society is shit, but in a decent society it can be disadvantage, and if a society has predominantly virtueless people in charge, […]
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Wed, 25/02/2026 - 01:05
Perhaps the foremost financial crisis theorist of our time, Hyman Minsky, had as his central idea that crises are endogenous (system-internal) phenomena where stability creates instability and reduces safety margins for financial transactions with excessively high leverage effects. During the upswing phase of financial bubbles, safety margins shrink, and even the smallest setback can lead […]
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Tue, 24/02/2026 - 20:22

Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe’s claim that Britain has been ‘colonised by immigrants’ exposes a clear contradiction. Few institutions have benefited more from migration than Manchester United — a club built by people crossing borders in pursuit of opportunity. Migration has driven the team’s success, while leadership failures and financialised ownership have eroded it. This contradiction […]

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Tue, 24/02/2026 - 07:27
. Back in the 1980s, yours truly had the pleasure of studying German in Vienna  (I must have been a diligent student, since at the end of the studies, I was awarded an honorary silver medal at a graduation ceremony. When not studying or visiting Berggase 19, I often listened to Ultravox on my Sony […]