American AI May Not Survive Chinese Open-Source
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Francis19 Aug 2026
The AI industry has been rocked by recent large-language model (LLM) releases from Chinese labs, most notably the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot.
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top 75%Friendship paradox: Why young people feel ‘too connected to connect’
Scroll.inby Sam Carr, The Conversation19 Aug 2026
You know what’s happening in the lives of dozens of people. A friend from school has just had a baby. Someone you follow online recently got engaged. A colleague has returned from a holiday.
‘Regime Change’: This book about Donald Trump’s second term is essential, chilling reading
Scroll.inby Matthew Ricketson, The Conversation19 Aug 2026
Not long after the Second World War, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum.
Inspired by Japanese Farming, She Built a 30,000-Farmer Movement to Save 1,000 Forgotten Rice Varieties
The Better Indiaby Hiren Kumar Bose19 Aug 2026
In the early 1980s, India was still reeling from the Bhopal gas tragedy when a young agriculture officer in Palakkad, Kerala, found her compass in a slim book from Japan.
Thomas Blom Hansen on Hindutva’s Growing Hegemony in India
Frontlineby Abhish K Bose19 Aug 2026
Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He founded and directed Stanford’s Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017.
Bangladesh to Nepal, revolutions toppled regimes but lasting change is elusive
Scroll.inby HM Nazmul Alam, Counterpoint19 Aug 2026
Two years after Bangladesh’s July uprising, the country’s greatest political lesson is no longer about how an authoritarian government fell.
Radical Chic: How the MAGA Movement Is Hijacking Style
Vanity Fairby Robin Givhan19 Aug 2026
One of my favorite aspects of life in Washington, DC, has always been the ability to drive across town and spend a few hours in another country.
Fiction: A family’s personal history from the Anglo-Sikh wars to the uneasy years of British rule
Scroll.inby Priya Hajela19 Aug 2026
When I talk about Henry Lawrence and Jeremiah Brasyer, the first thought that comes to most people’s minds is, “Those firangis, how can you have anything good to say about them, especially now when...
Pakistan’s Indus Heritage and the Crisis of Identity
Frontlineby Anurag Punetha19 Aug 2026
“Better Off in a Home”. That was the curious title TIME magazine chose for its report on the birth of Pakistan in its August 25, 1947, issue.
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff19 Aug 2026
On August 19, 1876, the Catalpa rescue reached a conclusion as the whaling ship docked in New York Harbor, having successfully carried six Fenian revolutionaries from a penal colony in Australia.
After all my years of parental anxiety, and all their current issues, I've come to realise games are the most optimistic way I've found of looking at the world
Eurogamer.net Latest Articlesby Christian Donlan19 Aug 2026
I was not a natural parent. The love was there instantly, but with it came all this anxiety I had not expected.
Arabic has four words for sadness. Philosophy explains why | Psyche Ideas
Psycheby Chereen Shurafa19 Aug 2026
As a PhD student researching mental health data among Arabic speakers, much of my time is spent analysing how they talk about emotional experience.
Warsaw Uprising veteran and activist Wanda Traczyk-Stawska dies aged 99
Notes from Polandby Daniel Tilles19 Aug 2026
Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that...
The History of the Plow
Everything Everywhereby Gary Arndt19 Aug 2026
Podcast Transcript For most of human history, growing food depended on one deceptively simple piece of technology.
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live
The Marginalianby Maria Popova18 Aug 2026
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live By Maria Popova The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria — I suppose you could call it running away, though my...
Entropy, a deliciously miserable Final Fantasy-esque RPG where your party members can permanently die, is now out in early access
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Oisin Kuhnke18 Aug 2026
I was already aware of Entropy before Edwin called it a game that looked like a PS1 game fished from a toilet, primarily thanks to the stellar work developer Lovely Hellplace carried out in their...
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty
The Marginalianby Maria Popova18 Aug 2026
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty By Maria Popova It is strange how, in a universe governed by relentless change, human...
Brother and sister argue at a family reunion due to their opposite opinions on whether to homeschool or not their children and which one is better: 'I just simply told her that home educating doesn't mean her kids are happier than everybody else's'.
FAIL Blogby María Cetra18 Aug 2026
Brother and sister argue at a family reunion due to their opposite opinions on whether to homeschool or not their children and which one is better: 'I just simply told her that home educating...
Free for a Week! I Tried Selling My Body for Money—I Was Surprised By What I Found
Narrativelyby Jerry Portwood18 Aug 2026
This post has been receiving quite a bit of attention behind the scenes! To all the new subs who came here for it, welcome.
The Phone Scammers Next Door - Longreads
Longreadsby Krista Stevens18 Aug 2026
The house with the red-brick exterior, huge old-growth maple, and sprawling back patio on Castle Frank Crescent in Toronto’s pricy Rosedale neighborhood seemed like the perfect symbol of...