Funny line in the translator’s note of this edition of The Satyricon: “It is, of course, an easy matter to ensure that the verse is bad where the Latin verse was intended to be bad.”

Not a fan of this thing where people who favor a massive US military footprint are using Trump's nonsense to try and invalidate those of us who are like "hey maybe we could have a better international system"

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Interesting that hawks also seem concerned about Colby's approach - they apparently think that an emphasis on tactical nuclear weapons "risk[s] a decline in military preparedness for scenarios in which the president might opt to use long-range strategic weapons." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say

The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.

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Some great Yonhap art today en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

Glad to see this criticism of the US ban on citizen travel to North Korea - King served as special envoy for North Korean human rights from 2009-2017 en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

Former U.S. envoy urges U.S. to ease N.K. travel ban, citing its impact on aid workers | Yonhap News Agency

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- A former U.S. envoy for North Korean hum...

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"I know that a lot of people are very anxious about 2027, what it would mean and so forth. But I don’t think that’s the way to think about it. It goes without saying that, [10 years on] in 2037, China will be much, much stronger." www.scmp.com/news/china/m...

Open Questions | ‘Surprising’ how fast China’s military is closing US gap: analyst Lyle Goldstein

Beijing’s challenge is to resist temptation to build the PLA into a ‘hammer looking for a nail’, former US Naval War College professor says.

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I don't remember this part of the gospels meduza.io/amp/en/news/...

"At the very least, such a dialogue may encourage would-be proliferators to recognize that easy answers to complex questions may not be in their long-term security interests." thediplomat.com/2026/08/its-...

It’s Time for the East Asia Summit to Tackle Nuclear Proliferation

As more countries consider acquiring nuclear weapons, the EAS should take the lead in addressing the growing challenges of proliferation.

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As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about

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Data collection: completely fine as the basis of the domestic tech industry, super scary when China does it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

No - next question

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Was Ancient Greece Capitalist? The Truth About Its Economy - GreekReporter.com greekreporter.com/2026/08/04/w....

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Now America has confirmed itself as a force of disorder and everyone is drawing lessons from it, and trying to be less dependent. No one wants to be subject to a whipsaw foreign policy that doesn’t know its limits, and that is a strategic defeat.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...

In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear

With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

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"The approach – reminiscent of the 1998 disaster film Armageddon but carried out entirely by uncrewed spacecraft – had lower technical complexity and better defence effectiveness than simply slamming a bomb into the asteroid, the researchers argued." www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid

China’s two-pronged method could blast apart an Earth-threatening space rock using a 3-megaton explosion equivalent to 200 Hiroshima bombs.

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People should study the 1996-1997 changeover because it is *stark* bsky.app/profile/bubb...

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this is actually a great counterexample to the "you only think music from when you were a teen was better because you were a teen" conventional wisdom when the music went from being impeccable to terrible in just 12 months

IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG’s narrative about the Vietnam War is almost uncontroversial from the standpoint of 2026 - but it was definitely not received that way in 1968.

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Deeply offended as a middle aged Epicurean

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Asahi Shimbun: "The international trust that Japan has built up in the postwar era by calling for the elimination and reduction of nuclear weapons under a non-nuclear policy must not be eroded." www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

EDITORIAL: Koizumi sets stage for review of non-nuclear principles | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has repeatedly touched upon the need for discussions related to nuclear weapons.

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"If the Trump administration submits this so-called deal for the required Congressional review, we will take all available steps...to reject any deal that fails to include the safeguards necessary to prevent Saudi Arabia from developing nuclear weapons.” garamendi.house.gov/2026/07/29/g...

North Korea's exports were up 30% last year as its post-pandemic recovery continues - still a lot lower than 2017 though en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

N. Korea's exports hit 8-year high in 2025: data | Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's exports rose sharply to an eight-year high i...

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Oh wow - in a message ostensibly commemorating the Korean War armistice, Trump said that the "same communist ambition that once sought to conquer the Korean Peninsula is trying to rear its ugly head once more - this time in the West." en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...

Trump says S. Korea, U.S. remain 'united' in 'steadfast' alliance in armistice anniv. message | Yonhap News Agency

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, July 28 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has said Sou...

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"An order in which Asian countries assume greater responsibility for their own defense and rely more on one another — and less on an increasingly distracted United States — could ultimately prove stable and secure. At any rate, it is unavoidable." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...

Opinion | A New Security Order Is Taking Shape in Asia

Asian countries are starting to shoulder more of the burden of their own defense, and the region could be stronger and more stable for it.

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