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China’s ultra-rich are finding themselves under greater scrutiny as new tax rules on offshore trusts raise questions over their fortunes amp-scmp-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.scmp...
How China’s new offshore trust tax rules could shake billionaires’ fortunes
Soho China founder Pan Shiyi’s Cayman trust faces scrutiny as Beijing’s tax overhaul puts offshore wealth strategies in focus
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Does Aaron Rodgers—with his mind altered by retreats or from hitting the turf a few too many time—have anything of value to contribute outside of football? thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill....
Aaron Rodgers: Fauci a ‘coward’ and a ‘criminal’ for taking the Fifth
On Monday, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers launched into tirade against Dr. Anthony Fauci over the infectious disease expert’s decision not to answer questions during last week&…
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If puny Putin can do it, why the mighty China should be behind ? theconversation.com/china-is-cla...
China is claiming the right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth
China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.
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What Should We Take From Andrey Melnichenko’s Essay in the Economist?
Andrey Melnichenko’s essay offers no answer to the fundamental question of how, under any kind of negotiated settlement, Europe can protect itself from the Russian ressentiment that is inevitable in a...
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Thirty-five years of consumption across billions of people has produced no credible evidence of harm from fermentation-derived chymosin, and the switch has spared an enormous number of animals. siliconcanals.com/sc-v-roughly...
Roughly 80% of the cheese in the US and other major markets is now made with an enzyme produced by genetically modified microbes, not from calf stomachs — and most shoppers have no idea - Silicon Cana...
Since 1990, most of the world's cheese has been made with chymosin produced by genetically modified microbes in industrial fermentation tanks — not traditional calf rennet. The switch was legal, unlab...
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Document divides AI harm into two categories. One category is treated as exceptional and therefore deserving of a new regulatory institution. The other is presented as familiar enough to remain largely within the legal and regulatory system that already exists. www.techpolicy.press/googles-ai-g...
Google's AI Governance Plan Draws the Boundaries of What Counts as Harm
Google seeks to shape regulation by deciding which harms deserve special attention and which appear familiar, writes Gregory Gondwe.
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Resist the technocrats Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them aeon.co/essays/are-w...
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Besides the fires in Greece, France and Spain look at drought in rest of EU. Severe power grid failures, massive commercial shipping bottlenecks, and major tourism disruptions are actively impacting Europe as a historic drought drives the Danube and Rhine rivers to record-low levels.
Philadelphia Police Department said it does not have departmentwide, “validated” statistics on how often the technology has led directly to arrests, the recovery of stolen vehicles, the discovery of missing people or the solution of violent crimes. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...
Special Report: Philadelphia scanned 25 million license plates, but can’t say whether the investigative tool works
Twenty-five million. That’s the number of license plates scanned so far by Philadelphia’s expanding network of automated license plate readers (ALPR) after about 100 fixed cameras started operating in...
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Punchline: what once required 20 million qubits now requires fewer than one million for RSA, potentially fewer than 100k under newer architectures, and fewer than 500k for the elliptic curve cryptography that protects every major cryptocurrency thequantuminsider.com/2026/03/31/q...
Q-Day Just Got Closer: Three Papers in Three Months Are Rewriting the Quantum Threat Timeline
The quantum resources needed to break modern encryption have dropped by an order of magnitude since May 2025.
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America’s retirement nightmare has arrived
Economic insecurity and the rise of artificial intelligence are dismantling the traditional American Dream of retirement, leaving many older adults facing a lifetime of continuous labor.
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Hard work isn’t enough to achieve the American Dream anymore, says Wharton professor. Welcome to the ‘Great Postponement’
“The question is whether ... policies can evolve quickly enough to ensure that achieving the American Dream depends once again on opportunity and hard work rather than circumstances of one’s birth.”
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Elaine I see dead people, all the time Like right now, there's presidential reunion happening here
Volgograd formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad Get your N95 out before going outside.
DJT and his RNC clowns have perfected flooding the zone with fire hose of daily sewage. This communication tactic is designed to overwhelm the media and public opposition by generating a rapid, continuous stream of controversial statements, policy proposals, and political stunts.
Let's revisit this article to reinforce our commitment. philosophersmag.com/assholes-a-t...
Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump - The Philosophers' Magazine
Matthew Meyer on a book that charts the rise of the American asshole.
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