James Griffiths
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🇨🇦 Asia correspondent, @theglobeandmail.com
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📚 Author, ‘The Great Firewall of China’ and ‘Speak Not’
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That article is fascinating though: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
The curious life of a clever slime mold
In its quest to feed, avoid nasty substances and just generally live its life, the brainless, one-celled Physarum polycephalum performs some impressive tricks of learning and memory
knowablemagazine.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
That article is fascinating though: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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Plus, no one look at actual evidence, just keep listening to the hype-driven narratives of the tech industry and treat them as though they’re factual and reliable!
February 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Plus, no one look at actual evidence, just keep listening to the hype-driven narratives of the tech industry and treat them as though they’re factual and reliable!
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The risk isn’t the technology. The risk is in people who should know better getting whipped up in the hype and helping normalize tech’s narratives so we don’t pay attention to (and rein in) what they’re actually doing in the present.
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The risk isn’t the technology. The risk is in people who should know better getting whipped up in the hype and helping normalize tech’s narratives so we don’t pay attention to (and rein in) what they’re actually doing in the present.
While it's understandable some fear the loss of figures like Gen. Zhang Youxia removes a voice of caution and makes a war over Taiwan more likely, it's hard to look at a graphic like this and think the PLA is remotely ready for such an operation.
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
While it's understandable some fear the loss of figures like Gen. Zhang Youxia removes a voice of caution and makes a war over Taiwan more likely, it's hard to look at a graphic like this and think the PLA is remotely ready for such an operation.
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it is currently eating itself alive with internal paranoia and denunciations because it is being subject to a rolling purge that likely has very little to do with military modernization and everything to do with corruption networks, and which - since it seems to have turned around personnel issues
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 AM
it is currently eating itself alive with internal paranoia and denunciations because it is being subject to a rolling purge that likely has very little to do with military modernization and everything to do with corruption networks, and which - since it seems to have turned around personnel issues