"Perhaps Google can only be destroyed." – bold statement, but has Google become too much of a beast that it has to go the way of the fatted calf? Is reform possible?
Variants are diabolical to keep up with, but what keeps me up at night is stuff coming out of the permafrost. Really.
I'm not convinced autocracy was "the early alternative to democracy", but Stasavage makes an intriguing case for democracy being far more rooted in human history than we might care to realise. He's also quite right that the Chinese venerated learning and the attainment of a government post!
On the topic of China, this documentary on Huawei by a Japanese filmmaker living in Nanking, married to a Chinese woman, narrating it in Japanese and conducting the interviews in Mandarin… rather mind boggling and eye opening, especially the way their finance department is digitalised. Also, who knew Huawei had such a thing for Tang architecture? 虛驚一場, as we say in Chinese (it’s hard to translate Chinese idioms, but it’s something like “there was never anything to be terrified of in the first place”).
Longest read of the week, but what a read. I appreciate that the writer gives the kink aspect of the whole sordid Armie Hammer saga a fair shake.
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