Random Digest: November 8, 2025
10 hand-picked articles from our collection
This digest was algorithmically curated to spark serendipity and encourage intellectual wandering. Each article was chosen at random from our recent collection, creating unexpected connections and delightful discoveries across diverse topics and perspectives.
Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Backyard caterpillars
From poison spikes to fake snake eyes, caterpillars employ many clever strategies to survive to their dazzling adulthoods - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Hogs at the AI Slop Trough, Gulf States, UFC Edition
Various hogs are lined up at the AI slop trough under the banner of Trump 2.0, including Elon Musk and various Gulf States.
Intellectual Violence
Andrei Kolesnikov in Public Seminar: In the age of mature Putinism, violence and control, accompanied by a new morality based on so-called “traditional values,” have become crucial instruments for man
How to tolerate annoying things
Hassles are part of life, but the way we react often makes them worse. ACT skills can help you handle them with greater ease - by Patricia E Zurita Ona Read on Psyche
Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Like Geometric Objects
Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental constraints on evolution. The post Shark Data Suggests Animals Scale Li
Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025)
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Publi
DeBriefed 7 November 2025: Belém COP begins; UN warns of 1.5C breach; changing roles of climate scientists
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 7 November 2025: Belém COP begins; UN warns of 1.5C breach; changing ro
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin
The Pacific Islands Challenge
In America’s tug of war with China, oceanic democracy is caught in the middle.