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Random Digest: December 20, 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, December 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Why is South Korean fertility so low?
Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them. The rest of the world can learn from Korea’s catastrophe to avoid the same fate.
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.
Paint the Town Red
Jacobin contributor Paul Heideman’s reading list on municipal socialism explores how workers’ movements, from Milwaukee to Liverpool, built power at the local level — and how they were defeated. So
The core misconception that is driving American AI policy
Why is President Trump, a man who barely knows how to use a laptop, taking such a big risk ramming through an AI policy that almost nobody, even in his own party, wants?
Putting the U in quantum
Zack Savitsky in Science Magazine: Standing in a garden on the remote German island of Helgoland one day in June, two theoretical physicists quibble over who—or what—constructs reality. Carlo Rovelli,
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake - by Conor Purcell Read on Aeon
Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably pour décourager les autres.
The Price of Borrow
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IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies
China’s coal demand is set to drop by 2027, more than cancelling out the effects... The post IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies appeared first on Carbon Brie