Island of the hornbills
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Random Digest: December 27, 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 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
In defense of slop
When costs fall, average quality does too
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.
Musk, Trump, Fuentes
Podcast with Robert Wright
Coffee Break: Trump Loses in Indiana as the MAGA Civil War Rages On
Last week, POTUS Donald Trump lost his battle to bully Indiana Republicans into redrawing their congressional districts, are we seeing Trump 2.0's mojo bleeding out as MAGA's civil war continues?
Weakening Migrants’ Rights in the Name of Fighting Racism
Keir Starmer wants to weaken the European Convention on Human Rights, hoping that this will win back voters from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. In the name of fighting right-wing politics, he’s handing mor
Can You Beat a Low Cost ETF?
The question every endowment and foundation should honestly ask themselves: “Can we beat a low-cost ETF?” The answer for nearly all of them is “No”. “We study nearly 375,000 nonprofit organizations, i
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
Greenland is closing in on three decades of continuous annual ice loss, with 1995-96 being... The post Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue
You must leave now, take what you need you think will last.
Raja Shehadeh Believes Israelis and Palestinians Can Still Find Peace
David Marchese in the New York Times: The writer, lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh, who is 74, has spent most of his life living in Ramallah, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Th