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[Leo Tolstoy Literature @LeoTollstoy]

“The wicked grow bold as they are tolerated.”

Tolstoy

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Cold weather.. 😅

[This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22_Minutes]

That was so fast!

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The vocabulary of vulnerability – 10 wonderfully untranslatable words from around the world to hold our most complex and difficult emotions https://t.co/uIcgpRZAAW

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

Kaoru Yamada

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Beach Point Twilight

John Dowd. , 2026.

American , b. 1960

Oil on linen

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Juan Brufal

[Leo Tolstoy Literature @LeoTollstoy]

“The wicked grow bold as they are tolerated.”

Tolstoy

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

A ruthless world presents one of morality’s hardest questions: why remain just when dishonesty brings money, status, and power?

In The Republic, Glaucon’s Ring of Gyges asks whether anyone would remain good if they could act without being seen or punished.

Plato accepts the unsettling fact that injustice sometimes succeeds in public, but argues that every corrupt victory changes the person who achieves it.

The tyrant may rule a city, yet appetite, suspicion, and fear rule him.

Justice matters because it allows you to retain command of yourself, even when integrity carries a real cost.

Read the full article at https://t.co/xl1BOrNVzS.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

euphemism = polite term for an impolite thing

dysphemism = impolite term for a polite thing

[cow @cowincrisis]

when i said i wanted to be a movie star that’s not what i had in mind…

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

How to be an instrument of kindness in a harsh world – George Saunders on unthinking the mind, unstorying the self, and the 3 antidotes to your suffering https://t.co/DUCgC3JHbu

[Tree @treeincrisis]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH Y'ALL??? THIS IS SO HUMILIATING. SEE YOU IN COURT!

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

I have been afraid they would use debt to force young people to fight the Iran War. I was asked years ago in an interview what I feared, and I said that, and emphasized that I had no evidence but that “it seems like something they’ll do, given the youth debt crisis.” Now it may be happening. Folks, stick together — no war. No draft. No debt exploitation. I don’t care who you voted for. Let’s not leave our US young folks alone should this monstrosity come to pass.

[Jennifer Wu @JWUpacific]

A Taiwanese engineer thought he'd landed a dream job at an American AI-chip startup. His coworkers were all in Nanjing. His paychecks came from Beijing.

He never met a single American colleague. Every meeting, every line of code, every chip design went straight to a China-based team. Taiwan raided the company in 2021. It wasn't American at all, a Chinese firm hiding behind a nearly identical name and a fake ownership structure.

That's one case out of 166. Exclusive government data given to Rest of World shows Taiwan has investigated 166 companies over six years for hiding Chinese ties while poaching chip talent, plus 67 separate trade-secret theft cases. Xiaomi. SMIC, China's top chip foundry, registered as a Samoan company to get in. OnePlus's founder has an active arrest warrant for the same scheme.

The playbook repeats: pay Taiwanese engineers up to 10 times local salary, register as a foreign entity to dodge Taiwan's investment law, deny everything if caught.

https://t.co/D1XVhOIyzi

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

One of the biggest landslides in known history happened underwater, in Europe.

Around 8,150 years ago, a vast section of the Norwegian seabed collapsed, shifting thousands of cubic kilometres of sediment and sending a gigantic tsunami into Scotland, Shetland and Norway.

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A pelican, around 37 years old, shows up every day at a Greek restaurant to get its portion of fish. The bird has become a well-known local figure along the seafront.