The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.

Important #LongRead about AI: The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy

Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized (Gift Article) Fake windows and a stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

Cadeau 🎁- un #longread d’architecture sur la future salle de bal de la maison blanche. C’est super interessant et bien sûr, elle est très mal conçue d’un point de vue architectural. Tout ce que touche Trump …

#Longread The US coup: one year on open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Prepping for a disaster? You’ll probably want to pack a little treat. It’s not just sardines and dried beans. Self-identified preppers are also stashing luxuries like coffee and chocolate.

Weekend #longread: Prepping for a disaster? You’ll probably want to pack a little treat | @fridagarza.bsky.social grist.org/culture/prep...

#Longread How to Organize a Real General Strike in the US
jacobin.com/2026/02/ice-...

#Longread How Palantir infiltrated the state www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

#Longread Southern Ontario prairies need fire to flourish, and a place to grow: thenarwhal.ca/alderville-b...

#Longread Grace Blakeley: Divestment Works.
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preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

code: github.com/zhengxinchan...

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #LongRead #RNAseq #population_scale #Isoform

Is Cuba Next? Trump’s campaign to topple foreign adversaries encounters a battered but defiant regime.

Mal wieder so ein #longread, den es nur im #NewYorker gibt (€): Is Cuba Next? www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/is-c...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying | Iran | The Guardian #LongRead
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

#Longread The US Is Losing the War In Iran. The Corporate Media Won't Tell You That. open.substack.com/pub/stevendo...

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

James Vincent #longread for Harper’s on the slow evolution of humanoid robots amid its own hype machine. It’s all a bit complicated emulating us complex humans, but the robotics industry believes we must. harpers.org/archive/2025...

George Kent: There isn't a single NATO country with a military that can fight the way Ukraine does Crimea, NATO and talks with Russia. Main statements from George Kent.

#interview #longread

💬 George Kent: "There isn't a single #NATO country with a military that can fight the way #Ukraine does."

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#Longread The Metropole: Closer to a prison than a holiday for asylum seekers
blackpool.thelead.uk/p/the-metrop...

See how Novogene used long-read sequencing & hybrid assembly to build high-quality reference genomes in polyploid & large plant species (e.g. chrysanthemum, Torreya). Learn methods & breakthroughs. #PlantGenomics #LongRead #GenomeAssembly https://tinyurl.com/3yzjaef6

#Longread The US coup: one year on open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

#Longread How to Organize a Real General Strike in the US
jacobin.com/2026/02/ice-...

Your weekend #longread is here: An up-close look at the countries holding the line against Russian aggression.

If Putin is pushing the world towards World War 3, these nations are pushing back.

Stunning photography and sharp analysis. Learn something new this weekend: border-line-war.longlead.com

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116252718575821512

Úžasná pozitivní sci-fi povídka. Kromě toho bych tu práci uměl asi dělat. #ai #longread
witter.cz/@hn100@social.lansky.nam...

Hearing Sounds Through the Eyes, by Jisu Sunim Sometimes people feel afraid because they don’t know what the teacher is talking about! `How we can face our own reality?’ But the teacher also has difficulty in getting the studentR…

Buddhist practice: Zen koan practice: 'Hearing Sounds Through the Eyes', by Jisu Sunim
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#Longread Grace Blakeley: Divestment Works.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

#Longread Treasury Criticised by Leading Labour MP for ‘Short-Sighted’ Refusal to Back Rainforest Fund at COP30 www.bylinesupplement.com/p/treasury-c...

#Longread The US Is Losing the War In Iran. The Corporate Media Won't Tell You That. open.substack.com/pub/stevendo...

#Longread Weapons of Willpower: Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Trump's Gaza Plan www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-pale...

« Black, blanc, beur » (Libre Antenne, 2026) Quand j’ai vu apparaître le documentaire Libre Antenne sur France 4, j’ai replongé dans mes souvenirs de collège comme le proposent de leur côté, les deux réalisateurs Jérémy Michalak et Abel Mestr…

"Black, Blanc, Beur"
> critique du documentaire Libre Antenne réalisé par Frédérick Michalak et Abel Mestre sur la libre antenne de Fun Radio et Skyrock par une personne non blanche
sansculturepasdefutur.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/b... #longread

What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government | Elon Musk | The Guardian #LongRead www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#Longread October 7, Al-Aqsa Flood: Today's Palestinian revolution resisting two years of genocide and the urgent tasks of our movement samidoun.net/2025/10/octo...

The Roman Empire had armies. It had infrastructure. It had resources. And it still fell apart. The thing it had lost — the thing that actually mattered — was legitimacy. The widespread belief that the system was worth defending. Max Weber spent his career on this question: why do people obey authority? His answer wasn't force. It was belief. When that belief dissolves, coercion can't replace it. This dynamic — the collapse of legitimacy before the collapse of institutions — is one of the most important patterns in all of political history. And it's one of the central arguments in our new long-form essay. Link in bio. #legitimacy #civilization #history #politicalphilosophy #MaxWeber #Rome #powerandjustice #historymatters #civilizationaltheory #systemsthinking #deepread #intellectualhistory #globalaffairs #politicaltheory #longformessay #essaywriting #historybuff #sociology

What actually holds a civilization together?

Not armies. Not economies. Something far more fragile and more powerful.

A long essay on the invisible architecture beneath human societies.

thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-archit...

#Civilization #Geopolitics #LongRead

#Longread How Palantir infiltrated the state www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...