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Hemad Nazari hasn't been home to Iran in 8 years. In January, he waited 8 days to find out if his family was alive. This is what exile looks like in 2026. buff.ly/jNGkdzg

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Tech's biggest prophets are building a future — bunkers, brain chips, digital gods, corporate states — and they didn't ask you. The question isn't if their visions come true. It's whether we'll let them build our future without us. buff.ly/ZWkZb9o

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What if we reimagined our world without placing humans at its center? Could an AI-run planet actually be better for Earth? Adam Kirsch sits down with Coda's Isobel Cockerell to explore what a future beyond humanity might look like. buff.ly/9Fb1D0V

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Viktor Orbán has just been voted out after 16 years in power. John Shattuck, former CEU president, wrote the definitive guide to the authoritarian playbook Orbán perfected and Trump has been copying. Resistance, it turns out, can work. buff.ly/nG0gRp6

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Ethnonationalist identitarian settlements, racially homogeneous, heterosexual, and self-sufficient, have their roots in Anastasianism, a movement born from the fanbase of Vladimir Megre's 1990s fantasy series, The Ringing Cedars. Read about its revival: buff.ly/QmD7ydl

Italy imports nuclear power from France while banning it at home. Why did Chernobyl leave such a deep scar on the Italian psyche — and is the country ready to confront it now? buff.ly/GlzDQxq

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Russia bombed Mariupol's maternity ward. They'd spent weeks planting the alibi. That's not fog of war. That's a strategy. And it may be prosecutable. Explore The Alibi Machine: buff.ly/lKjNJQn

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1/ Nearly 1/4 of U.S. adults now turn to AI for therapy, many using ChatGPT. Irina Matchavariani shares how using AI as a “therapist” helped, then harmed her, during her break-up, and explores why this $2B industry poses growing risks to vulnerable users. buff.ly/jj40yyq

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1/ When the US and Israel struck Iran, AI selected 2,000+ targets in 24 hours. One of the first buildings destroyed was a girls' school. 165 killed, mostly children aged 7-12. Trump called it proof wars can now be fought "forever, and very successfully." buff.ly/RY2blRV