Yearn and burn
In just a decade, China has amassed the world's largest coast guard fleet, and its patrol vessels often resemble warships. / The New York Times [+]
With elections looming, "China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat." / The Economist
With elections scheduled in Poland and Slovakia, the EU says that X, formerly known as Twitter, is the world's biggest source of disinformation. / ABC News
See also: A data-driven overview of populist, far-left and far-right parties in Europe from 1989 until 2022. / The PopuList
Amazon chose a site for its new Cape Town headquarters that is so historically significant, "it is not an exaggeration to call it ground zero for colonial dispossession in Southern Africa." / Africa Is a Country
The year after the Black Lives Matter protests, companies in the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs, and 94% of them went to people of color. / Bloomberg
Forty percent of all cases of American book-banning between July 2022 and June 2023 occurred in Florida. / PEN America
Temperature spikes lead to a marked increase in the number of hospital visits for alcohol-related disorders in New York. / Communications Medicine
In foodie circles, the egg is the poster child for all-natural foods—but orange yolks are mostly about aesthetics, not quality or flavor. / Eater
A diary details a search for a complete set of Virginia Woolf's diaries. / The Paris Review
"Classical has the capacity to just float you elsewhere." Making the (basic) argument that classical music is underrated for your workout soundtrack. / InsideHook
Researchers find that crows can perform statistical reasoning. / Arstechnica
Unrelated: "Rat girl summer has endeth, so cometh yearn girl fall." / i-D
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