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"Its authors — some of the world’s best intelligence-gatherers, who contributed thousands of their own photos — kept the curated database updated and online for public use at no charge."
Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

Farewell to the CIA World Factbook, a reference manual now gone under Trump
The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries. The end came on Feb. 4 in a “fond farewell” post from the spy agency. The CIA says the decision reflects an agency whose core mission has changed over the years. Factbook fans say they'll miss the trusted reference point that had its origins in World War II-era intelligence work. It went public in 1975 and bec…

Measuring a world rate of profit -again – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/measuring-a-world-rate-of-profit-again/

Measuring a world rate of profit -again
Back in 2012, I made an initial attempt to go beyond measuring the rate of profit on capital in any one country and calculate a world rate of profit. Then, I argued that it was important to test Ma…

China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/world/a

China Built the World’s Drone Industry. Now It’s Locking Down the Skies.
The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users say the changes are now restricting too many flights.

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/tropical-forest-loss-falls-in-2025-but-world-still-off-track-on-deforestation-goals/

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals
JAKARTA — Tropical primary forest loss fell sharply in 2025, dropping 36% from the record highs of the previous year, according to new data from a long-running satellite monitoring project. Non-fire forest loss also declined by 23%, reaching its lowest level in a decade, according to the data from the University of Maryland’s Global Land […]

„FIFA World Cup“: Erstes FIFA-Spiel nach EA-Aus kommt von Netflix
Das erste FIFA-Spiel seit dem Bruch mit EA heißt „FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition“ und läuft auf Netflix. FIFA-Präsident Infantino schwärmt in höchsten Tönen.

„FIFA World Cup“: Erstes FIFA-Spiel nach EA-Aus kommt von Netflix
Das erste FIFA-Spiel seit dem Bruch mit EA heißt „FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition“ und läuft auf Netflix. FIFA-Präsident Infantino schwärmt in höchsten Tönen.

A look at the World Cup plans of The Guardian and NYT's The Athletic, including dedicated newsletters, and the single-issue independent magazine Golden Goal (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/newsl…

Newsletters, live coverage, a one-time magazine: The World Cup is becoming a testbed for journalism experiments
"It's one of those huge, gigantic things that sort of go beyond sports. It's like a life-measurement mechanism."

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What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan…...
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What the Lemmings Could Not Do: On Suicide, Cognition, and the Mortal Imagination | David Boles, Blogs
Of all the acts a human being can perform, suicide is the strangest. It requires the actor to picture a world without itself, judge that world preferable, and execute a plan whose author will not s…

#Demokratie die sich vor der Gewalt anderer Staaten verteidigen muss, will sie weiterhin Gewalt über ihre eigene Bürger haben, muss auch #Gewalt über ihre eigenen Bürger haben, damit sie Gewalt gegen andere Staaten einsetzen kann.

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-e…

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.