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🌍 This week's Coda Currents: China flexed its climate muscles at COP30; the U.S. tapped Nicki Minaj to hype a false “Christian genocide” in Nigeria; and Trump shrugged off Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to secure a massive Saudi deal.

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Anthropologist Dragana Kaurin put it plainly to Ellery Roberts Biddle: design is political. It encodes policy, bias, and exclusion — raising core questions about who decides, how they decide, and whether the process allows for change. buff.ly/IEJCojO

In Oliver Bullough’s Oligarchy this week: Meme coins have no intrinsic value, aren’t intended to have intrinsic value and yet they soar in price. Are we heading towards 1929-style financial ruin? Also: Drug money and Chinese laundries. Sign up here: buff.ly/nSG0KAw

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Dinosaur bones, lottery tickets & upside-down skyscrapers - Coda Story I am often rude about how utterly predictable financial criminals are in what they choose to buy – large watches, gold-spattered handbags, ugly yachts, etc – so I want to give a very small amount of c...

What do kleptocrats and money launderers do with their illicit cash, asks Oliver Bullough in this week’s Oligarchy newsletter. Just another supercar, or a yacht? How about a dinosaur skeleton or three?

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The Albanian town that TikTok emptied - Coda Story “It’s like the boys have gone extinct,” say women in Kukes. They’ve all left for London, chasing dreams of fast cars and easy money sold on social media

“The boys have gone extinct.”
In Kukës, Albania, TikTok glamorizes life in the U.K. while smugglers exploit the dream. Families split, streets fall silent, and an algorithm pushes a generation to leave.
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From Bolsonaro to Mamdani: the global delegitimization playbook becomes New York reality - Coda Story How the “Big Lie” came to New York City

Hours after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, a familiar pattern emerged: false claims questioning his legitimacy. It’s the same playbook seen from Trump to Bolsonaro to Netanyahu — casting doubt on democratic wins by alleging fraud.

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From mythology to machine learning, a history of artificial intelligence - Coda Story While artificial intelligence now powers smart cities, driverless cars and home appliances, ethical concerns about the technology have existed for centuries

From Greek myths of bronze giants to self-learning machines and smart cities, our fears about AI are centuries old.

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Amazon is cutting 30,000 jobs while expanding AI.
Goldman Sachs says 7% of US jobs could vanish.

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The Fire This Time: Can America Douse the Flames? - Coda Story The Civil War never ended. It just shape-shifted. In the midst of a bitterly divisive sociopolitical and cultural war, Americans must rebuild their burning house

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1/ Almost 25% of U.S. adults now use AI for therapy, many relying on ChatGPT. @irina_match describes how AI "therapy" both helped and hurt her during a breakup, examining why this $2B industry presents increasing dangers to at-risk users. buff.ly/Vc9gJn6

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