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Midweek greetings to all, as we unveil the 239th chapter of Weekly Olio—a delightful concoction of laughter, insight, and a sprinkle of mystery. Within these pages, you'll discover a handpicked selection of fascinating finds from the vast realms of the internet.
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The Quote 💭
“People with very high expectations have very low resilience.”
The Tweet 🐦
India just relaxed its FDI regulations for countries with land borders (indirectly China!) and the X is simply on fire with its analysis.
The Infographic 💹
Mind-blowing chart of the week here. Southern Europe has, for perhaps the first time in modern history, a lower headline unemployment rate than Northern Europe.
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The Short Read 📝
Decoding the Money Trust: The Secret War for American Sovereignty - by Navroop Singh
Navroop Singh is an Advocate, who is a third-generation Intellectual Property Attorney based in New Delhi, India is an avid reader with keen interests in foreign affairs and geopolitics.
As the American dollar loses value and power moves to the East, the financial elite might push the world into another long and damaging conflict. Their goal would be to create a new global money system after both sides have weakened each other, allowing these elites to come out on top. Read more…
The Long Read 📜
Child’s Play - by Sam Kriss
In "Child's Play," Sam Kriss argues that Silicon Valley has replaced its old worship of intelligence and technical skill with a new cult of "agency" — the raw, compulsive drive to act without hesitation. As AI renders human expertise increasingly redundant, the tech world believes society is splitting into a tiny agentic overclass and a vast, disposable underclass. Kriss profiles figures who embody this shift: Roy Lee, the Columbia dropout whose startup Cluely sells a barely functional AI cheating tool, built not on engineering merit but on viral provocation; teen entrepreneur Eric Zhu, who cheerfully admits anyone could have done what he did; and online trickster Donald Boat, who extracted gifts from tech moguls through sheer audacity, distilling the entire VC economy into a joke.
What unites them is that none are rewarded for making anything useful — only for relentlessly demanding attention. The article's deeper point is that "agency" without purpose is hollow: Lee's frantic self-promotion masks a lonely young man with no destination beyond avoiding isolation, and a culture that elevates this as its highest virtue has stopped valuing thought, beauty, and meaning altogether. The result, Kriss suggests, is not liberation but a new kind of mindlessness — people who never have to think again, and eventually can't. Read more…
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