A single Bitcoin transaction eats up the same amount of energy as the average US household over a two and a half month, period.

Democracy in the Global Interregnum – Devaka Gunawardena

South Korea Will See a Massive Labor Uprising on January 15

Increased competition strengthens capitalists as a class while, at the same time, further fragmenting worker solidarity

Blockchain technologies have somehow managed to land in the worst of both worlds—decentralized but not really, immutable but not really

What Should the Left Do About China? - The Nation

Here’s Why Portuguese Sounds like Russian

Signal Developer Moxie Marlinspike (of Signal) on why NFTs don’t deliver what they promise

“What is happening in northwest China is connected to camps at the southern border of the United States, digital control in Kashmir, and checkpoints in the West Bank“

A Color Revolution or a Working-Class Uprising?: an Interview with Aynur Kurmanov on the Protests in Kazakhstan

‘Everyone asks about Novak’ but Mehdi has languished for nine years in Australian immigration detention

Boosted? Got Omicron? You Still Might Not Be ‘Super’ Immune - The Atlantic

Unrecognised Indigenous Groups of Taiwan and their Struggle for Language Revival – Taiwan Insight

Unpacking the Colonialist Undertones of the Indigenous People’s Basic Law: Law as a Tool of Oppression in Taiwan – Taiwan Insight

The Myth of the Classically Educated Elite

By limiting the virus’s access to human airways, masks can set vaccinated immune systems up for success. And they help protect vulnerable people in the vicinity…

America Quits the Fight Against Covid

Thousands of Afghans have applied for humanitarian parole in US

Lest We Forget: The Missing Chinese Activists of 2021

Afghanistan’s Aid Infrastructure Is Unraveling

India Cities Ban Eggs, Drawing a Backlash (I was a regular customer of the egg vendor in Chharanagar when we were shooting our film)

Nordic Social Democracy Is Good for Everybody Except the Rich

What Dostoevsky knew about evil

This Terrible Book Shows Why the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Won’t Die

Farm laws: India farmers end protest after government accepts demands (One of the biggest, longest, and most important protests in world history but still largely unknown and ignored outside India.)