Japan Shrinking, Fleeing China, Starship
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Apr 21, 2023
Incredible Shrinking Japan (WSJ Ed Board)
Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000? (NYT)
Elon Musk tells Tucker potential dangers of hyper-intelligent AI (Fox)
People Are Using AI for Therapy, Even Though ChatGPT Wasn’t Built for It (Bloomberg)
Determined to Flee China, Thousands Take a Long, Dangerous Route to the Southern U.S. Border (WSJ)
Why aren't we taking every Chinese refugee we can? (Noahpinion)
Climate deniers and climate doomers are more alike than they’d like to think (Hannah Ritchie)
SpaceX’s 1st Starship launches on epic test flight, explodes in ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly (Space.com)
Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness (After Babel)
Hans Zimmer, the Film Composer Using Music to Manipulate Your Emotions (The Profile)
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