Time 03.September 2026

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Perhaps the most interesting question about artificial intelligence today is not what it can do, but how those in power intend to govern a system that is gradually beginning to make decisions in place of the people they appointed to make them. That last point deserves closer attention. For the problem of AI ultimately has […]

Yuri Chekalin01.09.2026
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The rain had not stopped in Tokyo for four days. It did not fall in sheets. It simply hung in the air—a fine, sticky mist that blurred the neon signs of Shibuya and turned pedestrians beneath transparent umbrellas into slow-moving, sexless half-ghosts. In weather like this, the city lost its depth. It became flat, like […]

Yuri Chekalin30.08.2026
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Of all the languages I know, the Japanese word baishun—meaning prostitution—seems to me among the most evocative. There is something strangely melancholy and gentle in its sound, an echo of the feeling that sometimes overtakes us on a rainy day, when the damp scent of the earth makes us pause and think about eternal questions. […]

Yuri Chekalin28.08.2026
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In summer Tokyo, the heat never falls from the sky. It rises from below—from the sun-baked asphalt, the blank concrete walls, the metal shells of vending machines. That evening, the air was thick and heavy. It seemed to drift reluctantly from one dark alley to another. I was walking through Nakano without any particular destination […]

Yuri Chekalin22.08.2026
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The first thing I did in Tokyo was get lost. The labyrinth of Shinjuku Station swallowed me whole, the moment the train doors slid open with a soft, quiet sigh of sympathy. A massive river of people lifts you up and carries you through subterranean passageways, illuminated by endless billboards. You dissolve into this current […]

Robert Reich21.08.2026
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Trump says he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” military drills with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un” — whom he calls “unthreatening and respectful.” Kim Jong Un is unthreatening and respectful? Hello? Trump also says he’s miffed at South Korea for refusing to help […]


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