Diplomat salary report – 2024

If your feeds seem a little off this week, it could be because hundreds of thousands of Aussies will soon go offline under Australia’s world-first social media ban for U16s. Why do this? Canberra says it’s about protecting children: whether it’s the WHO addictive use data or Jonathan Haidt’s best-selling book The Anxious Generation, there’s […]

It was a mild and uneventful Friday back on November 7th: the onsens were steaming, the maples were blazing, and the salarymen were scurrying. Japan was Japaning, until… New prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the Diet floor and answered a question with this: “If there is a Taiwan contingency where the Chinese side uses warships […]

Sometimes we find ourselves pondering why the Duolingo owl is so passive-aggressive. Other days we end up wondering what’s really going on with our world’s economy. Today falls into the second category for five reasons, starting with… That’s how many cars will get repossessed in the US this year, the most in recorded history (yes, […]

Thieves somehow just went full Ocean’s 11 with a brazen, broad-daylight heist at the world’s most-visited museum: the Louvre. These mysterious Clooneys seemingly pulled up in a truck, used its crane-ladder to reach a balcony, then pinched priceless Napoleonic crown jewels in just seven minutes. And that’s after last month’s $700k heist across the Seine […]