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Media Diet Q1 2026
WWI Trenches, WWII Bombers, Columbus, Magellan, Nukes
Apr 5 • Jordan Schneider
F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812
Second Breakfast
Apr 3 • Jordan Schneider
China's AI Education Experiment
Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children’s artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures, and screen them for…
Apr 3 • Lily Ottinger
Unitree Goes Public
robotics diffusion, AGI for the real world, and US-China entanglement
Apr 2 • Irene Zhang
China on AI Job Loss: “No ‘Matrix’ for us, thanks.”
“We’re a people’s republic after all.”
Apr 1

March 2026

Why Geothermal Failed in China
And is there still potential?
Mar 31 • Lily Ottinger
Civil Service: A History!
What can we learn from its past glories and failures, and where should we take this next?
Mar 31 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
How China Hopes to Build AGI Through Self-Improvement
Without looking like it
Mar 30 • Zilan Qian
Jen Pahlka
State Capacity for the AI Era
Mar 27 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
Fusion's DeepSeek Moment?
China's hottest fusion founder talks
Mar 26 • Caleb Harding
Chinese Titanium
A secret mine, PLA Modernization, and a whole lot of overcapacity
Mar 24 • Irene Zhang
Claude Just Opened the Strait
the definitive tick-tock
Mar 22 • Jordan Schneider
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