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Mikhail Klimentov

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  1. TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!

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  2. In the @washingtonpost.com: Business Insider removed 40 essays from suspicious writers. @aaronschaffer.com and I found key financial connections between two of the writers, including the already-notorious "Margaux Blanchard." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

    “Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.

    Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?

    “Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.

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  3. Took my bike to a new shop after basically a full year of bad creaking. 10 minutes after I walk out the guy calls me: huge crack in the frame. Apparently I biked across Iowa with a crack that ~4 other mechanics all missed 🙃

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  4. I wrote the case up for why I think Putin was serious and Xi wasn't here - foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/05/p...

    What a fixation with immortality says about two aging autocrats.

    Putin and Xi Have Different Plans to Live Forever

    What a fixation with immortality says about two aging autocrats.

    I have a piece coming up on this but this very much reads to me as Xi making avuncular small talk and Putin being serious - something borne out by the countries' very different research priorities and levels of politicalization in science

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