Why so many people are lapping up digital garbage
Algorithms and brain chemistry keep us stuck in loops until we get saturated with doomscrolling and fake news. There is a long-brewing malaise that has...
Data-mining the Global South into submission
The new colonial frontier isn’t restricted to mineral-rich Congo or oil-drenched Venezuela. It’s digital, invisible, and everywhere. From the shantytowns of Nairobi to the barrios...
How the Epstein saga exposed a system built on silence
Media, governments, and digital giants stay silent on elite child trafficking – even as the evidence piles up. In an age where every celebrity meltdown...
Is AI driving us all insane?
An emerging class of AI-induced distress is raising alarms. But are LLMs merely a trigger – or a mirror to our deeper societal breakdown? The...
From Torah to trauma: A Satanic child abuse scandal blows up in Israel
There’s a coordinated silencing of victims across religious and political hierarchies. There are crimes so profound that words fail to capture them. Last week, several...
AI hallucinations: a budding sentience or a global embarrassment?
An article cut and pasted from ChatGPT raises questions over the role of fact-checkers in legacy media. In a farcical yet telling blunder, multiple major...
Broken by design: Why the elites want everything and everyone to have an expiration date
Is planned obsolescence of products, services and talent part of a creative destruction process under the New Normal? “They don’t make them like they used...
Musk believes ‘ESG is the devil’ and he’s not the only one
The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda once had the staunch backing of billionaires, but now corporations are backtracking. In a June 10 Tweet, Elon...
In the battle for the ‘Global South’, an ancient evil rears its head
Modern Western powers are alarmed at the prospect of losing influence over countries regaining their historic power. There has been much chatter of late about...