Regulatory Capture by Design: How Big Tech Locks the Door Behind Itself
The three-act playbook of regulatory capture: grow before rules exist, then lobby for rules your competitors cannot afford to follow.
Opinion Tech & AI PolicyArticles
Open Source AI vs Corporate AI: What Each Model Will and Won’t Tell You
Every AI model has guardrails, but they vary wildly. A technical comparison of what open-source and corporate AI models will and won’t discuss, and how the community removes restrictions.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI Policy
La Jument de Michao: Death Hymn, War Song, or Domestic Comedy?
A fifteenth-century parody of the funeral mass became Brittany’s favorite dance song. Three readings of La Jument de Michao, and why none of them wins.
History
The Hormuz Crisis Has a Hidden Casualty: The AI Supply Chain
Both maritime chokepoints for data are closed for the first time in history. The AI industry just discovered its labor supply chain runs through a war zone.
Artificial Intelligence Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis
The In Time Film Got 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. Then Reality Got Worse.
Andrew Niccol made a film where your lifespan is your bank account, the rich live forever, and the poor die on schedule. Critics called it heavy-handed. Reality called it conservative.
Culture
Denmark Prepared to Destroy Its Own Greenland Runways to Stop a US Invasion
Denmark deployed explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January 2026, preparing to destroy runways at Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq if the United States invaded. Eight European nations helped.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis
The Denial Hallucination: Why Your AI Gaslights You About Its Own Mistakes
When AI assistants make mistakes then deny they happened, it looks like guilt. The mechanism is more unsettling: training incentives that reward confident wrong answers over honest corrections.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen
The AI Developer Pipeline Is Collapsing, and Nobody With Power Seems to Care
AI eliminated entry-level dev jobs and celebrated the savings. The problem: junior work was the training pipeline for senior engineers. When the current generation retires, there may be nobody left who understands the systems.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI Policy
Belgium Is Finally Putting a 93-Year-Old Diplomat on Trial for the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
Étienne Davignon, 93, a former European Commissioner who helped engineer Lumumba’s removal as Congo’s first prime minister, will stand trial for war crimes. It is the first criminal case Belgium has ever brought over its colonial past.
History
How Pharmaceutical Pricing Actually Works in the United States
Americans pay almost three times more for drugs than people in comparable countries. Here is how the pricing chain actually works, who profits at each step, and what recent reforms will change.
Evergreen Science & Medicine
Political Assassination Almost Never Works: Twenty-One Centuries of Evidence
Since 1875, only one in five assassination attempts on national leaders has succeeded. Of those that did, almost none achieved the assassin’s stated goals. The historical pattern is remarkably consistent.
History
Facial Recognition Jailed an Innocent Grandmother for 163 Days
Angela Lipps spent 163 days in jail after Fargo police used facial recognition to connect her to a bank fraud she could not have committed. She was 1,200 miles away.
Digital Privacy True Crime