Short Stories: The Logbook's Lies (Part 1)
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The UAE Laundry: How to Wash British AI for Use in Sudan
So, we’re sitting here in 2025, and everyone is patting themselves on the back because we’ve finally got a "British" tech unicorn that isn’t just a food delivery app. Enter Anduril. It’s got the cool name, the "defense disruptor" branding, and it’
The Tribe Has Wi-Fi: Why the Internet Recreated the Bronze Age
The early internet was sold to us as a triumph of Enlightenment values: a frictionless marketplace of ideas; a global coffeehouse where facts would politely elbow superstition aside, democracy would flourish, and everyone would finally admit you were right all along. What we actually built looks less like a salon
When “More Friends” Becomes a Threat to Democracy: How Social Interaction Is Tearing Us Apart
Remember when having more friends was supposed to make you a better person? More friends = more perspectives = more empathy, right? Well, a new study makes precisely the sort of claim that feels like your dad yelling at a cloud: greater social connectivity has paradoxically made societies more polarized. Not “we
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Week the Sun Will Break the Internet
Redhill is the sort of English town that exists primarily to prove that not everything needs a backstory. It has parks, polite brick houses, a station that mostly works, and shops selling items you didn’t realise people still bought. You could live there for years without suspecting that history