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Your Data Is a Weapon. The Ad Industry Built It.
U.S. troops targeted via ad data, AI value alignment research, and the Oura Ring's biometric ambitions form a single surveillance architecture.
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The $2K Film and the $1.75T IPO Are the Same Bet
A $2,000 AI film at Tribeca and SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO pitch both ask us to fund the vibe before the proof of concept.
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The Chinese Supply Chain Runs Through Everything
From Waymo's Ojai minivan to Peak Performance x Ruohan Wang, Chinese manufacturing and aesthetics are quietly structuring Western cool.
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Kane Parsons, Lost Leonora, and the Return of the Found
A lost Leonora Carrington painting, a teenage director's Backrooms film, and the Venice Biennale's 'endurance' thesis share one obsession: what survives.
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Language Models Are Failing Minority Languages. On Purpose.
A Tajik LLM launch, Tiwani's closure, and AI literacy research expose how the infrastructure of intelligence reproduces exclusion by design.
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Looksmaxxing, Creed, and the New Masculinity Algorithm
Creed fragrance's looksmaxxing moment, Sesame AI's companionship app, and prediction market teens are all symptoms of the same optimization culture.
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Tiwani Closes. Art Basel Expands. Do the Math.
Tiwani Contemporary shutters as Art Basel Paris grows. The African art market's access problem is a structural one, not a taste problem.
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