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How Emma Heming Willis Turned Her Husband’s Dementia Into the World’s Most Photogenic Supply Chain of Sympathy
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Emma Heming Willis and the Global Cottage Industry of Sympathy By Diego Vélez, International Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker PARIS—While the rest of us were busy panic-buying eggs and doom-scrolling through the latest geopolitical fire sale in Eastern Europe, Emma Heming Willis—model, entrepreneur, reluctant poster-child for the modern caregiving economy—quietly became a one-woman transnational Rorschach test. If…

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Current Events | International

Envelope Avengers: How 200,000 Postal Inspectors Keep the World’s Secrets (and Bombs) in Check
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Global Mail: The Quiet Bureaucrats Who Decide Whether Your Nasty Letter Crosses a Border by Our Correspondent, currently somewhere between two time zones and several broken scanners PARIS—Somewhere in the fluorescent bowels of La Poste’s sorting hub at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, a man named Étienne is weighing a postcard of the Eiffel Tower against the possibility that…

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Ground Zero’s Global Stage: How America’s Most Sacred Tourist Trap Became the World’s Shared Tombstone
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**The Monument to a World That Never Learned** The twin reflecting pools descend 30 feet into the earth like inverted towers, each acre of falling water designed to drown out the sounds of a city that apparently never learned to listen. On any given Tuesday—because terror, like capitalism, never takes holidays—you’ll find the 9/11 Memorial…

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International | Technology

Binance: The World’s Most Expensive Lesson in Regulatory Whac-A-Mole
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Binance: The Borderless Bazaar Where Nations Go to Window-Shop Sovereignty By Diego “Ledger” Mercier, Dave’s Locker International Desk It is 3:14 a.m. in Singapore, 7:14 p.m. in Lagos, and wherever you are, Changpeng Zhao—better known as CZ, the hoodie-wearing Houdini of high finance—is probably still awake, jogging in place on a yacht that exists only…

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Myleene Klass: How a British Pop Relic Became the World’s Most Portable Lifestyle Export
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Myleene Klass: The Global Afterglow of a British Pop Casualty Who Refuses to Leave the Party By Our Correspondent, still nursing a hangover from Eurovision 2006 LONDON—Somewhere between the collapse of the post-war pop order and the rise of TikTok monarchies, Myleene Klass became an international monument to the theory that fame is less a…

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World Holds Breath as 46 MB Silksong Patch Proves Miracles Still Fit on a USB Stick
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Somewhere between the Gaza cease-fire talks and the latest AI-generated copyright debacle, a new patch note slid onto Team Cherry’s Discord with the stealth of a Mossad operative. It read, in its entirety: “Silksong build 1.0.0.9 – minor stability tweaks, hornet animation polish, localization fixes.” The planet, collectively, lost what remains of its composure. From…

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Current Events | International

From Fort Greene to Fortress World: How Brooklyn’s Drizzle Became the Planet’s Barometer
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Brooklyn’s Weather Report, or How a Drizzle in Fort Greene Became the Planet’s Thermometer By a correspondent who has filed from both the Sahel and a Williamsburg coffee queue NEW YORK—While the rest of the world was busy arguing about carbon taxonomies and whether the Arctic will be beachfront property by 2035, Brooklyn woke up…

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David Coote: The Ref Who Became the World’s Punchline
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

The Curious Case of David Coote: How One Referee’s Zoom Lens Became a Global Rorschach Test By the time the clip reached a bar in Lagos, David Coote had already been sacked, re-hired in effigy, and turned into a cautionary emoji in Jakarta group chats. One slo-mo replay of a Liverpool midfielders’ kneecap—captured on an…

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Global Gridlock: How NYT Connections Became Humanity’s Favorite Daily Distraction from Collapse
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**The Global Puzzle: How NYT Connections Became the World’s Favorite Daily Existential Crisis** While wildfires consume Mediterranean islands and cryptocurrency millionaires hunt for the last ungentrified neighborhoods on Earth, humanity has found its new collective obsession: a five-by-four grid of seemingly unrelated words that must be sorted into categories. The New York Times’ Connections puzzle,…

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Analysis | International

Jordan Moray: The Salmon-Smuggling Everyman Who Became a Global Morality Play
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Jordan Moray, the man who accidentally became a geopolitical Rorschach test, has spent the last decade reminding the planet that even the most resolutely local scandals can go viral if you just add passports and a slow news week. Moray—once a mid-tier logistics planner for a shipping firm whose name sounds like a sneeze—was thrust…

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Business | International

Klarna’s Comeback IPO: Global BNPL Darling Seeks Second Chance at First Impression
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**Klarna’s IPO Watch: Buy-Now, Pay-Later Meets Buy-Now, Pray-Later** Stockholm—The city that once gave the world dynamite and ABBA is now preparing to gift Wall Street something even more explosive: Klarna, the Swedish fintech unicorn that taught teenagers how to finance a pair of socks in four easy payments. After shelving a €50 billion listing during…

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Today, Worldwide: A 24-Hour Tour of Our Simultaneous Existential Crisis
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Today—capital T, singular, allegedly singular—arrived at 00:00 UTC like a hung-over flight attendant who still manages to smile while spilling coffee on your laptop. From the International Date Line eastward, humanity rolled out of bed, checked its collective phone, and discovered that nothing fundamental had changed except the date stamp. Yet the machinery of the…

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