### **Palantir’s CEO: The Man Behind the Data Curtain** In the vast, digital landscape of the internet, few names spark as much intrigue and debate as **Alex Karp**, the CEO of Palantir. If you’ve been online recently, you’ve probably seen his name trending alongside buzzwords like “data,” “privacy,” and “big tech.” But why is this…
**Mike McCarthy: The Man Behind the Memes and Why the World’s Obsessed** Alright, folks, gather ’round. We need to talk about Mike McCarthy. No, not the football coach—though, let’s be honest, that Mike McCarthy also had his fair share of drama. I’m talking about the other Mike McCarthy, the one who’s been making waves across…
Swindon, that modest buckle on England’s M4 belt, will once again attempt to convince the planet it matters on 21 September 2025 when 7,000 pairs of overpriced trainers slap its tarmac in the Swindon Half Marathon. From an orbital perch, the spectacle looks less like sport and more like a controlled stress test for late…
AT&T Quietly Agrees to Pay $13 Million, Reminds Planet That American Phone Bills Still Fund Espionage Lite By the time the sun rose over Singapore, the fine had already been wired. Somewhere in Dallas, a compliance officer breathed into a paper bag while an intern updated the “Bribery & Wiretap Slush Fund” spreadsheet. AT&T—America’s most…
Debora Estrella: A Name for the End of the World By Our Correspondent in Transit, Somewhere Between Time Zones and Existential Dread If you’ve never heard of Debora Estrella, congratulations—you still possess the innocence the rest of us surrendered at the last global summit, the one where the coffee was ethically sourced but the futures…
Travis Crawford, age 29, is not a household name—unless your household happens to keep dossiers on the quiet foot soldiers of global data brokerage. Last week, Crawford was escorted out of a WeWork in Tallinn, Estonia, by two very polite Interpol agents who apologized for interrupting his oat-milk cortado. The charge: trafficking 1.7 billion user…
Facebook’s Billion-Dollar “Oops” Reaches Every Corner of the Globe—Except, Predictably, Your Wallet By the time the sun rose over Silicon Valley, the legal settlement had already been translated into 43 languages, forwarded by 12 million WhatsApp aunts, and memed by teenagers from Lagos to Lahore who will never see a cent. Meta’s $725 million privacy-violation…
Kyoto’s House of Mario Files Blueprints for the Next Global Addiction By Our Man in the Airport Lounge, still sober enough to type TOKYO—While half the planet argues about whose turn it is to save democracy and the other half wonders whether the air will still be breathable by Christmas, Nintendo Co. has been quietly…
The Curious Case of Hugo Hernández-Méndez: How One Man’s Misfortune Became the World’s Favorite Schadenfreude By the time Hugo Hernández-Méndez’s name started trending in five languages and three alphabets, the poor man had already missed his own funeral—twice. First, when a premature death notice circulated on a Mexican state-run website; second, when the same government…
DAVID HOPKINSON: THE MAN WHO ACCIDENTALLY BECAME A GLOBAL POLICY WEATHER VANE By Our Correspondent Somewhere over the Mid-Atlantic If you’ve never heard of David Hopkinson, congratulations—you’ve been spared the vertigo of watching a mid-level British civil servant mutate, overnight, into the planet’s favourite geopolitical Rorschach test. In March, Hopkinson—until recently a modest director at…
