**The Global Siren Song of the FanDuel Touchdown Jackpot: How America’s Digital Gold Rush Went Viral** While the world grapples with climate refugees and supply chain collapses, nothing quite captures the zeitgeist of late-stage capitalism like watching a London investment banker place bets on Cleveland’s third-string quarterback during his lunch break. The FanDuel Touchdown Jackpot—America’s…
**The Tiny Town That Outsourced Itself: How Minco, Oklahoma Became a Global Metaphor for Modern Delusion** In the grand theater of globalization, where megacities swallow nations and tech titans play deity with GDPs, the international press corps rarely wastes column inches on places like Minco, Oklahoma—a town whose population (1,632 souls, give or take a…
Metaverse, Shmetaverse: The Global Circus Where Everyone’s Avatar Is Better Dressed By the time you finish this sentence, another island nation will have announced a “Metaverse Embassy,” another Fortune-500 CEO will have sworn the future is “phygital,” and another teenager in Jakarta will have sold a dragon-scale hoodie NFT for the price of a real…
Gen Z Years, or How to Age Gracefully in a World That Never Learned to Adult by Our Correspondent Somewhere Between TikTok and Existential Despair The generational cartographers at Pew finally drew the line: 1997–2012. In other words, if your first phone had Snake instead of Spotify, congratulations—you’re a millennial fossil. If you learned to…
