Patrick Gibson: The Actor Who Accidentally Became a Geopolitical Barometer Dave’s Locker – Global Bureau, 12 June 2024 PARIS—In the grand carnival of 21st-century fame, where TikTok dentists become foreign-policy advisors and crypto bros lecture the G-20 on monetary policy, the case of Patrick Gibson is refreshingly modest. The 28-year-old Irish actor did not invent…
From the Ruins of the American Empire, a Six-Stringed Consolation Prize Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk | 12 June 2025 Paris—It is 2 a.m. on the Rive Gauche and the bistros have finally run out of rosé. Somewhere between a tab of questionable MDMA and a heated debate on whether NATO still exists, a busker breaks…
Seoul, South Korea – At 3:14 a.m. local time, when most of this megacity’s 9.7 million residents were asleep, a 14-year-old coder in Gangnam discovered that a Roblox experience titled “Steal a Brainrot” had been quietly translated into Korean, Arabic, Spanish and Tagalog. Within four hours, the game’s concurrent player count leapt from 12,000 to…
