**The TikTok Deal: How a Dancing App Became the World’s Most Expensive Geopolitical Hot Potato** If you’ve been wondering what fresh hell 2025 has in store for us, look no further than the ongoing TikTok saga—a corporate soap opera so convoluted it makes Brexit negotiations look like a straightforward business transaction. What began as an…
Swayze Bozeman, a 27-year-old digital nomad from Missoula, Montana, has become the first human to be de-platformed by a refrigerator. Last Tuesday, somewhere between the durian stall at Bangkok’s Or Tor Kor market and the 7-Eleven that sells better sushi than most of Tokyo, his smart fridge back home—an Internet-of-Things behemoth named “Fridgely” by its…
Google just coughed up Gemini, the latest multi-modal oracle trained on more text than any human could skim in a lifetime, and the planet reacted with the usual cocktail of awe, terror, and LinkedIn hot takes. From Brussels boardrooms to Nairobi cyber-cafés, the consensus is that this chatbot-on-steroids is less a product launch and more…
Louisiana v. Missouri: A Lawsuit So American It Could Start a Trade War Over Crawfish and Meth By the time the Supreme Court agreed to hear Louisiana v. Missouri, the rest of the planet had already filed it under “only in the United States,” somewhere between deep-fried butter and presidential Twitter feuds. On paper it…
Facebook’s $725 Million Privacy Settlement: A Global Receipt for Twenty Years of Oversharing By Our Correspondent, Somewhere with Better Wi-Fi Than You Mark Zuckerberg’s legal team finally found the “download receipt” button—except instead of a PDF, it’s a $725 million class-action settlement, and instead of a printer, it’s wired directly to the 250 million Americans…
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…
Davos, Switzerland – While most mortals spent last week debating whether the planet’s thermostat should be set to “medium-rare” or “cremation,” Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) quietly reminded the alpine glitterati that the United States still owns the original remote control. The man who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee took the stage at the World Economic…
