**Lowering the Flag: Why the World is Trending at Half-Mast Today** Alright, internet denizens, gather ’round. Today, we’re talking about something that’s got the world collectively nodding in solemnity. No, it’s not the latest TikTok dance trend or a viral meme—though, let’s be honest, those are usually more our speed. Today, we’re discussing the global…
Grammy Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire: When Disco Diplomacy Meets the End of the World By “Jet-Lagged” Javier Morales, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Los Angeles—The Dolby Theatre glowed like a malfunctioning lava lamp last night while the Recording Academy attempted to resuscitate planetary morale with a “Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Earth, Wind…
Hamish Kerr: The Pole-Vaulting Diplomat Who Accidentally Unites a Fractured Planet By Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent, filing from the thinning ozone layer above Auckland If you’ve never heard of Hamish Kerr, congratulations—you’ve been living under a rock that, frankly, has better Wi-Fi than most of the global south. For the uninitiated, Kerr is the 26-year-old…
SYDNEY McLAUGHLIN-LEVRONE: THE LAST HAPPY THING BEFORE THE FIREWORKS FACTORY BLOWS By the time most of the planet wakes up, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has already done something that would make an Olympic demigod blush and a hedge-fund quant reach for new algorithms. On a humid Thursday in Paris—while half the world argued on social media about…
Dispatch from the Department of Global Eyebrow Affairs: How Eugene Levy Became the Planet’s Last Reliably Unifying Asset By Marcel “Marbles” Delacroix, Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent, currently in self-imposed exile from polite society It is late May, 2024. The Arctic Council is hurling snowballs at itself over drilling rights, the European Central Bank is printing…
