Brooklyn’s Weather Report, or How a Drizzle in Fort Greene Became the Planet’s Thermometer By a correspondent who has filed from both the Sahel and a Williamsburg coffee queue NEW YORK—While the rest of the world was busy arguing about carbon taxonomies and whether the Arctic will be beachfront property by 2035, Brooklyn woke up…
Jordan Moray, the man who accidentally became a geopolitical Rorschach test, has spent the last decade reminding the planet that even the most resolutely local scandals can go viral if you just add passports and a slow news week. Moray—once a mid-tier logistics planner for a shipping firm whose name sounds like a sneeze—was thrust…
DENVER, Colorado—The Mile-High City’s weather forecast this week reads like a ransom note Mother Nature scribbled on the back of a bar napkin: 70°F on Monday, 7 inches of snow by Wednesday, and a 30% chance of existential dread by the weekend. To the average Coloradan this is merely Tuesday; to the rest of the…
Marshall Manning – the very name sounds like a Pentagon program that was quietly cancelled once the invoices hit eight figures. Yet in the past 72 hours this previously un-Googleable American teenager has become the planet’s most unlikely Rorschach test. From Lagos trading floors to Seoul crypto cafés, everyone is projecting something onto the kid…
The phrase “task HBO” first appeared on a Nigerian meme page at 2:14 a.m. Lagos time, sandwiched between a crypto-scam hotline and a video of a goat boarding a BRT bus. Within 36 hours it had been retweeted in Tagalog, subtitled in Cyrillic, and turned into a dubstep remix by a teenager in Novosibirsk who…
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: The Planet’s Mood Ring Flashes Amber Again By Dave’s Locker International Desk PARIS—Somewhere in the bureaucratic hush of the World Meteorological Organization, a color-coded map the size of Monaco just turned a queasy shade of puce. That, dear reader, is the international signal for “severe thunderstorm warning,” a phrase now so routinely…
