A reflection on how the erosion of international institutions removes the friction that once restrained escalation and made catastrophic war harder to initiate. What happens when the systems built after 1945 to slow conflict are steadily dismantled, leaving threats to operate without constraint?
The people generating AI slop at scale are making a choice to strip-mine a commons—to extract private profit while pushing the cost of filtering and verification onto everyone else. Is the rise of generated content a technical evolution, or a fundamental breach of information ethics?
Bill Gates warns of a coming “Dark Age” in global development. But the crisis he describes is not accidental—it’s the predictable outcome of the philanthropic model he helped normalize. His foundation has spent two decades aligning charitable grants with private market expansion, creating dependency rather than resilience, and concentrating power without democratic accountability.
