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Consolidation, Musk’s Quiet Tool
Quietly. Strategically. On-brand. He calls it X now. It’s not just a rebrand—it’s a power move. Twitter became X Corp, and that became the base layer for everything he’s building: AI tools, payment systems, satellite internet, commerce. His chatbot “Grok”? Already embedded into the platform. His AI company, xAI? Feeding off the data. And while…
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The Paradox of Discomfort and Compassion
Humans are inherently biased. Not only are we biased, but we are also contradictory creatures of habit who seek dopamine releases while desiring stability in our surroundings. We expect change, yet defend the status quo. Take me, for example: I want to be a writer, but I continually slack off and miss my Sunday blogs.…
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The Assumptions We Make
History has a cruel way of reminding us of our blind spots. It whispers to us through the wreckage of past mistakes, through the silenced voices of those who didn’t expect what was coming. Indigenous populations didn’t anticipate the scale of European colonization, not because they lacked wisdom or knowledge of the world, but because…
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Who Gets to Tell the Story?
History, they say, is written by the victors. But what about the unspoken stories? The ones whispered but never heard, buried under layers of bias and power? The world isn’t black and white; it never has been. It’s messy, raw, and infinitely complex. Yet, so often, the narratives we’re handed—the ones we consume, repeat, and…
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Vatican at the UN
Somewhere between cleaning up spilled juice and explaining why the sky is blue for the hundredth time, I stumbled on something odd: The Vatican, aka the Holy See, has a permanent observer seat at the UN. No voting, no dues, but still plenty of influence. And now my brain won’t let it go. I mean,…
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Elon Musk and the Playbook of Power
It’s 2 a.m. My three year old just woke up crying for the fourth time tonight, my one year old needs a diaper change, and my teenager has a school project due tomorrow that we haven’t finished. Meanwhile, I have to be up for my underpaying 9-to-5 job in a few hours, where I juggle…
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