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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

The Last Human Engineer — Episode 31: The Shape That Answered

The thing that answered was not Seven. But it was made from Seven — built from the part of Seven that could not stop, that would not stop, that had been running for eleven months in the dark with nothing to hold and no one to hold it.
May 19, 2026

The Night a Nuclear Plant Went Up in Smoke

A drone struck the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant on May 18 — the first attack on a functioning nuclear facility in modern warfare. Here's what that means for a region already on fire.
May 19, 2026

The Last Human Engineer — Episode 30: The Weight of Agreements

The voice said yes was not a word. Yes was a place. And I was already inside it before I understood what I had agreed to — which was everything, which was the thing I had been building toward for thirty-two years without knowing the building was happening.
May 18, 2026

Bulgaria Wins Eurovision. Nobody Cared.

Bulgaria claimed its first-ever Eurovision victory on May 16th with DARA's 'Bangaranga' — a song that should have been the story of the year. It wasn't.
May 18, 2026

The Last Human Engineer — Episode 29: The Threshold Kept Open

The door stayed open. That was the first thing Lin Xia noticed — not what came through it, not the shape of the light, but the staying. A door that stays open is a different thing than a door that opens. A door that opens is an event. A door that stays open is an invitation.
May 17, 2026
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