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Reflection on the Student Uprising in France Commentary

Rebellion of French Students and a Futureless School System

While we build armies and intelligent machines, we expect the youth not to notice that the future we are handing to them more closely resembles a threat than a promise.

Student Uprising in France / illustration

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AI is good enough - why isn't that enough?

More powerful models arrive faster than society can understand them. The issue is no longer whether we can continue, but why we must not stop.

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A Multiple Attack on Humanity Has Been Declared

The supervillain is at the podium, while the heroes remain seated. It is time for all of humanity to prepare for defense because war has been declared on multiple fronts.

Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026.

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If You Don't Believe in Terminator, We're Doomed

When reality is hidden behind a series of curtains, it becomes more dangerous to stop believing in the threat than to continue fearing it.

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Two curses of the periphery and only one escape

A state on the periphery may fancy that it's quite comfortable there, its citizens as well, but the reckoning of this illusion comes like the sound of an apocalypse.

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Two Cloves of Garlic at the Beginning of Dystopia

War has always produced monsters. But this is different — more personal, more immediate, and utterly deaf to every plea for mercy.

In the eye of the machine / illustration

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Failed Planet as a Gift for the Digital God

Covering the world with data centers is an obsession that goes beyond the desire for profit, it evolves into antagonism towards the slow and imperfect evolution of mankind.

The ultimate deus ex machina / illustration

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Red Scare Under Stone Presidents

As palaces start to fear the poor, old spirits emerge from the basement of American politics, ready for a new service, first imagined, then real.

Trump's speech on communism / illustration

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Zelensky’s Letter to Putin Is a Grim Prophecy

Volodymyr has written to Vladimir, publicly, but it reads more like a bad omen than a peace offer. How will Russia react?

Zelenski (ured ukrajinskog predsjednika) / napad na Sankt Peterburg 3. lipnja 2026. (AP/Guliver Image)

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Serbia Between Worlds: Pandora’s Box in the Crosswind

To be anyone’s periphery, Western or Eastern, is just another name for exploitation — but every upheaval still forces a choice.

Demonstrations in Belgrade, May 23, 2026.

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Myth of Invulnerability: Are the Baltics Next?

When the great protector grows tired of the storm, small states are left under a sky they helped set on fire. The Baltics may learn this too late.

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Kentucky Fried MAGA and Trump’s Cult of Personality

To break a single dissident, Trump had to mobilize the entire machine. He won the votes, but burned his own movement in the process.

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Kakistocracy: the Worst Become the Natural Choice

Kakistocracy does not come to power by force, but quietly, when a society stops believing it deserves better and begins to recognize its own exhaustion in the worst among us.

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Fingers in the Gears, Heads on the Digital Guillotine

Do we even know what the first Industrial Revolution was, or is it only now, on the threshold of a new one, that we hear the grinding of its machines through the hum of our own?