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Facial recognition and the transformation of public life
Mass identity scanning is quickly becoming a background condition of modern life.
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 24, 2026
Robotaxis are running into reality; college graduates are booing AI; and mandates live on.
May 24
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Can freedom survive in the age of frictionless control?
Mark Jeftovic explores why surveillance, digital identity, and technocratic governance increasingly feel inevitable in a collapsing institutional…
May 23
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Workers are more miserable — and less free to leave
Employees are reporting record levels of hostility, burnout, and dysfunction just as layoffs rise and economic escape routes vanish.
May 21
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The UN is bringing the world to Nairobi — and pricing locals out of it
As the United Nations expands its headquarters in the name of efficiency and 'empowering' the Global South, residents living beside the diplomatic…
May 19
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 17, 2026
Cheat codes; down with 'experts'; paging Mr. Peanut; Way-mo than people want to see.
May 17
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Reclaiming ownership in the age of 'smart' machines
A Canadian tractor builder is tapping into something far bigger than agriculture: the growing realization that modern technology increasingly serves…
May 16
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You are the carbon they want to remove
How governments restrict the movements of ordinary people to prevent forest fires, but protect the industrial systems reshaping the forest itself.
May 14
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When wrong becomes right
How small acts of justified wrongdoing reveal a much larger collapse in how we think about ethics.
May 12
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Mutual aid or wishful thinking? Book chat recap 'Lifehouse' by Adam Greenfield, Week 2
What would it really take for neighbors to trust each other, share resources, and survive together during a long emergency?
May 10
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 10, 2026
Project Freedom... Plus!; no child support, no passport; apocalypse early warning system; who's "Cliff from Las Vegas?"; Hantavirus dancing nurses in…
May 10
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What happens when young people stop believing in their financial future?
Hanna Horvath joins Collapse Life to unpack the deeper story behind money trauma, collapsing trust, and the emotional consequences of life in an…
May 9
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