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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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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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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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'Money trauma': slippery slope to a cashless society?
A look at what might happen when the language of healing begins to overlap with the language of policy.
May 7
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 3, 2026
BoJo says birth rate decline is a blessing; AI-first fighting force; markets go parabolic while Grandich goes viral; Gen Z heads to church.
May 3
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A deeper look at what lies behind 'Universal High Income'
As Courtenay Turner explains, beneath the language of automated abundance lies a very different kind of structure — one that raises some very hard…
May 2
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Prediction markets have democratized insider trading
Once the purview of pinstriped millionaires trading merger tips over steak dinners, it's now possible for anyone with a cellphone to cash out in hours…
Apr 30
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