Editor’s Note

We publish this piece in the August of 2026, as the machinery of global commerce groans and sputters, as hollow men in expensive suits speak of “corrections” and “adjustments” while families count pennies in dimly lit kitchens. The photograph you see above - those gaunt men hunched over bowls of thin soup, their eyes fixed on some middle distance between hunger and dignity - was snapped nearly a century ago, yet it could have been taken yesterday in any tent city stretching like a scar across the American landscape. We do not traffic in false nostalgia here, nor in the cheap comfort of historical distance. The Great Depression was not a sepia-toned folktale; it was a meat-grinder that chewed through 25 percent of the working population, that evicted grandmothers into snowbanks, that turned proud men into beggars and children into scavengers. The bones of that era still jut through the soil of our present moment - visible to anyone brave enough to look. What follows is not a curiosity shop of antiquated customs, but a field manual written in blood and hunger, a record of how ordinary human beings refused to break when the world snapped in half. Read it. Memorize it. The wolves are already at the door. [Read More]

AI companies are buying physical books by the thousands and even the millions. They cut the spines off, run the pages through high-speed scanners, and then shred or discard the paper originals. Books printed before 2022 are especially prized because they contain no AI written text: “AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop” [Read More]

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that makes the expansion of AI a top government priority and enshrines it as the key to solving the world’s most challenging problems.

The executive order, called the “Genesis Mission,” makes the development of artificial intelligence a matter of “national security,” meaning everything and anything will be thrown at it with no regulations or protections against the dark side of this technology. [Read More]

Stanford University has issued a chilling warning about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs. The number of job opportunities for young professionals in AI-affected sectors across the United States has dropped by 13% over the past three years.

According to a report from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, AI is going to reduce the number of jobs available to human beings, and has already done so. Researchers cautioned that smart technologies are swiftly reshaping career prospects for entry-level workers, and the future is looking increasingly bleak.

Once upon a time, talk of AI stealing jobs from people was science fiction. Today, it’s real life. From graphic design and translation to copywriting and customer service, we have already seen how quickly automation can eat into work once done exclusively by humans. This trend is no longer a problem for the future – it’s already happening. What’s currently unfolding is not just a shift in productivity tools, but a total structural transformation in how the world economy functions. By 2030, the global workforce may look completely unrecognisable, with over 300 million jobs projected to be severely impacted or totally replaced in just the next few years. [Read More]

If you have applied for hundreds of jobs and still find yourself out of work, you are certainly not alone. In many industries, it is absolutely brutal out there right now. U.S. employers have been laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in 2025, and there is immense competition for any good jobs that do happen to be available. So if you have a good job that you highly value, I would hold on to it as tightly as you can, because you don’t want to end up among the desperate hordes that are scrambling for work in this very harsh economic environment. For example, a 46-year-old woman in Florida that was laid off last September has applied for 900 jobs without any success at all... [Read More]

International Man introduces the topic of rapidly advancing technologies that were once considered science fiction, noting that they are now becoming reality. Among these, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is highlighted as a particularly important area of progress. The discussion opens with a question on perspectives regarding AI’s development and its future trajectory. [Read More]

In this episode of Cutting Through the Chaos, Artificial Intelligence is often marketed as the great neutralizer - an objective problem-solver, a logic engine immune to bias. But in practice, AI has become the handmaid of ideology, enforcing dominant cultural narratives under the guise of neutrality. What we’re witnessing is not the rise of an independent intelligence, but the institutionalization of bias through code, feedback, and curation. [Read More]