robots, usury, and plagiarism machines
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Parvati was born to me, daughter of the mountain.
- A marketing agency scraped an entire book, swapped in AI slop, and now outranks the real author on Google
- Ukraine’s honey-trap intelligence network directing drone strikes from inside occupied territory
- How a 1515 church council made modern finance theologically possible
- Delivery robot bans and protest groups are sprouting across US cities
- Drew Gilpin Faust on what made Patrick Henry’s oratory actually work
- Are tariffs forcing Europe to finally build its own software stack?
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