Month: July 2026

We all feel it now, somewhere between the ribs and the unpaid electricity bill. We are approaching the end of an era in which words still technically mean things, but only because nobody has yet had the administrative courage to admit otherwise. Work means security, except when it does not. Education means advancement, except when…

Edward Snowden currently lives somewhere in Russia. Rumor has it us somewhere around the  dismal and unsighty moscow suburb of Lyubertsy (although I do recommend the Ресторан Центральный is absolutely delicious. Ignore my friend Valeria. She insists the place is cursed, but that’s hardly the restaurant’s fault after she attempted to combine herring, vodka, pelmeni,…

Grace Boschen Science Base — The Last University By 2265 Grace Boschen Science Base is widely regarded as the most isolated permanent human scientific institution in the Solar System. That statement is somewhat misleading. It is not the furthest inhabited place. There are relay stations, autonomous observatories and occasional industrial expeditions operating even farther from…

2035: The Netherlands Discovers That “Water Management” Was Not a Personality Trait By 2035, things had gone off the rails in a way we all, apparently, completely didn’t see coming. Which is strange, because it had been coming for decades. Quietly. Politely. In the reports. In the insurance models. In the municipal footnotes. In the…

P r o l e t a r i a t The meeting was held beneath a hotel that no longer officially existed. The building above it had once been a mineral bathhouse, then a private clinic for exhausted industrialists, then a boutique conference estate for people who disliked being photographed. Now its surface function…