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Artificial Intelligence, Sovereignty, and the New Geopolitics of Power -An examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the global balance of power by turning models, chips, data, and platforms into strategic assets contested by states, corporations, and emerging AI blocs. Every fracture in institutional life eventually reaches the border. Earlier essays in this series explored how…

The Promise They called it Continuity. That was the marketing word, chosen deliberately for its clean, bloodless, reassuring quality. Continuity of self. Continuity of memory. Continuity of you, presented like a firmware update for the soul. The advertisements showed grandparents hugging grandchildren after death, all teeth and tears and tasteful lighting. A daughter runs across a sunlit meadow…

–In an age obsessed with optics and algorithms, Cooler Than I is a scathing, elegiac ode to authenticity. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never be cooler than I,Not in your thousand-dollar sneakers,Not with your curated cry,Not with your dopamine drip of validation and clicks,Not with your slow-motion vape cloud tricks. I was forged in the analog age.Where silence had static and wisdom had…

—January begins without spectacle. Just light, habit, and the quiet agreement to continue. The morning arrives intact,no smoke, no echo, no debrisfrom whatever passed for celebrationhours ago. The street is clean.The sky is ordinary.The year doesn’t askhow you spent the night. Coffee brews the same way it always has,patient, unbothered by calendars.The mug fits your hand without comment.Steam…

—gothic, tragic, a love letter to what’s already gone You left it there, halfway consumed,a porcelain wound in the hallway gloom.Steam long gone, the ring still wet,your favorite mug, your lone regret.A shadowed sip, a final stare,a cold cup waiting on the stair. No note. No rush. No shattered glass.Just silence soft enough to pass.The kettle off, the lights all low,a chair not pushed in all…

—here the fluorescents flicker, the cashier never blinks, and the coffee machine never stops brewing The road was empty, endless, wrong.Your map had burned out miles too long.The fuel light blinked, your hands were numb,but there it was, the station. Come.A single pump, a neon hum,a door that sighed like something dumb. Inside, the air was thick with brine.The clerk did not look up in time.The…

—descending into a more domestic haunting, where grief hides in routine and the kitchen remembers more than it should You never meant to leave it there.That mug, her favorite, chipped with care,still sits inside, behind the door,like a tomb you don’t recall building.You meant to heat it, just reheat it,but the days outpaced intention. Now weeks have passed, the coffee clots,a circle of mold…

—brewed remembrance The stove was cold for years, they say,yet every dusk, without delay,the kettle clinked, the filter hissed,a sound no living soul had missed.No lights were on. No feet would treadinto the kitchen of the dead. The neighbors swore it was the wind,that broken pipe, that trick again,but all could smell the coffee burn,could feel the chill with each return.And in the pane, just…