10 For the past few weeks, social network X has had new interaction options. There's a form of artificial intelligence that can search for information about what's posted there, telling you if it's factual or not, or helping users provide context or question the veracity of what's being said. But the algorithm also has another application: undressing young women.

]]> In times uncertain in every aspect, the promise of impossible certainties becomes a blinding and addictive opiate. Certainties that function as temporary refuges from a world that is increasingly difficult to digest. But the temporality of these certainties is more ephemeral than ever, laying bare their lack of real substance. They are pseudo-certainties thrust upon us through information overload and technological algorithms, which transform any legitimate concern into an avalanche of easy, conclusive, and reassuring answers. Answers that offer instant comfort, but which then leave a deep void, an absence of meaning that seeks only to be filled with more immediate stimuli, with extreme dogmatism, with simplistic and salvific narratives, with trap-like refuges that promise protection while imprisoning us in a desperate meaninglessness, hunting noise, excess, and emptiness.

]]> There's something truly exciting about hearing Zohran Mamdani address Donald Trump with his now-famous cry of "turn up the volume!" during his victory speech. The brand-new mayor of New York—having broken all his records: the first Muslim, the youngest in a hundred years—not only taught the president a lesson from the wealthiest city in the United States, but also demonstrated that politics can be done differently. While some parties present reports, charts, and address the public like technocrats or PhD students, Mamdani spoke to them as if he were sending them a memo.

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