Notes on Entrapment, Happiness, and the Art of Staying Human Introduction Finland tops the World Happiness Report year after year, a statistical triumph that feels increasingly surreal when you learn that roughly half a million Finns—nearly 10% of the adult population—are trapped in a debt enforcement system that

I’ve deployed and nurtured more nonprofit websites than I can count. Most of them were small, well-meaning projects — a WordPress instance here, a Drupal site there. A few years ago, though, I decided to get clever. “If we’re going to do this,” I thought, “let’s do it

From the Personal Log of Rosa Ilyanova, Field Medical Coordinator Team Lifeline (IFRC) - Final Entry Date: [CORRUPTED] - Day [ERROR] after the Geneva Event This is Rosa Ilyanova, Team Lifeline Field Medical Coordinator, transmitting on emergency frequency 14.300 MHz. If anyone receives this, please understand: we were wrong

The critique of platform capitalism is, by now, familiar. We know that algorithmically driven platforms monetize urgency, fragment solidarity, and flatten discourse into consumable loops of outrage and performance. What’s less developed, though, is the conversation about what comes after critique: how to build the conditions for durable, collective

A Study in Contrasts from Operation Horizon Veil Introduction: What Actually Happened Over two weeks between July and August of 2025, a group of cybersecurity professionals, policy experts, and crisis management practitioners participated in "Operation Horizon Veil"—a five-day, high-intensity geopolitical simulation run remotely via Slack before culminating