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The PlayStation Sideshow: Hardware Hype and Software Smoke
When a major company stages a 35-minute showcase, it isn’t just announcing products — it is tracing its roadmap, planting flags, and testing the air for life—or at least relevance. Sony’s recent State of Play did exactly that: a carefully spaced mixture of first- and third-party reveals, hardware garnish, and accessory bets. Beneath the glitz…
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Civility, Insults, and Content Wars: When the Vice President Flips the Script
It has become a perverse form of theater: a live criminal investigation, narrated in real time not by detectives but by hyperpartisan officials competing for the opening line of the news cycle. The vice president demands “civility”—then unleashes profanity. The White House leaps to blame before forensics dust a print. A former Obama speechwriter counters…
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The New Perjury Standard: A Partisan Scalpel For Comey
Somewhere between the solemnity of congressional hearings and the cheap thrill of cable news lies a phrase so heavy it used to rattle marble columns: lying to Congress. It once suggested disgrace, a scarlet letter on a public servant’s record. Now it is being hauled out as a courtroom cudgel, with prosecutors preparing to indict…
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Apple Blinks at the Screen: When a $3 Trillion Company Gets Spooked by a TV Show
Apple has spent the last decade branding itself as the patron saint of courage.Courage to remove the headphone jack. Courage to sell you the same laptop three years running with one extra port. Courage to charge $19 for a cloth. But courage to air a scripted drama about violent online networks in the weeks after…
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Our Eleven Months of Forever
Eleven months isn’t supposed to be a constellation anyone notices. It’s the small notch between neat numbers, the almost-anniversary. But month eleven is where my sky learned a new center. Before you, my days rose and set on whatever I could will into motion—travel, work, friendship, survival—like a planet faking its own sunrise with a…