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The Most Special Relationship: How the British Secret Service Created the CIA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the 27th of October, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt stood before a room full of Naval officers and bragged about a map, which he described as proof of Hitler’s expansionist plans for South America.
Prompt King: The Enthronement of Generative AI Through the Supply Chain
NEW YORK, NY – In most people's minds, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is strictly associated with the creative industries and the natural language models that output images based on textual inputs called prompts.
The Coming Invasion of Mexico and the Balance of Power in the New Cyber Economic Order
MEXICO D.F. (Federal District) – A poignant cartoon titled "Venus de Fentanilo" appeared in a recent edition of Mexican daily, La Jornada, showing a drug-addled Venus de Milo draped in an American flag with multiple syringes protruding from her famously missing arms strewn across the floor.
Triple Gambit: Draft Kings, The Skull and the Origins of Nexo’s Dev Team
NEW YORK, NY – A class action lawsuit brought against American fantasy sports gambling company, Draft Kings, in the Southern District of New York (SDNY)
Nexo’s Israeli Connection and Cornering Bulgaria’s Human Capital Markets
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – In an interview last week to the Israeli newspaper of record Haaretz, Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev floated the possibility of filing a "mutual legal assistance request"
Mob Wars: Bulgaria’s Trauma Bond to Euro-Atlanticism and the Credit Millionaire Club
SOFIA, BULGARIA – 1989 is marked in the collective Bulgarian memory, along with every other former Eastern bloc country, as the year that everything changed.
Balkan Noire: Nexo’s State Secrets, the Cryptoqueen and the Prosecutor
LONDON, ENGLAND – All things considered, the likelihood that Ruja Ignatova – a.k.a. the Cryptoqueen – is still alive seems remote.
The Big Bluff: Online Poker, Crypto and Western Capital’s Last Gamble
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Selim Suner’s luck could have turned out very differently if not for an impulse to put ₺135 lira – roughly a hundred dollars –, into an online gambling website just weeks before he was set to take a leave of absence from his union job at the Turkish daily Sabah to complete his compulsory military service in 2008.
Where’s Ferris Bueller? The Illuminati Bash That Never Was and the Origins of Internet Conspiracy Politics
CAIRO, EGYPT – "Dear Ed," began the short note addressed to a fellow Yale graduate from the suburbs of Chicago. "The last two decades have been rough," it continued, "but you are doing well on the Supreme Court. We are still fine. I think back to Jan. 21, 1980, when we did well in Iowa. (We did - didn’t we.) I’m getting older, but we still miss you."
Galactic Cyber Citizens and the Theater of the Oppressed – Hacktivism and Bitcoin’s Political Destiny
FORT MEADE, MARYLAND – Suspicions of an intelligence agency's involvement did not deter people like Lazlo Hanyecz and other early Bitcoin adopters, who despite concluding that Satoshi was "not a real person" after communicating directly with the furtive cryptocurrency genius...