Saturday, September 5, 2026
ArchiveU.S. Used Promise of Nvidia Chips to Broker Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Deal
GPU access helped end a decades-long territorial conflict. The U.S. dangled Nvidia chips to get Armenia and Azerbaijan to the table — a first-of-its-kind diplomatic instrument that says everything about where real power sits in 2026.
Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay
Steinem wrote this knowing it was her last. She traces a life from India to feminism to organizing in her own voice — not a eulogy but a reckoning, and the rare final essay that earns the word.
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Every crashed drone in Ukraine is a data gold mine. Sensor readings, electronic-warfare signatures, AI training footage — a Wild West marketplace is forming around battlefield wreckage, and defense contractors are buying.
Russian church 'finds' medieval prince's relics as war propaganda tool
Russian officials 'discovered' a medieval prince's sarcophagus and are shipping a bone fragment to the front lines. Meduza unpacks 15 centuries of relic veneration — then asks the question nobody expected: does Lenin's embalmed body count?
The Social Reckoning That Wasn't
Meta agreed to pay $18 billion. The press called it Big Tech's 'tobacco moment.' The stock went up. Boyle read the 130-page consent judgment so you don't have to — and the gap between headline and reality is the whole point.