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Humanity has always found creative ways to gamble on its own misery. We bet on horses, on elections, on whether some foreign leader will still be breathing by Friday.

Congratulations, America. You fought for years to wrest TikTok from the clutches of ByteDance, waged legal battles all the way to the Supreme Court, and strong-armed a sale to a shining coalition of U.S.

### Another One Bites the Dust Forty-five days. That's all Wildlight Entertainment managed to keep the lights on for Highguard, their free-to-play "raid shooter" that launched January 26, 2026, and will go dark forever on March 12.

Here we are again. Another week, another headline about NASA's Artemis program either breaking something, rolling something back into a garage, or reshuffling a deck of mission cards that nobody asked to be reshuffled.

The federal government's confrontation with Anthropic last week was not a procurement dispute. It was a stress test — for the AI industry, for constitutional law, and for the question of whether private companies can maintain ethical guardrails when the government is the customer and tells them to remove those...