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.
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.
There is a particular kind of satisfaction in watching a system outgrow its own mythology. Bitcoin, for years, was governed by a tidy narrative: the four-year halving cycle, the retail frenzy, the inevitable crash, and the slow, grinding recovery.