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I Lied to China’s New AI. It Caught Me Twice.
A launch-night sting on Kimi K3 — in which the machine graded its examiner back, and the bill landed on the West’s near-trillion-dollar labs.
16 hrs ago
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Key That Is You
Digital identity is becoming the precondition for holding anything at all. And identity has an issuer.
Jul 10
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Copy and the Code
Tokenized stocks are about to land in your account. What you hold will be a copy — and the copy answers to code.
Jul 9
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Nazem Alkudsi
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June 2026
A Key Above Every Key
How one key came to override all the others
Jun 28
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Money Goes First
Why money is the first thing they came for
Jun 22
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Honest Pitch
What a token is, before we argue about it
Jun 15
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Permission Society
What a deed still means, in a world being rebuilt on ledgers
Jun 9
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Country That Chose
The Vietnam War and its neighbors: Essay Three
Jun 1
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Nazem Alkudsi
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May 2026
The Country That Was Not at War
Essay two of three. Laos.
May 23
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Tower That Never Opened
Essay one of three. Cambodia.
May 17
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The War That Did Not End
An introduction to a three-part series on Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
May 11
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Nazem Alkudsi
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The Mirror Above the Counter
On the question we replaced, and what it cost.
May 3
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Nazem Alkudsi
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