Algorithms don't reward the best argument. They reward the most emotional one. Each moral-emotional word in a post increases its spread by 20%. Trump and Farage understood this before anyone else, and the result is a political culture where outrage goes viral, nuance gets buried, and disagreement is treated as evidence that someone is morally wrong.

Soviet housing was supposed to represent collectivism in action. Roman Kireev argues it achieved the opposite — breeding bitterness, self-fortification, and a culture of private retreat that has left its mark on Eastern European language, art, and public consciousness to this day.

Sony has announced that physical disc production for PlayStation consoles will end in January 2028, moving the platform entirely to digital. The decision has sparked backlash over game preservation, consumer choice and Sony's growing control over the market.

When politics itself reads like parody, the question is no longer whether satire is still relevant, but whether we can still tell the difference between the joke and the reality.