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Why We Can't Return to a Pre-Industrial Society

Before the Industrial Revolution, you could simply walk into the woods, change your name, and start over. Today, a world of 8 billion people and complex bureaucracies has made escaping civilization not just illegal, but physically impossible.

Haykal M. ZaidiJul 21, 20262 min read

Human Rights

Why We Don’t Let Migrant Workers Drive

From the Gulf to Southeast Asia, blocking low-wage laborers from getting a driver's license isn't a paperwork oversight—it’s a deliberate policy to keep them captive.

Haykal M. ZaidiMay 26, 20264 min read

Technology

How Telegram Built a Social Feature on Straight-Up Piracy

Instead of paying for licensing deals, Telegram's profile music feature relies on users uploading ripped MP3s—quietly pushing them into legal and ethical gray zones.

Haykal M. ZaidiMay 24, 20262 min read

Science

Why mirror reverse your image horizontally not vertically?

Richard Feynman's physics puzzles, Fun To Imagine, 1983

May 21, 20261 min read

Music

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May 20, 20261 min read

Human Rights

Don't Treat Teachers Like Clerks and Students Like Compliance Officers

How can we create a real spreadsheet without replacing actual education with "another" spreadsheet?

Haykal M. ZaidiMay 20, 20265 min read

Global Society

Why We Can't Return to a Pre-Industrial Society

Haykal M. ZaidiJul 21, 20262 min read

Global Society

YouTube Removes Mustafa Al-Mawmari's Video Mocking Mishary Alafasy

A viral video by controversial Yemeni creator Mustafa Al-Mawmari criticizing Kuwaiti reciter Mishary Rashid Alafasy's anti-Iran song has been taken down by YouTube.

Haykal M. ZaidiMay 8, 20262 min read

Global Society

The Human Engine Inside the Efficiency Machine

As digital and economic systems demand relentless productivity, we have to remember that a flawed system doesn’t define the well-meaning people trying to survive within it.

Haykal M. ZaidiMay 5, 20263 min read

Global Society

US Marines Deploy as Washington Quietly Relaxes Oil Sanctions

A rapid buildup of US troops in the Middle East is coinciding with quiet economic concessions on Iranian oil. The contrast shows how fragile the global energy market remains under pressure.

Haykal M. ZaidiMar 21, 20263 min read

Global Society

Israel's mission, not the US's mission on Iran

Trump's and Bibi's visions are conflicting with each other.

Haykal M. ZaidiMar 20, 20261 min read

Global Society

Darksword and Millions of iPhones Potentially Exposed to via Ukrainian Sites

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a massive surveillance campaign utilizing a new iOS exploit dubbed "Darksword," marking the second major iPhone vulnerability discovered this month.

Haykal M. ZaidiMar 20, 20263 min read

Global Society

Syria’s Post-Assad Govt Admits 100 Secret Chemical Sites Remain Hidden Amid Regional War

The new Sharaa government partners with the OPCW to hunt down Bashar al-Assad's clandestine weapons arsenal as the expanding regional conflict threatens the mission.

Haykal M. ZaidiMar 19, 20262 min read

Global Society

No Bunkers for Beit Awwa: Palestinian Women Killed by Iranian 'Resistance' Fire

While the elites in Tel Aviv retreat to high-tech shelters, three Palestinian women in Hebron paid the ultimate price for a war they didn't start. Tehran’s cluster munitions turned an Eid hair salon visit into a massacre.

Haykal M. ZaidiMar 19, 20261 min read