Dispatch № 22s

The digital death spiral

What happens when an influencer turns their mental illness and euthanasia plans into viral content? In this unsettling longread, Maud Effting and Haro Kraak investigate the rise of Ghanaian-British influencer

Freedom by numbers

More than 200 court rulings in 2024 cite an algorithm that classifies foreign prisoners without ties as high risk, even if they lack other risk factors In 1993, two beekeepers

With food waste, the personal is political

In a personal but wide-ranging article for the Romanian online platform Scena9, the journalist Oana Filip explores the thorny issue of food waste. While the piece focuses on Filip’s home

Time is finally theirs to shape

Arab women in the diaspora discover new freedoms after fifty, liberated from the cultural constraints of their homelands and empowered to reinvent themselves on their own terms In this article

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