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OpenAI Built a Safety Board. Then It Disappeared.
A blockbuster AI villain, a New Yorker investigation, and the institutions that keep turning danger into theater.
Apr 13
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Ethan Ward
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What I've Taken — No. 5
Brandy's memoir challenges decades of inherited narrative. Plus Meta's encryption reversal, Black journalists in Baltimore, and what Southern beauty…
Apr 10
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Ethan Ward
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LONGITUDE: 6.2603° W
Dublin, Ireland taught me the difference between an expat and an immigrant.
Apr 6
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Ethan Ward
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What I’ve Taken — No. 4
A recruitment pipeline to the front lines, a middle class that was policy before it was identity, and a songwriter who traded lyrics for a loom.
Apr 3
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Ethan Ward
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March 2026
Some People Travel. Their Hierarchy Does Too.
A glare in Bali becomes a reminder that some travelers cross borders without leaving their racial hierarchy behind.
Mar 30
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Ethan Ward
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What I’ve Taken — No. 3
The one about the grandmother gets harder the longer you sit with it.
Mar 27
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Ethan Ward
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Before I Knew How to Cross
From one balcony in HCMC's District 4, the street below made sense before the rest of the city did.
Mar 23
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Ethan Ward
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What I’ve Taken — No. 2
Survivors the law forgot, ambition that became dependence, and a demon built to be destroyed.
Mar 20
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Ethan Ward
2
The Algorithm Doesn’t Owe You an Explanation
How facial recognition and AI systems are normalizing decisions no one has to justify.
Mar 16
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Ethan Ward
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What I’ve Taken — No. 1
AI at war, a hollowed-out newsroom, a 1917 deportation, and what Confederate monuments are actually doing.
Mar 13
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Ethan Ward
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The Airbnb That Looked So Good in the Photos
What a scam in Cebu City taught me about who pays when no one does the work.
Mar 9
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Ethan Ward
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What Do We Inherit?
An introduction to INHERITANCE — and why it's about you.
Mar 6
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Ethan Ward
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