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Fake news about the DPRK is nothing novel, and each new case shows how important it is for the audience to be able to navigate sources. The recent attempt to “bury” Kim Jong Un is once again forcing us to return to this issue.

While the world’s attention is fixed on wars, lab scandals, and the aftermath of the pandemic, another threat is quietly growing — antimicrobial resistance, which has already embedded itself in excess mortality statistics, and no one wants to look closely at that number.

Singularity is a myth with excellent production values: a clean villain, a clean apocalypse, and a clean date on the calendar. Reality is messier and less cinematic, a slow transfer of wealth, a quiet erosion of privacy, and a data center draining a town’s water supply.