The Disco Girl
By: Raul Montano Alvarado The Dark The Light Of Red, Blue, Green, & White In the hotel of beauty & might One more night before I go To my favorite place, my home I know A party, they say, that I shall attend The last night here, should be one which I want no end I see my friends by the water’s meet On a dance with fun, and of so sweet Popular songs that topped the charts To Spanish ballads I know from heart But then I see her on the floor of dance Which makes my heart start
Raul Montano Alvarado
22 hours ago2 min read
Deepfakes: Weighing the Risks and the Benefits
By: Darren Lee As reported by Maria Negreiro, a Researcher at the European Parliamentary Research Service, an astounding 8 million deepfakes will be shared in 2025 up 7.5 million from 2023 and a projected 90 % of online content may be generated synthetically by 2026 (Negreiro, 2025). The use of deepfakes, realistic but fabricated videos, images or files created by Artificial Intelligence, has become a major issue for politics and society as a whole. Deepfakes can threaten de
Darren Lee
Mar 16 min read
Justice Without Leniency: The Necessity of Proportionate Punishment
By: Sean Yin Introduction There exists a renowned maxim in law that is commonly repeated in and out of courtrooms, and few others has received as much prevalent recognition as the reassurance that all accused will be presumed innocent until deemed otherwise during a formal trial. [1] This, along with the promise that all accused will be provided with a lawyer if they are not able to by the state/country, [2] are both examples of international laws passed to ensure a just cr
Sean Yin
Mar 19 min read
Markets, States, and the Logic of Incentives
By: Yan Xinkai (Kelly) From the butcher in Smith’s time 1 to the chatbot today, we are served not out of goodwill, but because it pays to serve. Enterprise behavior is not about intent, but about incentives. The question is not whether a firm seeks profit or serves under a public or charitable flag, but what kinds of behavior its "incentive architecture" promotes. This essay examines the hope of profit, and its opposite: do they encourage innovation, adaptiveness and account
Yan Xinkai (Kelly)
Feb 2311 min read
The Importance of Art and Literacy in an Era of Artificial Intelligence
By: Anisa Chandra This article wasn’t written with AI. That statement takes on more meaning as more of our world becomes centered on ChatGPT, Gemini, or ClaudeAI outputs. And you, dear reader, may be thinking to yourself: Why choose the harder route? Why spend hours creating a piece of media that could have been optimized, could have been done by a chatbot in a minute? To me, that’s because at the end of the day, an over-reliance on AI devalues human creativity and thinking.
Anisa Chandra
Jan 235 min read
Chicago, September
The Second City on a Day the Nation Stood Still By: Pranav Damera No one in Chicago woke up expecting the sky to feel dangerous. The morning air was cool enough to remind you autumn was coming, and Lake Michigan had that early-sun shimmer that makes the city look cleaner than it really is. People rode the Red Line with backpacks and folded newspapers, bought coffee from corner carts, and hurried across streets that smelled faintly of diesel and bakery steam drifting out of th
Pranav Damera
Jan 154 min read
The Lost Art of Speaking to Strangers
By: Anisa Chandra When was the last time that you spoke to a stranger? In a world full of machines working fast-food jobs and headphones to block out conversations, we as a specieshave made it extremely easy for ourselves to avoid unwanted conversation. However, this has led to what NPR names the “loneliness epidemic” — as we isolate ourselves, we lose the connections that make us happy. Throughout this article, we’ll explore the importance of connecting with strangers and t
Anisa Chandra
Jan 65 min read