The Importance of Third Spaces
By: Anisa Chandra Where do you spend the majority of your time? For many of us, we have what psychologists call a ‘first space’ and a ‘second space’ — the two places where we spend most of our time. Oftentimes, our first space is our home, or place of residence, while our second space is where we work. But with this framework comes the question of third spaces: places where we’re able to create community and feel accepted, but are neither at home nor at work (take, for exampl
Anisa Chandra
3 hours ago5 min read
The Extent to Which We Should Go to Help Another
By: Anisa Chandra What is the furthest extent we should go to in order to help someone else? If it’s our duty to give up our seat to an elderly person, is it also our duty to help children in third-world countries by giving them opportunities for a better life? Why? As the global situation gets increasingly worse — there’s mass genocides in a variety of countries, we’re facing a global water shortage, and the job market is becoming distorted due to the influence of AI — this
Anisa Chandra
3 hours ago5 min read
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
Mar 102 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