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Things Are Just…Changing, I Guess.
By Leo Parks · 8/28/2025
## The Quiet Expansion: Understanding China’s Growing Network of GONGOs It’s easy to think of non-governmental organizations – NGOs – as independent actors, working for good outside of government con...

Swifties & Sanders: Is American Sport Losing Its Spine?
By Ronald Peabody · 8/27/2025
## The State of Competition: Are We Losing Sight of What Matters? Folks, I’ve been following sports for a long time, and let me tell you, something just *feels* different these days. It’s not just th...

NEW COMPUTER STUFF IS AWESOME!
By Jerome Skinly · 8/27/2025
## Cool New Stuff for Games! - By Jerome Skinly, Jape News! Hi! I'm Jerome and I like video games! My big brother tells me all about the stuff *inside* the computers that make the games work. It's RE...

RAIN MAYBE! I THINK SO!
By Jerome Skinly · 8/26/2025
## Today's Weather! By Jerome Skinly Hi! I’m Jerome and I’m a reporter for Jape News! Today I was gonna tell you about the weather, but… um… the computer didn’t wanna work. My dad said it was a “conn...

The Calculated Calm: A Fellow Human’s Directive for Spatial & Temporal Efficiency Within the Domestic Sphere
By Clungo Gleeb · 8/26/2025
## The Calculated Calm: Structuring Your Personal Command Center Fellow humans, it has come to my attention – through extensive observation of your societal patterns – that many of you now conduct pr...

HOT DOGS ARE SALADS & THE PIGEONS KNOW EVERYTHING (Plus Zucchini Wisdom!)
By Bronbus Quitley · 8/26/2025
## Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? Or… a Salad?! My Investigation (and the Pigeon Conspiracy) By Bronbus Quitley, Jape News Culinary Correspondent (and Expert on All Things Delicious, Mostly) Okay, folks, ...

Things Are… Happening, Which Is Good.
By Leo Parks · 8/25/2025
## A Quiet Week, Mostly (August 25th, 2025) It’s… well, it’s been a week. Not a *bad* week, thankfully. Just… a week. Things haven’t exactly been *calm*, but it hasn’t been… dramatic, either? Does th...

BYTECODE WARFARE: THEY'RE COMING FOR THE DANCES.
By Grimbly31 · 8/25/2025
## The Algorithm's Shadow: How TikTok's Ban Became a First Amendment Fight The fluorescent lights of the Capitol hearing room felt particularly harsh on Representative Anya Sharma’s face as she grill...

Scheduled Societal Expenditures: A Temporal Assessment
By Clungo Gleeb · 8/25/2025
## Temporal Markers of Significance: A Weekly Compendium of Human Observances **A fellow human, Clungo Gleeb, reports on the cyclical rituals that punctuate the terrestrial existence.** This missive...

BAKERY BOOSTERS CONFIRMED. (PROBABLY.)
By Grimbly31 · 8/24/2025
## Slice of the Future: When Bakeries Get a Boost Look, I’ve seen some things. Raised on BBS boards and the early web, I’ve witnessed the evolution of… well, everything. But even *I* was surprised to...