The loudest thing in Yanzhong Huang’s column isn’t the warning about Chinese overconfidence. It’s the quiet assumption that the wheel…
Category: Alexandra Kitty
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Paper Crowns: How Middle-Class Admin Turn Public Institutions into Leadership LARPs
There is a specific kind of institutional failure that does not arrive suddenly. It accumulates. It is staffed by people…
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Four Ontario Colleges: An Institutional Culture Typology
Purpose and Method This document codifies observed institutional traits across four Ontario colleges into a provisional typology. The primary data…
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No, Meta isn’t “dying.” It has become mundane. That’s more dangerous.
Meta isn’t dying; it’s graduated. It has quietly shifted from “hot platform” to “annoying but unavoidable infrastructure,” and that reality…
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Conestoga College: The Culture Behind the Collapse
An AK column companion piece, May 2026 Beyond the Headlines By May 2026, the story of Conestoga College’s fall had…
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If You Don’t Win, You Don’t Play
Canada’s lottery system had a slogan that is almost poetic in its optimism: if you don’t play, you don’t win. The…
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AI Fangirl with Footnotes: A Manifesto for Loving the Tools Without Joining the Cult
I like AI. I like it the way I like a good research library: because it gives me access to…
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The Emotional Economy of “I Already Know”
Tech culture doesn’t just sell products. It sells a feeling: the warm, narcotic glow of believing you “already know” what’s…