Metaverse And Samurai

I Fed The People Building The Metaverse

Titty Boobowitz | 29th May 2026

Former pastry chef at a Meta data centre recalls her time making baked goods for the people trying to build Mark Zuckerberg's "digital universe". The campus was "obnoxiously sterile" and everything — hundreds of breakfast pastries, two daily lunchtime desserts, warm cookies to restock all the jars, twice-weekly bread — had to be made from scratch. It was a bad, offensively ordinary workplace (2,200 words)

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Samurai City

Samuel Hughes | Works In Progress | 2nd June 2026

How did Japan avoid civil war between 1600 and 1868, the years of the Shogunate? Instead, almost three centuries of peace and social stability prevailed. In part, the ruling Tokugawa family achieved this by keeping most of their possible rivals, members of the elite class, stuck in the same city for most of the year. Edo, now Tokyo, was simultaneously the apex of the social world, and a prison (2,500 words)