Monoculture is dead, and the halftime shows that dominated this past weekend proved it. Mini-cultures don't need to grow into a new monoculture, but the world is struggling with how to celebrate collective coexistence. Matt Zeigler breaks down why Bad Bunny's celebration of mini-cultures resonated with 128 million viewers - while the alternative strategy collapsed.

Political reframing happens fast. After Minneapolis, immigration enforcement shifted from crisis tool to violence perpetrator in days. But Panoptica's Storyboards reveal something riskier still: a baseline belief about policing that's not collapsing, just currently abandoned. When the view on "police as public servants" sits ignored instead of contested, you get enforcement without legitimacy, and that's how institutional credibility gaps widen.

Deepfake concerns hit a historic high in our Panoptica Storyboards this January. But this wasn't based on a theoretical warning or concern - by late December 2025, a surge in non-consensual sexual imagery was being generated at scale by users of Grok's "Spicy" mode. The gap between threat and crisis collapsed overnight stirring a regulatory backlash against xAI that's still developing. Here's what happened when the safeguards companies claimed to have built revealed themselves as choices they'd simply chosen to make.

The 4% rule is hitting its highest storyboard signal in a decade right now. Matt Zeigler distinguishes between Rules of Thumb (inherited statistics) and Rules of Big Toe (hard-won lessons from real volatility and client experience). The second kind is messier, less statistically defensible - and absolutely differentiating for anyone looking to separate themselves from the herd when the market finally stops cooperating.

The US is waging an AI war. The problem is, China doesn’t seem to be fighting back. Matt Zeigler examines how narrative shapes capital allocation, drawing on conversations with Ben Hunt and Louis‑Vincent Gave to show why the stories we tell ourselves about competition can matter more than what’s actually happening.

Mike Green published a piece redefining the poverty line at $140k. Some people debated his math. A lot of people just said "he used AI" and moved on. Watch how institutions dodge uncomfortable questions - not by winning the argument, but by telling a story that spreads faster.