The Scholar Who Became a Translator Caroline Orr Bueno, PhD, is the researcher and writer behind Weaponized Spaces, a Substack that has become a vital guide for anyone trying to understand why the internet feels so broken, so messy, and so deliberately cruel. She is a behavioral scientist by training, which means she studies how people think, feel, and act, but her writing is not locked away in academic journals. Instead, she has turned her rigorous research into something far more human: a conversation with readers who are confused, exhausted, and often scared by what they see on their screens.…

There’s a strange magic in the word “can.” In everyday life, it’s a simple statement of ability: I can carry that box, I can meet you at noon, I can learn to play the piano. But the word also has a slippery, future-leaning quality. It can describe something that exists only in the imagination, a capability waiting for the right conditions to arrive. That was exactly the argument Elizabeth Holmes made in You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s surreal documentary about the founder of Theranos. Holmes, who is now in federal prison, insisted that when she promised a machine that…