The details of a proposed “Zombie Voting System” are as follows. As the recovery from an economic crisis begins, workers at firms that received significant financial assistance from the government during the crisis would vote for one of two options: 1. Vote to immediately liquidate the firm they work at, and receive unemployment benefits for longer OR 2. Vote not to liquidate, and the government would inject some more cash to make the company viable and help pay off its remaining debts. But if it subsequently were to fail (go bankrupt), the workers’ unemployment coverage would be severely curtailed. The choice of option would be determined by a simple majority vote, with all current workers entitled to one vote. 

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is widely considered a central authority on defining mental health diagnoses recognized by healthcare stakeholders (doctors, hospitals, insurance, etc.) Prior to 2022, the DSM had no inclusion of specific diagnosis criteria regarding Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). In 2022, specific diagnostic criteria for PGD were added, which consist of frequent symptoms of loss causing disruption to day-to-day activity, including intense yearning for the deceased or preoccupation with loss 12+ months after a traumatic event. Since the addition of these criteria to the DSM, physicians have begun diagnosing PGD, with some studies showing diagnostic rates as high as 40% among patients who have suffered traumatic loss. 

Peak globalization is a theoretical point at which the trend toward more integrated world economies reverses or halts.

In the TrustHuman system, people can submit a numerical review of their interactions with others. Every person then has a personal ‘rating’, with a weighted system where long-term interactions are weighed more than short-term interactions (e.g. a review from one’s long term partner would have a larger effect than a review from a waiter in a restaurant one has visited once). People are allowed to change their rating of others if circumstances change, and you can only rate people you have personally interacted with. Everyone’s overall rating is publicly accessible, but one cannot access each individual rating. Each person’s rating is only accessible once there is a sufficient number of reviews.

“Atomic communitarianism” refers to a system of government in which the state is divided into semiautonomous zones, organized on the basis of political philosophy. For example, an atomic communitarian civilization might be composed of a libertarian community with a fully deregulated economy and low taxes, a community that is functionally a Scandinavian-style social democracy, an anarcho-primitivist community where people live in a state of nature with no laws, and more. Each community contributes financially to a central government and military force, whose only duties are to prevent communities from causing harm to each other, ensuring freedom to move from one community to another, and preventing unwanted ideological contamination (e.g., keeping televisions and cell phones out of the anarcho-primitivist community, or keeping explicit media out of the fundamentalist Christian community). The central government would allow each community to submit an information package on its values, which would be distributed to every 18-year old. 

Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing the D.C. election subversion trial for Donald Trump, is currently evaluating a request by a media coalition to televise the trial. In this request, media members have referred to the trial as the most consequential trial in American history.