Each week, “Saturday Hashtag” investigates and contextualizes the largely unknown systems that directly influence our lives.
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As this year ends, it has never been more apparent that the systems and entities shaping our lives have grown increasingly more powerful, opaque, and consequential.
From artificial intelligence and private finance to crumbling infrastructure and rising inequality, these forces often operate beyond public view, and their complexity and convoluted origins make them nearly impossible to track.
Each week, “Saturday Hashtag” looked past the distractions to examine the underlying systems, the people in power, and how the future is being built.
Below are the Top 10 Saturday Hashtags of 2025, a snapshot of a year defined by accelerating technology, economic distortion, and institutional strain, revealing not just where we’ve been, but where we’re headed.
Saturday Hashtag: #TechocalypseNow?
I love the smell of unchained AI in the morning — it smells like profits and pandemonium. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #AuthenticityGrift
The network you never heard of. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #NewRealityDiscount
Cheap reality has expensive consequences. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #CorpTaxBreaksAmerica
A $158 trillion crisis breaking America’s back. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #PeterThielDemocracyWar
A billionaire bunker-dweller’s dystopia coming true. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #PrivateFinanceCoup
From bailout manager to shadow empire CEO. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #AIBlackHatOperations
How black-hat tactics are manipulating AI for profit. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #JusticeOnTheRocks
Land of the not-free zone, home of the bravely detained. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #AITelepathyBomb
Machine “telepathy” is here and it killed anonymized data. Read more.
Saturday Hashtag: #MathsDontCare
By the numbers: How 99 percent of Americans are screwed. Read more.