Teaser ... What is Bob doing in Qatar? ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Why Yeats felt this way ... Peter Thiel's Antichrist theory ... Nikita: COVID was a weird time, and nothing has been the same since ... Why Bob feels things are falling apart ... Were things ever in order? ... "Inner emigration": tuning out the world as self-care ... A reaction to a drone strike: "Loud noises don't wake me up" ... Young people are turning away from social media ... When Spain lost all power and cellular coverage ... War as a "major inconvenience" ... Bob's prediction about Ukraine's future retaliation for Pokrovsk ... Nikita's impressions from Europe ... Nonzero Reading Club THIS SATURDAY: Norbert Wiener's God & Golem, Inc. ... Deepfakes and the future of news ... Russia's first humanoid robot falls down ...