Opinion by Javier Lozano 'Dead Internet Theory' text by IlluminatiPirate In 2016, a theory about “the death of the internet” gained notoriety on a virtual forum called Wizardchan, where multiple anonymous users joined a post published by IlluminatiPirate to discuss the possibility that the internet was slowly fading away. Despite how ominous the idea may seem, and how exaggerated the notion of “the death of the internet” might sound, the reality is that it represents a logica

André Escobar-Linares . Toronto, February 2026. Human beings are intimately bound to fire. We understood its nature and its radical capacities: both destroyer and catalyst. Since its discovery, we stopped chewing food for hours and walking for weeks to deliver a message; we began to fly, to leave the planet. But in my opinion, the most significant effects of fire on humanity are congregation and the sense of service. This created the terrain where cooking flourished. I decide