WASHINGTON D.C. — In a landmark development that sent shockwaves through Middle Eastern diplomacy and the global shipping industry, the United States and Iran announced a framework agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, ending a thirteen-month military standoff that had paralyzed one-third of the world's maritime oil traffic.
The ceasefire was celebrated by markets, governments, and humanitarian organizations worldwide.
It was celebrated by no one at the headquarters of Waze Navigation Systems in San Jose, California, where the servers were still optimizing.
Within four hours of the official announcement, Waze had begun issuing a torrent of routing
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I came to Toronto for the FAT S/S 2026 previews and, through a series of events now preserved in at least one municipal incident report, stayed three weeks longer than any person of taste should stay anywhere that sells poutine at 2 AM. Takes a long pull of the Hazelton's exceptionally decent Negroni. The productive part of that extended sentence was Silas Vance.
Which is not something I expected to write.
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I did not intend to know anything about Toronto. That was not the arrangement. The arrangement was: attend Fashion Art Toronto, file the requisite piece dripping with diplomatic disdain, and leave within seventy-two hours for somewhere with a better aperitivo hour and fewer people who ask me what my sign is before offering me
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Scott Meadow — Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and the man who has apparently decided that my suffering is a renewable resource he has not yet been taxed on — called me on a Thursday. Not an email. A call. At 7 in the morning.
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I know this because the walls of this particular property are
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