2024 hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing so far. Japan’s devastating earthquake… Both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war continue… The continued rise of the far-right (despite some positive respite with the recent UK and French elections)… The death of Alexei Navalny… And let’s not forget quite how bad Madame Web was and that Kayne West is still releasing music. We could go on, and we’ve still got the “two old men in an old man war” US election to look forward to, as well as the ongoing threat of increasingly powerful AI models spreading beyond the control of human…