A look at three stories that all point in the same direction: the Epstein revelations continue to shift as new angles and distractions emerge, Silicon Valley is now openly pushing "digital immortality" and post-death avatars as the next frontier of human control, and excess-death data is forcing fresh questions about what really happened in the Covid era. Together they show how power centres rewrite narratives, experiment with our future, and scramble to manage the truth when their systems start to crack.