Data Centers Are Sending Global Electricity Demand Soaring
The International Energy Agency forecasts that data center demand for energy will more than double by 2026, with AI the big driver.
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Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
Outside his family., friends, and close colleagues, not many tears are being shed over the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.
Read more...How Right-Wing Media Is Like Improv Theater
New establishment sore-loserdom: trying to discredit right-wing messaging as like comedy theater, when the joke was running Kamala.
Read more...Experiencing Natural Disasters Increases Partisan Disagreement on Climate Change
Those experiencing a climate-change-induced disaster wind up having more polarized beliefs about the role of human action.
Read more...NATO Pledges Urgent Support for Ukraine’s Battered Infrastructure
NATO messaging about “helping” Ukraine is become even more divorced from reality.
Read more...Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Read more...Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics
On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority
Read more...Affordability of Long-Term Care Systems in Times of Rapid Population Ageing
As the private long-term care industry in the US comes under more visible stress, a 32-nation look at the success of public programs
Read more...Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
A wide-ranging overview of the truce in Lebanon and what might come next.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Tries “Recovery Finally Underway” Office Space Patter as Securitized Office Mortgage Delinquencies Hit a New Post-Crisis High of 10.4%
The Journal gets egg on its face for trying to call a bottom in the office space market even as delinquencies were accelerating
Read more...Trump Threatens BRICS Countries With 100% Tariffs if They Ditch the Dollar
Why Trump’s dedollarization tariff threat is much more bark than bite.
Read more...Self-Censorship and the Ad Hominem Inference
Identifying a key mechanism that fosters self censorship.
Read more...Nissan in Crisis, “12 or 14 Months to Survive,” as Size, Difficult Conditions for Non-China Carmakers Make Rescue Seem Remote
Nissan, with intensifying cash flow woes and vultures circling, looks like a canary in the coal mine for non-China carmakers.
Read more...Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16
The COP16 biodiversity conference included Big Tech pushing black box “generative biology” AI-created DNA and related financial markets
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