Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation
The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
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“We Are Watching Critical Thinking Disappear in Real Time” Due to AI Addiction: 40% of Kids Can’t Read, Teachers Quitting in Droves
How AI and device overstimulation are producing students with severe deficiencies in reasoning and information processing skills.
Read more...The Economist Wrecks Its Limited Credibility in Article on Dark Factories That Ignores That China Already Has a Lot of Them
Time to stop reading The Economist. A story that looks like dark factory denialism completely discredits the magazine.
Read more...Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...Here Comes the Sun: A Way Forward if We Take It?
Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 when he was in his twenties. His book is generally recognized as the first to address what was then called global warming and now more properly labeled AGW, anthropogenic global warming. I read the book when it was released and it made perfect sense to me […]
Read more...New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System
The NYC transit authority considers how AI with its existing cameras might detect weapons, monitor unattended items or even foresee stampedes.
Read more...Is Trump Building a Massive Data Center Beneath the East Wing? If So, Why?
Is the East Wing redo intended to include a massive data center/command installation? If so, what is the main object of concern?
Read more...American Hegemony by AI: The Role of Israel
The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...Dollar Supremacy Strategy or All-Time Grift? American AI Imperialism’s Reliance on the Middle East
Washington plots to ride the AI bubble back to the top—using Persian Gulf capital and energy to get there and make everyone rich along the way—and what this can tell us about war against Venezuela.
Read more...SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale
A primer on SMRs, as in small nuclear reactors, the new bright idea for how to satisfy insatiable AI energy demand.
Read more...Screens and Social Media Are Damaging Kids’ Conversation Skills. Here’s Why This Matters, and How to Get Them Back
Quelle surprise! Smartphone fixation is producing conversation-deficient children.
Read more...AI and Systemic Risk
The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
Read more...Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Unpacking why the US military is so expensive and even if it were less pork-driven, would still be unduly costly for society at large.
Read more...Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
A new climate sighting plus AI fakery.
Read more...Some Perhaps Not Fully Anticipated Effects of Increased AI Use: Evidence Doubts, Fraud and Fraud Containment
Some important second-order effects of greater AI use, such as greater ease of perpetrating fraud and what might responses might be
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