One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
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Costs of Device-Reliant Parenting: Kids Deficient in Empathy and Storytelling Skills, Can’t Read, Show Declining Cognitive Performance
Another disconcerting report on the harm done to kids by device and tech heavy parenting
Read more...Reuters Finds AI-Using Surgery Devices Harmed Patients; Nature Magazine and Reuters Find Medical Chatbots Not Beating Patients’ Own Internet Sleuthing
More reasons to be concerned about the aggressive implementation of AI in medicine.
Read more...The European Veal Pen: How the US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia & Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control of Europe
Can Europe free itself from its capture by the US, which looked like a dandy idea until the US became an openly predatory hegemon?
Read more...Journalism May Be Too Slow To Remain Credible Once Events Are Filtered Through Social Media
Some hand-wringing, as well as blame shifting, as to why social media and independent sites are eating the lunches of mainstream media.
Read more...Why Futuristic, Tech-Centered ‘Smart City’ Projects Are Destined To Fail
Why the smart city idea regular falls short of its hype.
Read more...Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker dissects offensively crazy tech billionaires’ schemes that greenwash their planetary looting.
Read more...Bitcoin/Crypto Crash Captures Headlines as Potentially More Serious Tech-Driven Debt Retreat Progresses
As much fun as it is to watch Bitcoin swoon, a more serious erosion is underway on the big tech borrowing front.
Read more...How Vulnerable is the US Electrical Grid to Winter Outages?
A look at the shaky state of the US electric grid and how it came to be in such sorry shape.
Read more...‘Corruption on a Breathtaking Level’: Report Details Massive Foreign Investment in Trump Crypto Firm
“This was a bribe.”
Read more...Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. What connects them to AI?
Read more...Satyajit Das: Book Essay – Measuring Progress
Carl Benedikt Frey traces the history of technological innovation. But does that constitute progress?
Read more...AI-Induced Cultural Stagnation Is No Longer Speculation − It’s Already Happening
By displacing new content, AI is eroding culture. Add in screen addiction eroding reading and the devaluation of the humanities.
Read more...What Davos 2026 Can Tell Us About the World That Is Coming
Davos 2026 points to a new world order—technocratic, executive and corporate—powered by AI and digital currencies
Read more...The Great AI Displacement: Fracturing Tomorrow’s Labor Market
An industry participant debunks a paper predicting that the labor market effect of AI will be so bright that we will all have to wear shades.
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