Environmental impact

Energy and water use, mineral extraction, compute footprint, and energy colonialism.

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The pause and the questionnaire

The week the frontier announced it would slow down and the market did the arithmetic, while UNESCO presented a readiness questionnaire in Riyadh: two ways of governing the same …

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Two ninety-nine

The week OpenAI released the model it had halted for being dangerous, New York banned what it cannot see, and the detector used to measure how much of the web is AI-written turned …

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A Notice Pinned to a Locked Door

The week protecting minors meant identifying every adult, a philosophy journal banned what it cannot detect, and Amazon finished scanning the books it then throws away.

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Pax Silica

The week the United States asked thirty-five countries to pick a side, and the week both sides stopped for the same reason, for the same two weeks, entirely on their own say-so.