Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
A new climate sighting plus AI fakery.
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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
Read more...These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
Read more...What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
Marion Nestle has been the essential guide to our “food system” (one trillion dollars a year) in the United States for a long time. Her work is relevant in other such as the United Kingdom that lack a robust food culture, for the most part because it was killed by the food system, not because […]
Read more...Is AI Creating Monsters?
More troubling new sightings on the AI front.
Read more...Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
AI is following the same trajectory as the dot-com bubble.
Read more...How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown
Did COVID-19 deepen the crises of capitalism and inject a sense of panic into the world’s power struggles?
Read more...Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Data agreements are replacing armies as tools of colonialism and the return of external governance
Read more...What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.
Read more...AI’s Errors May Be Impossible to Eliminate – What That Means for Its Use in Health Care
Even with concerns about using AI in medicine, proponents contend doctors can properly oversee its use. Is that realistic?
Read more...The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
A detailed discussion of how AI data-center investment boom is soking a societally and financially costly bubble
Read more...Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
Why our elites, starting with the top ranks in the Trump Administration, are disgusting.
Read more...Coffee Break: American Science Shattered
American Science, Shattered. So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News. Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summarize them here as they appear. Unlike most accounts of the current state of science in the United States, the authors of this article have found scientists who […]
Read more...The Anti-MAGA Economics of the Second Trump Administration
How Trump has defaulted on his MAGA promises.
Read more...Internet of Beings: The Dream of Digitising Human Bodies for Healthcare (and the Nightmare)
The logical conclusion of the intensive health monitoring fad: an internet of beings of continuous tracking and daily intervention.
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