No Artificial Intelligence executive is publishing long manifestoes on how to resolve the backlash against the data center buildout. This is a problem Silicon Valley does not know how to solve. The backlash would not matter if progress in machine intelligence rested solely on a steady diet of capital. But it also requires land — land for the supercomputers powering the industry’s A.I. agents and land for the electric plants powering these computers.
~ Tanner Greer via The New York Times
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via The New York Times:
I’ve Photographed Protests Around the World. This Still Surprises Me.
by Matthew Connors
published on April 23, 2026
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
Society tends to peg the “birth” of a new technology as the point when it becomes readily usable. By that measure, generative artificial intelligence was “born” with the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Public engagement with generative AI is therefore less than four years old. In that time, it has amassed more than a billion users, and the companies selling AI technology have come to dominate the headlines, the stock market, and public consciousness.
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The iPhone 7 was released today – September 16 – in 2016.
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America’s old republic was born of rebellion against Britain’s more ancient monarchy. Yet, by strange fate, the passage of time has only joined America and Britain more closely together in war and peace.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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