JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily
JPM Predicts Global AI Data Centers Will Consume 681 Olympic-Sized Pools Of Fresh Water Daily Wall Street banks are in a frenzy over “The Next AI Trade,” piling into the ‘Powering up America’ investment themes, whether that’s power grid companies, commodities, such as copper, gold, silver, and uranium, and artificial intelligence chipmakers, to accommodate the explosion of generative artificial intelligence […]
The Incoming Commercial Real Estate Crisis No One Seems Prepared For
The Incoming Commercial Real Estate Crisis No One Seems Prepared For ‘I think that there’s more to come,’ said Peter Earle, research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. It has been a year since a string of U.S. regional bank failures, together with the collapse of global heavyweight Credit Suisse, caused many to […]
Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe
Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe Things appear no better this week on WWIII’s European front. That unelected worm, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at a Monday May 13th meeting of the Policy Exchange think tank, actually stated: [If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, UK] might be next, [adding that Moscow’s] recklessness has taken us closer to a dangerous nuclear […]
Ecological Disruption and Militarization of Antarctica Will Push the Planet Closer to Tipping Points
Ecological Disruption and Militarization of Antarctica Will Push the Planet Closer to Tipping Points Antarctica, a continent about 40% larger than Europe in area, has also been called the world’s largest desert and the coldest, windiest, loneliest continent. Such descriptions do not exactly make this the most attractive continent, but in keeping with our times, those […]
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior”
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior” If you’re tired of censorship and surveillance, join Reclaim The Net. The European Parliament (EP) elections are taking place next month and, considering that the president of the European Commission (effectively, “the EU government”) and all its commissioners are confirmed by the EP, no […]
Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places
Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places Think like a thief… A marketing email just came from Michael Major, author of a book called No Grid Survival Projects, on where NOT to hide your valuables. His ideas are sometimes counterintuitive, which makes them potentially useful: 9 Hiding Spots In Your House Where Looters Always Look First […]
AP Condemns Israeli Raid, Seizure of Broadcast Equipment
AP Condemns Israeli Raid, Seizure of Broadcast Equipment Israeli authorities conducted a raid on the premises of The Associated Press, based in the southern town of Sderot, where they confiscated broadcasting equipment and a camera on Tuesday. Israeli officials justify their enforcement action, claiming infringements of the country’s recent ban on Al Jazeera, of which […]
China Just Dumped the Largest Amount of U.S. Debt in History
China Just Dumped the Largest Amount of U.S. Debt in History Dropping It Like a Hot Potato, the Lowest level of U.S. Debt Ownership in Decades, Not Just a “China-Leaning” Countries Problem At this point, the government is completely and totally bankrupt. It’s like Wile E. Coyote that’s walked off a cliff, but doesn’t really […]
2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics
2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another? Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to “prove you’re human” and they seem to be getting more complex all the […]
Biospheric Cognition
Biospheric Cognition and biospheric awakening If we are going to nurture into being an ecological civilization, or an ecological culture, we’re going to require what in this writing I will call “biospheric cognition”. Cambridge Cognition offers a limited and insufficient first stab at defining cognition here.: “Cognition is defined as ‘the mental action or process of […]
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning “Way crueler than any dictatorship” I keep a “creeping fascism” file with the intention of tracking governments’ erosion of their citizens’ rights and freedoms. But the file is filling up so fast that the first few articles in this series will have to be “data-dump” cut-and-past jobs rather […]
The Role of Energy in Production
The Role of Energy in Production Chapter 13 from my forthcoming book Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down Human society is energy blind. Like a fish in water, it takes for granted the existence of that without which it could not survive. This is Chapter 13 from my forthcoming book Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down, […]
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization
Reaching the end of offshored industrialization Moving industrialization offshore can look like a good idea at first. But as fossil fuel energy supplies deplete, this strategy works less well. Countries doing the mining and manufacturing may be less interested in trading. Also, the broken supply lines of 2020 and 2021 showed that transferring major industries […]
“Gain of Function” and Influenza A Virus
“Gain of Function” and Influenza A Virus The two have been intertwined for decades. Cover art, “Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research, Summary of a Workshop (2015)” On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the […]
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina Today’s eclectic article has to do with new developments that have popped up recently, reiterating issues I have brought up previously, sometimes repeatedly. One of these things has to do with who and what we are as a species. This differs […]
