You can be forgiven for rolling your eyes when the subject of "digital sovereignty" comes up. Rhetorically, "digital sovereignty" is a coded way for a politician to say, "We should build a fuckton of AI data-centers while bypassing any environmental review": datacentremagazine.com/technology-a...

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Say what you will about this method, but it is decisive: if you remove a vertical member and nothing falls down, you can be pretty sure that wasn't a load-bearing member. (This is a metaphor about AI.)

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More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history.

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The climate fiction book club I frequent selected Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad for October. The story spans hundreds of years and weaves together threads that start in the 1600s and extend into a future Krungthep inundated by sea level rise. psudbanthad.com/index.php/ba...

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People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

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