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“Across Silicon Valley, the mismatch between AI capability and macro impact has become a kind of koan: Intelligence is not the bottleneck. Presumably, that goes not just for the possibility of A.I. superabundance but for the prospect of doom as well.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/m...

“By any concrete measure, the country threw more at the project of building AGI than it had at anything in many decades. And today the number of Americans who believe A.I. is moving too fast outnumber those who believe it is moving too slow by 33 to 1.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...

Three quarters of the country now opposes data center construction. The coalition may be messy, the conviction somewhat thin for many. But we see mass politics like this so infrequently nowadays that we almost don’t know how to make sense of it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opi…

The most important thing about the data center backlash is that, in a time of intense polarization and micro-movements, it is astonishingly large—such a big tent mass politics that any time you try and an atomize or explain it you end up diminishing it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opi…

“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible.” open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...