I’ve been feeding these machines—AI, code, silicon ghosts—with thoughts. Some mine, some borrowed, some stitched from the long cloth of human doubt. Then I tossed in a question like a final coin in an old wishing well: Do we have a duty to publish truth? The machine did what machines do best: sifted the scatter, …
I have to admit the fossil fuel industry did a fantastic job preventing action that could have been taken decades ago. In a recent interview Professor David Suzuki was asked whether he thought it is now too late? He replied it is, and now the question is what to do about it? Going on the …
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The ferry pulled away from the Belgian coast with that low industrial moan ships make when they’re leaving something behind. I stood out on the deck where the wind knifed across the rails and the gulls circled like scraps of torn paper. Ostend was already shrinking into the haze, the flat land folding into itself …
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