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Why Don’t We Hear About AI Data Centre Issues In China?

Why Don’t We Hear About AI Data Centre Issues In China?

Barry Gander·BARRY’s Substack·August 20269.0(2)

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Why Don’t We Hear About AI Data Centre Issues In China?

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Janus Rose·The Verge·September 2026

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Books and Screens

Books and Screens

Carlo Iacono·Aeon

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Forgive the Bad Texters

Forgive the Bad Texters

Julie Beck·The Atlantic·October 2026

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How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough

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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

Sam Kriss·Numb at the Lodge

·February 2026

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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

William Langewiesche·The Atlantic·June 2019

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How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough

Gideon Lewis-Kraus·The New Yorker·October 2026

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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex

Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex

Kate Knibbs·Wired·September 2026

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts

Joseph Cox·404 Media·September 2026

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A rural Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.

A rural Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.

Julia Tilton&The Daily Yonder·Grist·September 2026

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Jake Pearson&Chris Alcantara·ProPublica·September 2026

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

Jason Koebler·404 Media·September 2026

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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

Janus Rose·The Verge·September 2026

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·May 2026

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

Ryan Moulton·Ryan Moulton's Articles·June 2026

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What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

Investigative Journalism

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

William Langewiesche·The Atlantic·June 2019

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13 Ways of Looking: Lauren Markham

13 Ways of Looking: Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham·Pioneer Works·February 2025

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Columbia's Last Flight

Investigative Journalism

Columbia's Last Flight

William Langewiesche·The Atlantic·November 2003

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Child’s Play

Child’s Play

Sam Kriss·Harper's Magazine·March 2026

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Who Owns the Internet?

Who Owns the Internet?

Elizabeth Kolbert·The New Yorker·August 2017

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Why Don’t We Hear About AI Data Centre Issues In China?

Why Don’t We Hear About AI Data Centre Issues In China?

Barry Gander·BARRY’s Substack·August 2026

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Mysterious Case of JetBlue Plane That Went Into Free Fall

Mysterious Case of JetBlue Plane That Went Into Free Fall

Jeff Wise·Intelligencer·August 2026

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

Michael H. Keller&Eli Murray&Danielle Ivory&Irineo Cabreros·The New York Times·June 2026

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Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help

Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help

Maxi Heitmayer·The New York Times·September 2026

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The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Oliver Sacks·The New Yorker·February 2019

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Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence

Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence

Burkhard Bilger·The New Yorker·March 2026

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Silicon Valley Circuits

Silicon Valley Circuits

Hua Hsu·Places Journal·July 2026

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Goodbye to San Francisco, the City that Can't Be Left

Goodbye to San Francisco, the City that Can't Be Left

Holly Brickley·Off Assignment·July 2025

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Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind

Beyond the ‘Matrix’ Theory of the Mind

Ezra Klein·The New York Times·May 2023

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If Google Kills News Media, Who Will Feed the AI Beast?

If Google Kills News Media, Who Will Feed the AI Beast?

Nick Bilton·Vanity Fair·June 2024

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As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

Alex Beattie·The Conversation·October 2025

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How Big Tech killed literary culture

How Big Tech killed literary culture

Nicholas Carr·UnHerd·January 2026

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You’re Getting ‘Screen Time’ Wrong

You’re Getting ‘Screen Time’ Wrong

Ian Bogost·The Atlantic·October 2025

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