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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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La Ballade Des Gens Qui Sont Nés Quelque Part de su album Fernande de 1972 — more ›
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Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2024/11/02/this-black-fungus-might-be-healing-chernobyl-by-drinking-radiation-a-biologist-explains/ more ›
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Toward a better future with Lean Ethereum, The Trustless Manifesto, and lowercase snarks. https://www.bankless.com/ethereums-manhattan-project more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/m6W01fX “There’s something very spiritually dark about the internet,” the author Paul Kingsnorth tells Ross Douthat in this week’s episode of “Interesting Times.” Kingsnorth warns against the expanding presence of technology in our lives and declares it “the war… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CeEX49t Last month, during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the United States had offered to functionally loan Argentina $20 billion. Despite the sums involved, this bailout required no authorization from Congress,… more ›
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British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana’s Asante Kingdom https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/private-collectors-return-of-artefacts-to-ghana-highlights-uks-inaction-on-restitution-heritage-experts-say?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=acacae721e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_11_07_10_51_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-5c0240b3a5-62187982 more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/HXT4xur This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The Rot Economy, and the destruction of modern tech platforms, moderated… more ›