How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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The Pinault Collection’s electrifying group show unites painting and sculpture around the theme of illumination https://www.ft.com/content/7fd5e7c8-1b08-49a1-af2c-49647df0a410?syn-25a6b1a6=1 more ›
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Run the Jewels live concert footage. RTJX Shows celebrating 10 years of Run the Jewels Day 2: Run the Jewels 2 album played in its entirety plus a second set spanning their career. 2023-10-12 Hollywood Palladium Los Angeles, CA — more ›
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Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit. https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/#hello-nano-banana more ›
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An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT. https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ more ›
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A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/03/03/journalists-you-should-be-looking-for-undocumented-apis-heres-how-to-start more ›
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We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. … https://thenextweb.com/news/the-most-radical-act-in-an-age-of-outrage-is-to-play more ›
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A tree does not exist in order to produce lumber. You can make lumber from it, and good lumber is nothing to sneer at. But if you look at a tree and see only lumber, you have missed what is… more ›
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Kyrgyzstan has become a de facto “crypto corridor” linking sanctioned Russian flows with trade in Central Asia and supply chains from China. https://thediplomat.com/2026/04/welcome-to-cryptostan-kyrgyzstan-and-the-emerging-crypto-corridor/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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With an 800% increase in its balance sheet since 2005, OCP is more than a mining company; it leads Morocco’s industrial and diplomatic push on the continent. https://www.theafricareport.com/409253/the-phosphates-king-how-mostafa-terrab-turned-a-failing-giant-into-a-fertiliser-juggernaut/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›