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A site to check ‘Is AI Profitable Yet?’.

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I’ve been running my website Follow the Crypto since 2024, tracking the cryptocurrency industry’s influence on our democracy. The industry spent more than $130 million buying the 2024 elections, and the strategy worked. Pro-crypto politicians have proposed or passed industry-drafted legislation that threatens to open the floodgates to even more predatory crypto products, regulatory agencies were gutted, and crypto executives bought direct access to the President and positions in the White House. Now the artificial intelligence industry is following the same playbook.

I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics

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20 Years Of Podcasting | A Journey Of Conversational Forms

I bought this example of a Audio-Technica 2020 mic twenty years ago and it’s still going strong today. Photo by Axel Mencia on Unsplash On 5th June 2006 I started podcasting and in 2007 I also started video podcasting (back then we were cool and called it vodcasting). During those early new-media-times it was a bit of a wrestle to get things online let alone captured and created. It was a…

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It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health. If these and other measures are taken, the report says 89% of the world population would see their incomes double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C above the preindustrial average. The authors say their vision provides a positive alternative to the grim projections from far-right techno extractivists, nationalists and billionaires who claim the future will inevitably bring more fossil fuels, climate disruption and inequality.

‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival | Environment | The Guardian

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Check out this delightful free font for use in anyway: Shantell Sans.

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#88 May 2026 | Monthly Digital Breadcrumbs

A bunch of things I’ve found on my digital strolls in the past month (which I added to my Tumblr) for your eyes / ears / brain to spend time on (as no longer active on Twitter or on LinkedIn much). READ “What began as preparing for a TEDx Talk slowly became an uncovering of grief, inherited survival patterns, emotional safety, and the parts of myself I had spent years hiding from. This is not…

#88 May 2026 | Monthly Digital Breadcrumbs

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What began as preparing for a TEDx Talk slowly became an uncovering of grief, inherited survival patterns, emotional safety, and the parts of myself I had spent years hiding from. This is not just a reflection about TEDx. It is a reflection about what happens when we begin to truly see ourselves more honestly and the courage it takes to stop abandoning the parts within us that long to feel safe, seen, and whole.

I realised I did not need confidence. I needed safety.

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He once said that his aim was “to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress” and even in 2013, just before his retirement, he was arguing he still had much to do: “People say, ‘Sonny, take it easy, lean back. Your place is secure. You’re the great Sonny Rollins; you’ve got it made.’ I hear that and I think, ‘Well, screw Sonny Rollins. Where I want to go is beyond Sonny Rollins. Way beyond.’”

Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95 | Sonny Rollins | The Guardian

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The reports may throw cold water on the bets tech’s biggest firms have placed on the technology. While some cling to the promise of an AI “renaissance” or “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing or augmenting human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied. That echoes what Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently said in an interview with Axios. “For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” he said.

Microsoft reports expose AI's cost problem: The tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune

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Courageous Leaders Launched | Brave CEO’s Needed

REGISTER NOW for this half-day Wellington-based learning experience on Thu, 6th Aug 2026, 8-11.30am. Each cohort will consist of between 6-10 CE participants and will unpack the following topics over 3 hours: Being Courageous in difficult times Stand in your vision Making Decisions Dynamic Holding space without all the information “Join this brand new ½ day workshop focusing on how CE’s can…

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The Megatons to Megawatts initiative offers many lessons for navigating overlapping crises in a rapidly changing world. The proposition of turning nuclear weapons into low-carbon energy is even more compelling today, given rising electricity demand and the urgent need for decarbonization. But this astonishing success story is largely unknown. It has gone unmentioned in the memoirs of major Cold War figures, and few have heard the name of the man, Thomas Neff, who dreamt up the idea and labored for years behind the scenes to make it a reality.

The Little-Known Nuclear Deal That Could Help Our Climate Crisis