Reading List 03/07/2026

Data centers disconnecting from the grid, solar PV efficiency records, repairs for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Ford’s EV missteps, former OpenAI CTO’s new startup.

Links 3/7/2026

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Big Tech Oversees Itself at Homeland Security

Kristi Noem, just fired from her job as secretary of DHS amid allegations of self-dealing, staffed the department’s AI division with leadership taken directly from a tech company under contract with D

America’s Holy War in Iran

For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as p

The violence of the Librareome Project

Vernor Vinge’s sci-fi novel Rainbows End (2006) is so prescient about AI training data. His short Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) is set in the same universe, and was written in that era where we f

These Are the People in This Neighborhood

Can’t stop, won’t stop. On the heels of the refreshed Rolodex from earlier in the week, I’ve pushed another “Just Enough Social” feature to the site: members bios & profile pics. Here’s what that look

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