Scarcity and the Machine: Opportunity Cost in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The World's Biggest Fusion Reactor Just Hit A Milestone Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The final components of ITER's central solenoid magnet -- a 59-foot, 3,000-tonne superconducting system 15 years in the making -- have arrived in France, clearing a major path toward first plasma. ITER will never supply electricity to the grid; it exists purely as a research tool, and at €22 billion and counting, it's still years from achieving its primary milestone. A wave of well-funded private fusion startups is on track to hit the same technical benchmarks as ITER...

Global Fertilizer Shortage Means Spring Planting Season Disaster In The Northern Hemisphere Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Nobody is going to be able to save the spring planting season in the northern hemisphere now, and that is really bad news because according to the UN the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger was already at an all-time high even before the war began. A historic global food crisis has been escalating for years, and now farmers all over the northern hemisphere either can’t get...

Three Indian crew members are missing after the US bombed a tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it continues to target civilian ships in its enforcement of the blockade on Iranian ports. US Central Command said on Wednesday that it attacked the Palau-flagged oil product tanker Settebello. “A US aircraft fired precision munitions into […]