Why You Should Expect an AI Crash(economist.com)

53 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 30 comments

An Economist leader article arguing that an AI investment crash is likely; the page loaded as an access-restricted bot-detection screen.

Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia(economist.com)

422 points by edward 4 days ago | 411 comments

An Economist culture article arguing humans will never again build a collaborative project like Wikipedia; the capture shows a bot-detection access block.

Europe has been living beyond its means. Now the bills are due(economist.com)

11 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 2 comments

Economist article on Europe living beyond its means and facing fiscal bills; the captured page is an access-restricted bot-detection block.

Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters(economist.com)

99 points by ddp26 1 month ago | 87 comments

The evolution of effective altruism(economist.com)

53 points by bazzmt 1 month ago | 106 comments

An Economist article on the evolution of effective altruism and how the movement spread; the captured page shows an access-restricted block instead of the article.

Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive(economist.com)

50 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 months ago | 73 comments

Solarpunk is happening in Africa(climatedrift.substack.com)

1103 points by JoiDegn 1 year ago | 536 comments

A Climate Drift Substack essay arguing that Africa is building a solarpunk future by leapfrogging legacy energy infrastructure with distributed solar.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 27 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.

Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System(blog.landeconomics.org)

55 points by surprisetalk 18 days ago | 12 comments

A Progress and Poverty Substack essay by a former Addis Ababa municipal manager reviewing three decades of Ethiopia's public urban land lease system and its reforms.

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)

9 points by gmays 1 month ago | 0 comments

A PDF of the International Energy Agency's 2026 special report on electrification of the global energy system.

Can solar costs keep shrinking?(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

370 points by GoRudy 2 years ago | 557 comments

Tomas Pueyo's Uncharted Territories newsletter post examining whether solar photovoltaic panel costs can continue to decline.

In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults(energytransition.org)

135 points by JumpCrisscross 1 month ago | 123 comments

Energy Transition article by Paul Hockenos on how distributed renewable energy in Ukraine, such as in Mykolaiv, kept services running despite Russian strikes on power plants.