The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

I wrote about how and why we became the scapegoat:
www.frieze.com/article/scap...

The US deep state has been detrimental to democracy (think mega donors), press freedom (think Julian Assange), Peace (think countless wars). BUT Trump is not dismantling it for these reasons. He is simply removing all obstacles to his own dictatorship chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-purge-...

it’s even funnier once you consider that taking this thing to a car wash voids the warranty

Berlin looms large in the fecund imaginations of the international Anglophone creative class, so in Baffler no. 77, Alex Cocotas examines the microgenre of expat Berliterature.
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year

recently (serendipitously??) discovered this song about where I grew up, on a day when it feels particularly tough to be living abroad (as part of the normal ebb and flow of things), and, how fitting.

open.spotify.com/track/7pnOJO...

Anyways... Coquitlam!