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Issue No. 054  ·  July 2, 2026

TIME UNDER TENSION IN THE AGE OF AGENTS

Nature says the deskilling has already started, and the friction we're outsourcing may be the friction that made us. Anthropic ships Sonnet 5 as a cheap agentic default while Ha...

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TIME UNDER TENSION IN THE AGE OF AGENTS
Issue No. 053  ·  July 1, 2026

THE BOOS, THE BOTS, AND THE BYSTANDER

Human weight: crowds, unions, and graduates keep saying no — to Vancouver's data centres, to screens for small kids, to the credentialed pep talk about inevitable AI. Robot weig...

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Issue No. 052  ·  June 30, 2026

WHO STILL HOLDS THE PEN

Dave Eggers warns that letting a machine think for you cooks the species, graduates boo AI from the commencement podium, and a California city votes its data center off the map....

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Issue No. 051  ·  June 29, 2026

WHO STILL OWNS THE THINKING

Teachers worry students are losing the habit of thinking for themselves, towns are voting data centers down, and teen mental-health chatbots are failing in plain sight. Meanwhil...

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