The Problem Isn’t ChatGPT. It’s Us. As a technology, large language models have been ruthless in highlighting the waste and weaknesses of the "knowledge industries."
https://thediplomat.com/2025/0....9/the-problem-isnt-c

Thai Immigration Department Denies Links to Scam Gang Abductions Last week, a Reuters report turned a spotlight on the alleged role of Thai officials in facilitating the trafficking of foreign workers to scam centers in eastern Myanmar.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/0....9/thai-immigration-d

Inside the Fight for Texas’s Most Precious Resource Via Texas Monthly, a look at how – in Texas – elected leaders, rich investors, and small-town residents are stumbling over the same question: Who owns the state’s water? I’m riding shotgun in his battle-tested Chevy Suburban, an actual shotgun rubbing against my left leg, when Bob Sanders tells me that it was water that […]
https://waterpolitics.com/insi....de-the-fight-for-tex

The Impossibly Expensive Plan to Save Texas’s Water Supply Courtesy of Texas Monthly, an article on one potential solution to Texas’s water scarcity crisis: The year is 1969, and revolution is in the air. Protests clog American campuses and streets. Richard Nixon enters the White House on behalf of his “silent majority.” NASA puts men on the moon. And the hippie counterculture threatens to […]
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The Thirsty Dragon: China’s Himalayan Mega-Dam Is A Global Threat Via Nikkei Asia, commentary on China’s planned Himalayan mega-dam – the largest dam ever conceived – symbolizes China’s bid, from oil to water, for 21st-century dominance: China is about to upend the world’s hydrological balance — with consequences as far-reaching as climate change itself. Its $168 billion Himalayan super-dam represents not merely the world’s costliest […]
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