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Subscribe FreeThey Say You Can't Stop Progress. Here's What Progress Is Actually Costing Us.
A Cancel Clankers breakdown of the strongest arguments for the AI buildout — and why they don't hold up the way you've been told. STAY HUMAN · EST. 2026 There
The Hidden Cost of the Machine: What Data Centers, AI, and Robotics Are Doing to America's Communities and Workforce
A research-backed examination of the structural concerns shaping the next decade of the American economy. Introduction The AI revolution is being built on physical infrastructure — millions of square feet of data centers
The Case Against the Humanoid Future
There is a serious version of the optimist case for humanoid robotics, and it deserves a serious answer.
They're Not Scared of Violence. They're Scared of Democracy.
The federal government just created a new threat category for people who don't want a data center in their backyard. WIRED dropped a piece today. Documents obtained by the magazine
Ten Lies in the Pitch Deck.
The humanoid-robot industry has a script. These are the ten lines you'll hear most this year — and what they leave out. The lines come back word for word because the
The Rule Writes the Contract.
A union president put on a Kill NAFTA T-shirt this week. The argument people were making in 1993 is the same one he is making about AI. On Thursday, May 21, 2026,
Bob, Frank, and Gary Worked Thirty Hours Straight.
A Wall Street analyst dared a humanoid CEO to prove his robots could work a shift. By Friday they had worked three. The audience gave them names. On Wednesday, May 13, at
Eight Hours. The Bar Just Fell
A Wall Street diligence director dared a humanoid CEO to prove the central commercial claim of the sector on camera. He pulled it off, and the deployment clock just started running. Yesterday
Six CEOs. One Answer.
In sixteen days, six American CEOs decided the same thing. One didn't. The math was the same in every boardroom. On Thursday, May 7, two CEOs of two unrelated public