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The regulatory capture is already advanced: AI-related investments accounted for [thirty-nine percent of US economic growth](https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/jan/tracking-ai-contribution-gdp-growt) in the first three quarters of 2025, giving the federal government a vested interest in sustaining the boom.
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
In fact, attention is of value only insofar as it is paid in the proper discharge of an obligation. To pay attention is to come into the presence of a subject. In one of its root senses, it is to ‘stretch toward’ a subject, in a kind of aspiration. We speak of ‘paying attention’ because of a correct perception that attention is owed – that without our attention and our attending, our subjects, including ourselves, are endangered.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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