Thought Provokers: Week of 7/15/2026

Any articulate person whose personal lexicon exceeds a fifth-grade reading level will be accused of being a bot or using AI. It’s already happening: The Great Regression.

Insect populations are collapsing around the world, which has dire consequences for agriculture and the natural order.

Healthcare will be essentially out of reach for a large proportion of Americans soon

ALL of the Beech trees and ALL of the Ash trees in North America will be dead or dying within 15-20 years. The country will look very, very different.

The dead internet theory holds that once AI becomes so good we can’t tell...