The problem with “kid­maxxers” is not just that they’re proto-Nazi eugeni­cists, although they are. These over­paid brag­garts have also com­pletely misun­der­stood the nature of repro­duc­tion.

Faced with con­stant elec­tricity black­outs and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took mat­ters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning

Back in 2017, we did the math to figure out how much oil it takes to mine a single Bitcoin. The answer then was about 20 bar­rels of oil equiv­a­lent per coin. Today it’s closer to 500. But Bitcoin is the warm-up act. The real energy story is arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence.

African audi­ences’ responses to our “Elec­tions Circus” pub­li­ca­tion — which detailed how more than €100 mil­lion of EU tax­payers’ money, ear­marked for free and fair elec­tions, has largely ben­e­fited ruling elites rather than sup­porting mean­ingful demo­cratic change — have been over­whelming. Hundreds of readers accessed the online link as soon as it went live, and print copies sold in sig­nif­i­cantly higher num­bers than usual. In Côte d’Ivoire, three online media out­lets and one print news­paper pub­lished all five country chap­ters, while on the day of pub­li­ca­tion, the gov­ern­ment also dis­banded its elec­toral com­mis­sion. In Kenya and Nigeria, high-quality inde­pen­dent media co-pub­lished the work, reaching mil­lions. Even Mozambique, which was not included in the pro­ject, chose to pub­lish it. In con­trast, the EU has remained silent throughout. EU del­e­ga­tions did not respond to NAIRE jour­nal­ists’ requests for com­ment; the EU in Brussels did not respond to emailed ques­tions; and no response was pro­vided after pub­li­ca­tion.