Reading読みもの
Short pieces in English about stories the bulletins run past: what a news cycle somewhere actually consisted of, and what the paperwork underneath it says. Written for people who came here to watch the news, and stayed to wonder what on earth that was about.ニュース番組が足早に通り過ぎる話を、資料まで戻って英語で書いています。ここに書いたものは英語のみです。
- One hundred and five megawatts A city in New York held a hearing on whether to stop approving computers for a year. Its whole electricity allocation is 105 megawatts and one data centre would want 50. What a city ordinance, an emergency order, a Chinese five-year plan and a fusion company’s grid application say about who gets the power. · United States and China
- What gets smaller The General Assembly asked the world to stop drawing Africa small. Greenland, Russia and France shrink with it, the resolution names none of them, and the effect on how people see the world is the part researchers keep failing to find. · United Nations
- What the ground recorded A mountainside in Langtang came down on 26 August and put a flood 100 kilometres down the Trishuli. Seismometers on four continents wrote it down. What the instruments say, what is still unsettled, and where to give. · Nepal and China
- The future arrived in a limited area A car with no steering wheel started carrying passengers in Austin, and OpenAI’s president said it was not unreasonable to feel we are in the AGI era. Both shipped inside a fence. · United States
- When a free teacup becomes contraband A sushi chain gave away cups with a cartoon character on them. Three days later it cancelled the whole campaign, saying it had found misconduct by one of its own staff. · Japan