Artificial Intellegence

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    Bridging the Discussion Divide with GenAI

    ByElmer Hall

    Ray had known Dana for 19 years, since their daughters learned to ride bikes in his cul-de-sac. On the last Saturday in June they stood in his driveway and agreed, without hesitation, on a single proposition: only American citizens should vote in American elections. 90 seconds later, Dana was walking to her car. What happened…

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    The Food-Energy-Water-Compute Nexus: Adding the Fourth Letter

    ByPiAdmin

    The water board meeting ran late on a Tuesday in October. The applicant was identified only as Project Trillium, a code name pending NDA. The slide deck showed a 250-acre footprint twelve miles north of town, a substation that would double the county’s transmission capacity, and a request that read like a typo: 14 million…

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    The Price-Setter: Why Blocking Clean Energy Raises Everyone’s Bill

    ByPiAdmin

    The staff economist at the state Public Service Commission had been staring at the same spreadsheet for forty minutes. It was a Thursday in late February, the heat in the building was set too low for the season, and her office still smelled faintly of the coffee she had spilled on Monday. The spreadsheet was…

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    El Niño to La Niña: Two Climate Years That Could Reshape Weather Risk in Florida, the U.S., and the World

    ByElmer Hall

    El Niño La Niña: From record heat to hurricane season, snowpack, drought, floods, food systems, and strategic planning March 2026 was not a subtle warning. It was a flashing red light. Across the contiguous United States, March 2026 ranked as the warmest March in the 132-year U.S. record, with an average temperature 9.35°F above average….

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    Companion Essay: The GenAI Adoption Curve Is Not Following the Old Rules

    ByElmer Hall

    Why the speed of AI adoption is rewriting assumptions about innovation, work, planning, and competitive advantage. Companion Essay to the Two-Part “GenAI Adoption Curve” Series: The adoption of Generative AI is not just another technology cycle. It is a break in the historical pattern. For most of the modern industrial era, transformative technologies followed relatively…

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    The AI Ban Written by AI: Plagiarism, Policy, and the Ghost of Wikipedia

    ByElmer Hall

    Subtitle: Everyone is using GenAI. The real question is whether we can learn to use it honestly, wisely, and well. The policy says, “No AI.” The teacher used AI to draft the policy. The student used AI to interpret the policy. The administrator used AI to summarize the violation. The committee will now meet for…