Culture
Jul 4, 2026
1 min
Two Quick Ticks
The kinds of text that appears here and there from time to time.
By Nick Butler
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THE TICKER was built with the assistance of Claude by Anthropic. AI systems require energy and water to operate. Below is our running estimate of water used in building and maintaining THE TICKER.
Estimated water usage to build this site to date: 24 gallons