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This is the US. A country where people with enough money can get away with just about anything.

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The New York Times steals credit for other news outlets' groundbreaking reporting. Shame.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 25/09/2026

I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The world's richest man (who's also a Nazi) and the world's most powerful government are conspiring to prevent free and fair elections in Brazil.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Flagrantly unethical behavior by the rich and powerful is tolerated, and often incentivized, in the US. In many other countries, such as Brazil, that's not the case.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shitty framing by the New York Times, as usual. The AI didn't go rogue. It's a computer program. It was programmed to go rogue by its creators. If rule of law existed in the US, much of Silicon Valley would be shut down.

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gaudin.bsky.social @gaudin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The same could be said of the US Senate, Electoral College… the whole electoral system.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What kind of person reads Lord of the Rings and concludes that Sauron and Saruman were the good guys?

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026

A functioning regulatory system would include frequent, randomized spot checks, done regularly by well-funded civil servants using modern technology, plus consequences - fines or jail time - serious enough to actually prevent polluters from sickening or killing nearby people.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 24/09/2026

1/ As Nepal’s PM @shahbalen.bsky.social speaks at the UN General Assembly, 160+ organisations support his calls for a rapid, well-financed response to the glacial flood disaster in Nepal. Here’s why 🧵👇 @gcdcj.bsky.social @asianpeoplesmvt, Desis Rising Up & Moving 📸 @canclimateaction.bsky.social

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The only thing that makes the likes of Huang (or Musk, Bezos, Altman, Zuckerberg, or any of these scam artists) credible in the eyes of gullible journalists is that they are insanely wealthy.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t know how many more times I’m going to say this but truly fuck Newsom

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sorry but if your AI criticism doesn't include analysis of how the hyperscale data centre push is actually seeing the biggest billionaires actively worsen the climate crisis and push for more deregulation of and investment in the fossil fuel industry to power those data centres, you're a dummy

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d praise their games and recipes and then act sincerely stunned when it’s mentioned they also have a “news” section. “Good for you guys for branching out. That takes guts. Someone needs to do serious journalism about the Gaza genocide and climate collapse.”

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No social, political, or economic system, or technology, is ever "inevitable." Anything created by humans can be dismantled by humans.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

This piece touches on an extremely important and terrible trend: AI-false-balance among polite centre-left politicians. Every critique HAS to begin with something like "AI is here to stay. With the right rules, it can be a force for good. But........." www.techpolicy.press/the-life-and...

Information integrity is one of seven critical issues in the Preliminary Report of the UN’s Independent Scientific Panel on AI released in July at the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence. It warns that AI can erode shared reality and civic participation through “epistemic erosion,” the gradual wearing away of society’s ability to distinguish truth from falsehood. Opening the Dialogue, the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, tied that erosion directly to the viral and exponential nature of advanced data driven technologies: “A machine-enabled lie can now persuade as effectively as the truth, and authentic evidence can be dismissed as fake.”“A society that cannot agree on what is real cannot defend itself,” Guterres said.

And yet he did not reference the threat of AI to amplify inequality, unless governed effectively. Instead, Guterres casts AI as “the great equaliser of the 21st century ” achievable by developing countries on the technology fast-track through safe systems that honor human rights, with real transparency about labor and planetary impacts. Getting this right, he said, is “at the heart of our common future.”

Yet the Panel’s Report, subtitled as an “evidence-based assessment of the opportunities, risks and impacts of AI” provides no evidence that AI will be a ‘great equaliser’. On the contrary, despite its curious ‘balancing’ of every claim with a counter claim, the heavily referenced report actually demonstrates far more evidence of the negative consequences of AI, while doing very little to support claims that AI will help in the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Regardless, this did not stop the ‘great equaliser’ mantra from being repeated by numerous member states and heads of multilateral bodies who subsequently addressed the forum.

In fact the report highlights the lack of — and unevenness of — evidence, including on some of the big ticket items: productivity gains, labor market effects, value-chain impacts, and …

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Abolishing ICE is the mainstream position. Both official political parties in the US are to the right of the mainstream.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The private sector will never invest adequately in just social and economic transformation, because there isn't enough $$$ in it for them. Instead, they will pour capital into scams and bubbles to make a quick buck.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Liberal complicity with fascism appears to be a widespread problem in Europe and North America.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But our so-called opposition party wants to focus solely on "affordability."

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The real test will be, will the Australian government have the spine to take serious legal action against OpenAI? Or will elite impunity shield a wealthy corporation yet again?

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not surprised at all to see the New York Times provide a platform for corporate villains to greenwash. What does surprise me is seeing many people who should know better still taking the New York Times seriously as a credible news outlet.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In what rational universe is basic oversight of flagrant human rights violations by an authoritarian government NOT a core part of the work of the official opposition party? These people should quit. They have no clue about the times we're living in.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is horrifying and needs to be exposed. But, can we please stop using the term "race science?" That's our opponents' term of choice, even though their claims have been thoroughly disproved by scientists and have no scientific basis whatsoever.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When the oil & gas industry and other big polluters say we can keep polluting today and we'll just "direct air capture" our way out of trouble later, they're scamming us.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the government to disappear anyone, preventing loved ones and legal counsel from being able to contact them, is extremely dangerous.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICC member countries who claim to care about international law should sanction the US for trying to dismantle the ICC.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My hot take is that elites haven’t been “capitulating” at all. Trump has given them license to be as right-wing as they’ve always wanted to be.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"And we're doing everything we can to obstruct all efforts to stop us from making this come true."

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026

After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...

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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect

Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Critical insight from the President of OPEIU: AI and data centers are an anti-working class project of tech oligarchs, and unions should unite against this project, not cut deals to get a few temporary construction jobs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner

Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Speakers at a Nuremberg rally deserve a Nuremberg trial.

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Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 12/09/2026

The question is not whether or not to politicize death when drivers kill pedestrians, but rather how to politicize it? The #WarOnWalking has violent drivers, police support, state funding, and traffic "engineers" on their side. Politicians actually opposed need a new framework, not tweaks.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Chumash have lived on the Californian coast for 20,000 years. Violet Sage Walker spent a decade fighting to protect it. In 2024 she won: the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the first tribally-led sanctuary in US history. 4,500 sq miles off-limits to oil drilling.

Violet Sage Walker and her late father, Fred Collins

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The AI industry is pretty much disconnected from the material, phenomenological world. In other words, reality.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't know what's worse, the hubris of these tech bros or the breathless gullibility of the media outlets who parrot their pronouncements.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the face of this 21st century fascist international, the response of the neoliberal status quo has been pandering to the right, accepting their narrative frames (especially on migration and human rights of transgender folks), and economic reductionism.

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