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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 4h
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But wind farm blades go to landfill! they used to, now they can be recycled, as are solar panels. We need nuclear!!!!! we don't, its expensive, and also has a waste problem, 200,000 barrels and decades later, still leaking. www.sciencealert.com/150000-tons-...
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150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for nuclear technology.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026
AI to emit six times more CO₂ in 2030 than in 2025, experts warn
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AI to emit six times more CO₂ in 2030 than in 2025, experts warn
Greenhouse gas emissions from the AI sector could reach worrying levels by the end of the decade, according to a study published Wednesday by the French advocacy group Green IT. This is in addition to the damage caused to aquatic environments and fine particle pollution.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why “do your own research” doesn’t work. The mother believed she “researched” raw milk. On Facebook. She discarded the science behind pasteurization and the dangers of consuming raw milk. 🧪 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch the full episode now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrni...
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💙 This is a company with integrity 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...
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Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected
The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Says it all. @jvp.bsky.social
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s been 6 months since I sold all of my individual stocks and a week since I called on my opponent to do the same, but he has refused.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026
Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: The Clear Labels Act was designed to help patients and doctors see exactly where a medication was made. But experts say the law’s most critical provisions have been cut: “It's just a clear watering down of the original bill.”
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“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this experimental car t-cell therapy is something. a 3-year-old boy's massive, metastatic liver cancer (that spread to lungs/bones) fully regressed after two doses. car t usually tackles blood cancers, so this for a solid tumor is a significant step, with no toxicity.
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A 3-Year-Old's Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy
Researchers have reported an extraordinary case where an experimental CAR T-cell therapy led to the complete disappearance of metastatic liver cancer in a three-year-old boy. This breakthrough is part
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
NEWS: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs and 20,000 penetrator warheads to Israel, with the weapons to be purchased using U.S. taxpayer dollars through the Foreign Military Financing program
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Sista 𓅓 @sista.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Paraphrasing spiritual teacher Ram Dass, "Whether this is the first day of the Apocalypse or the first day of the Golden Age, the work remains the same...to love each other and ease as much suffering as possible."
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russia-gate was real and is ongoing. Turns out it was/is Russia Russia Russia
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 15/09/2026
Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations
Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cartoon by @danboriscreates.bsky.social.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
From tiny houses to skis: This Swedish company is finding creative uses for retired wind turbines www.euronews.com/2026/09/13/f...
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Retired wind turbines are turning into tiny homes and alpine skis
What happens to decommissioned wind turbines and blades? Some are finding new life as buildings.
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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Delighted to have this #cartoon published in @theguardian.com #datacentres #environment
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
St. John of the Cross “I saw the river over which each soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven / and the name of that river was Suffering. / I saw the boat which carries souls across the river, and the name of that boat is Love”.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here’s a handy reference.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 11/09/2026
A.I. Boom Poses Growing Public Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn😡⁉️⁉️ Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/c...
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A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn (Gift Article)
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He's now resorting to trying to buy the election. Federal law makes it unlawful to knowingly and willfully pay, offer to pay, or accept payment for registering to vote or for voting. (52 U.S.C. §10307(c).) Any type of incentive is considered “payment.”
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
wish more people knew about this alzheimer's research. a drug called trontinemab, with 'brainshuttle' tech, is in a prevention trial. it aims to stop alzheimer's before symptoms. in early trials, it cleared amyloid plaques in 90% of people in 28 weeks with very low side effect...
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Major Trial of Roche's Novel Alzheimer's Drug, Trontinemab, Kicks Off in Europe
Roche has initiated the PrevenTRON trial in Europe for its Alzheimer's drug, trontinemab, which utilizes a 'Brainshuttle' technology to enhance drug delivery to the brain. This Phase 3 prevention stud
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...
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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Balcony solar DIY kits plug your home into the sun. No government subsidy or utility permission needed. Sarah Shemkus @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4xdTpVq Support @twrader.bsky.social, Rep. Chris Glassburn- proposed H.B. 755 for Ohio balcony solar. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @thirdactoh.bsky.social
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Where does balcony solar stand in your state?
Dozens of states are considering legislation to allow residents to use DIY plug-in solar. Follow the efforts here.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
3 MILLION GALLONS — GONE. A waterline leak tied to a DATA CENTER in El Reno reportedly cost residents 3 MILLION gallons of treated water this week. Maybe before we rush to throw up data centers everywhere, we should STUDY what they demand
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Data center leak costs residents more than 3 million gallons of water
YouTube video by CNN
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Texas isn't a red state, it's a non-voting state. Let's change that, Texans! Make a plan to vote early: October 19-30. And tell your friends and family. Please check your voter registration by going to: www.texas.gov/living-in-te...
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
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RB @rbisrb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Same As It Ever Was...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not self-defense. The Greater Israel Project. Why does it never get talked about out in American media?
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 04/09/2026
🧠 Turns out cleaner air doesn't just help little lungs. Columbia researchers tracked 1,000+ NYC kids for 20 years. As soot and NO2 dropped, toddlers' brain development scores went UP. 📈 Clean air policy IS child development policy, moms. 💨 #cleanair #momsky www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/c...
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Cleaner Air, Smarter Toddlers (Gift Article)
New research links climate policies to improved early-childhood development.
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