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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Many things going wrong but one nice thing is that you can toss the price of a fancy coffee at a local candidate and it turns into a meaningful contribution to fight against conservative + corporate politics

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oregon's Data Center Advisory Committee's preliminary findings had major gaps, from narrowly defining "environment", to omitting grid stability issues, to reducing economic impacts to data center jobs. We wrote our own report to set the record straight. 170 citations. No BS. tinyurl.com/mpztwuuj

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ummm... IIRC that support came with a bunch of asterisks that meant a moratorium only applied to state owned land. A loophole big enough to make tech co donors happy. So, how about clarifying you support a full 3 year moratorium?

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER."

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 15/09/2026

I was trying to write about this yesterday because I feel like a clear and neutral explanation for normies about why frontier labs are Like This would be really useful but I just couldn’t bring myself to explain it because it’s so fucking TIRESOME.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love how Oregon's social movements have moved the needle from "don't say moratorium" to politicians falling over themselves to say it. Here Kotek builds some giant loopholes so she can say it and keep donors smiling. nkpdx.substack.com/p/data-cente...

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Data Center Moratorium Now! September 8 in Salem, OR

People from across the state went to the Capitol in Salem to remind Oregon legislators that we needed a data center moratorium, like, yesterday.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Bring your whole self to work" didn't quite work out for me. Looking back, the best I could do was be a smuggler-- sneaking in douses of reality within institutions that didn't really want it. underthecircumstances.substack.com/p/a-smuggler...

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A Smuggler's Resume

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A Smuggler's Resume

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Braided River Campaign @braidedriverpdx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The aging, dangerous CEI Hub tanks threaten the economic prosperity of Portland. That's why we need your support for safety reform and a reduction of the volume of fuels stored there. Ask your councilors how they are going to vote. Photo by Sarah Risser, @henryz_mom.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is too-slick-by-half neoliberal bullshit. She uses words voters like-"pause"- while not actually supporting a state-wide moratorium. Just slow the state-owned land parts, and increase the burden on cash-strapped localities to say no. We see right through you @tinakotek.bsky.social

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"...most people spend the greater part of their lives inside institutions they don’t control. Trade unions and labor protections have mitigated some of these conditions through long political struggle, but the underlying structure of top-down authority...has remained largely intact."

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AI Lays Bare the Authoritarianism of Modern Work. Time to Rethink Education.

AI now bypasses the original logic of the educational bargain altogether, write Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Data center expansion is entirely unnecessary for advanced AI...models can be over 100,000 times smaller than ChatGPT. Some require no more resources to train or serve than...a webpage." Minimal resource use, maximal privacy. Why isn't* Big Tech doing this? *yeah, we know why not.

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The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed

We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

laughs in theoretical saturation

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026

Not to be too conspiratorial, but is it too much of a stretch to think that tech companies underwrote the Vanderbilt Report to undermine, in the first instance, the discipline of anthropology precisely because they wanted to appropriate its methodological frameworks as marketing for AI?

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

One of our DAIR pillars is to put forward our vision for a positive technological future rather than watching on the sidelines as the broligrachy gets to implement their dystopian dreams. So @adiod.bsky.social edits a series we call The Possible Futures Series. dair-institute.org/projects/pos...

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Possible Futures Blog Series

Broad, near-future speculative pieces designed to de-center dominant narratives about technology and challenge us all to realize that things can be different.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

omg I love this pissed off beaver so much from ordcd.org/signup

A rather ticked off cartoon beaver giving a data center the side eye

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Stanford is a tax-exempt investment fund with an attached educational institution.” Folks, @adriandaub.bsky.social has written another absolute banger.

WHAT
TECH
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Author of What Tech Calls Thinking

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A refreshingly grounded perspective on the supposed AI "arms race" to nowhere.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

60. That woman is 60, rocking a pole like a champ. F-ing awesome. (Uhh... also time for me to get back to those sit ups)

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We need one of these "ads" for Oregon :).

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The only viable choice here is Gillian Anderson. Bond becomes a power lesbian. That is all.

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9

Elinor Ostrom receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a older white woman with gray hair and glasses, wearing a long batik dyed dress, and holding the certificate and medal (in a box).

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sucks that the most important things in life are also the most tedious. Just complaining to the ether.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hard to overstate how much of a threat leaders and public officials who actually govern and serve the people pose to those whose political careers depend on fomenting cynicism and delegitimizing democracy

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So, this is today! Send an old fashioned email. Doesn't have to be a whole lot, just enough to let them know the public is watching, and, if you are like me, wants a moratorium.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Reminder that you have until EOD August 6 (not the 7th as originally stated) to tell the Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee how you think data centers should be regulated. Also, remind them that even Texas now has a moratorium. datacenter.ac@oregon.gov

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Oregon.gov : State of Oregon

The official homepage of the State of Oregon

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Oregon.gov : State of Oregon

The official homepage of the State of Oregon

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Teach an analog seminar on the political economy of hyperscale imperialism, then look your provost in the eye and demand merit pay for “integrating ai” into your coursework.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 03/08/2026

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

chart showing 280k pr specialists to 40k 'news analysts, reporters, and journalists'

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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Salem City Council has scheduled a special meeting for Monday night. Just one item on the agenda: "Consideration of the initiation of a moratorium on AI data centers and the initiation of amendments to the City zoning code to regulate AI data centers."

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oregonians- You have until Aug 7 to tell the Governor's Data Center Advisory Committee exactly what you think of data centers. Send comments to datacenter.ac@oregon.gov (really; it's just an email.) Hint: the word "moratorium" is like Tinkerbell. The more that we say it, the more real it becomes.

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Oregon.gov : State of Oregon

The official homepage of the State of Oregon

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Oregon GOP governor candidate, Christine Drazan, promises to purge the Oregon State Board of Education and fill it with anti-woke MAGAs. "Curriculum in the classroom that is not age appropriate" is a dog whistle for anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-sex ed. This is anti-equality, neo-segregationist rhetoric.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I mean, why even bother adding the word "sciences" when he could have just said the administration is de-prioritizing life, period?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/07/2026

1956 Republican National platform.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Excellent account of the doublespeak necessary to make it possible for researchers to agree to do the science of killing more people faster.

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