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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UPDATE 🚨: Finland orders Google to halt data centre work after they purposefully disregard requirements for an environment review Sadly 530 hectares of trees have already been destroyed - so much for "Don't be evil"

gadgetreview.com

Finland Orders Google to Halt Data Centre Work Over Missing Environmental Reviews

Finland ordered Google to halt data centre work at Muhos and Kajaani after hundreds of hectares were cleared before required environmental reviews finished.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚠️ High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days You have to wonder if that's part of the plan. Small businesses across all industries are hit the hardest. The next administration needs a plan to counteract this damage.

thedrive.com

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

Expensive diesel fuel isn't just driving up costs—it's driving trucking companies out of business.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And another reminder to stop supporting Google and other big tech businesses. It takes 5 minutes to switch away from Google Chrome, and the experience will be the same, if not better.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

JUST IN: Google is accused of destroying nearly 500 football fields of forest for new data center project - before the required environmental review was complete There need to be real consequences against these companies for disobeying the law 👏

gadgetreview.com

Google Is Accused of Destroying Nearly 500 Football Fields of Forest for New Data Center Project

Google's Finland data center cleared 300 hectares of forest before environmental review concluded, now under regulatory investigation by LVV.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks, mostly me, but there is a good community that has formed to help push the message.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elizabeth Warren probes $19B in tax breaks for Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft as AI drains $96B in federal revenue In short, corporate tax revenues are down 23% this year, while bringing in record profits. No wonder these companies are so eager to cosy up to Trump...

moneywise.com

Elizabeth Warren probes $19B in tax breaks for Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft as AI drains $96B in federal revenue

Tech giants have gotten generous tax breaks just as programs like Social Security and SNAP are under strain.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨 Meta blocked President Lula’s Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election While also failing to block 87% of disinformation ads targeted against him. A handful of companies shouldn't have this much power over a country's democracy.

panamericandispatch.org

Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads

The page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨AI Exec: "We may have pulled off the largest theft of labor in human history” Documents from lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. More needs to be done to protect people's original work...

motherjones.com

AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obviously, it won't end it completely, but it will provide a real avenue to pursue companies that do it and stop it from becoming a mainstream propaganda tactic.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I found a way to fix social media and fight mass disinformation campaigns. What if we made it illegal for companies to astroturf conversations without disclosing it... we do it for traditional advertising. No more bots being financed in the millions or Big Tech trying to change the narrative.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⚠️ Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton - with one 50 ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction So much is wrong with this. Crazy levels of intellectual theft and excessive gutting of the used book market.

tomshardware.com

Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up ...

Short-term boom could lead to a longer-term drought and removal of important works from circulation.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JUST IN 🚨: Oracle cites ‘Force Majeure’ to shield itself on controversial Data Center as they look to defer lease payments. Hopefully this is the first domino to fall and the beginning of the end of these mass data center build-outs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Oracle Cites ‘Force Majeure’ to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center

Oracle Corp. is moving to shield itself from racking up expenses on a massive data center being built in New Mexico, adding a fresh wrinkle to a project beset by opposition and regulatory setbacks.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

⚠️ Microsoft patents a system to freeze games and inject ads during downtime - watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits Jumping on this trend of adding adverts to paid subscriptions. Rather support other companies before this becomes the norm.

tomshardware.com

Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits

Is this patent a sign of things to come?

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is most certainly not an endorsement of them. Horrible products made by an even worse company.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🚨 Switzerland's federal government is replacing Microsoft on 3,000 computers - start of a larger pilot for the federal administration. One of many European governments reevaluating the risk of depending on US tech.

itsfoss.com

Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨 Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times and other news organisations They argue that AI should be allowed to train on creators' works, as it falls under fair use... Gone are the days where the government protects its people.

theguardian.com

Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Meta hit with sweeping new claims that its AI glasses violated the consent of “Millions” of bystanders in searing lawsuit While their faces, bodies & information were captured, reviewed, labelled and embedded into Meta's system. Make these glasses illegal 👏

futurism.com

Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit against Meta was amended yesterday to include a new class of "bystanders," who claim Meta violated their privacy.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fairphone or Jolla are the main new contenders

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I also thought email would be an effort. But it really isn't if you do it over time. Forward all your Gmail emails to your new address and slowly move accounts over, without ever having to touch Gmail again.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google has bent the knee once again. Time to make your voice heard and move away from their products! Chrome -> Firefox, Vivaldi, Ecosia Gmail -> Fastmail, Proton Mail, Atomic Mail Search -> Qwant, Kagi, DuckDuckGo It's easier than you expect.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

JUST IN: Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property Just one of the many victims of the rampant theft of people's work by these AI companies.

axios.com

Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music

The suit is likely the opening salvo in what promises to be a long battle over intellectual property.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A study of nearly 10,000 battery health tests found top EVs keep over 97% of capacity after 62,000 miles, easing degradation fears. That is almost 10 years of driving for the average person... yet another reason to go electric.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario Google already shows you Lake Ontario if you search for Lake America. Only a matter of time before they capitulate the same way as they did with 'Gulf of Mexico'

businessinsider.com

The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario

MapQuest shared a tool for users to generate joke screenshots with their own names for Lake Ontario, writing: "Lake Are We Doing This Again?"

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says We already know that it is aggressively used to generate CSAM. And there still hasn't been any real consequences....

arstechnica.com

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Article: www.businessinsider.com/tempe-shuts-...

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

JUST IN: Tempe city has turned off its Flock license plate reader system, citing privacy concerns and potential for 'misuse' Protesting matters and is making a difference. Keep it up!

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Article: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

⚠️ US gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution - granting permits without publicizing them This is why there is so much anger towards them. Get to operate under a completely different set of rules.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump has once again sent the USA and Canada into a trade war by reneging on the deal at the last minute... The best way to have your voice heard is to stop buying US products, starting with Big Tech. A few guides to make this easy, with Canadian products highlighted.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🚨No more doomscrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know in a case where states seek $200B in damages. Evidence includes testimony from a whistleblower, who says that Zuckerberg knew real teen harm rates were 100-400 times higher than the public figures.

gadgetreview.com

Zuckerberg Knew. A Whistleblower Has the Emails to Prove It.

Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar testifies that internal data showed teen harm rates 400x higher than what the company told the public.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

⚠️ Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky They're still trying to fool everyone into thinking this is for reading license plates. Protest them before it is too late.

techspot.com

Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky

Flock is best known for the roadside cameras now operating in more than 6,000 US communities. But the company is increasingly betting on drones that can be...

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose If you haven't seen it, Honey (owned by PayPal) and Phia, have been caught stealing referral attributions. These are often small content creators. They also rarely find genuine discounts. Avoid using them.

dexerto.com

Honey loses over 7 million users and 7,000 stores following YouTuber’s viral expose - Dexerto

Honey has lost over seven million Chrome users and around 7,000 merchant partners as a creator lawsuit against PayPal heads into discovery.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bernie Sanders calls out Google's co-founder Sergey Brin for spending over $100 million to defeat California’s billionaire tax. If passed, it would be a one-time 5% wealth tax; he would owe $14 billion and still be worth $270 billion.

benzinga.com

Bernie Sanders Slams Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin For Spending Millions to 'Defeat' the California Wealt

Bernie Sanders slams Sergey Brin over his $102 million fight against California’s billionaire tax after Brin’s $140 billion wealth surge.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A shipment of rare books was tracked by 404media... it ended up at an Amazon AI training facility, where they scan and destroy books. At worst, we are losing invaluable works. Regardless, they are stealing decades of knowledge without attribution. This needs to stop.

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Twitch is using streamers’ content to train Amazon's AI models by default ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Twitch's CPO admitted and why they instead have a hidden opt-out process.

videogameschronicle.com

‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Twitch is using streamers’ content to train generative AI by default | VGC

Users have to manually turn off the setting to stop their content being used…

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

⚠️ Amazon’s new AI data center is so enormous that it could be the largest single source of carbon emissions in the US On par with entire countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, and Bulgaria Incredibly sad to see as we battle record-breaking heatwaves. Stop supporting these companies

futurism.com

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Qwant - growing their own independent search Ecosia - similar results to Bing, while donating to a good cause Kagi - one of the best replacements for experience. No ads, but paid

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