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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year. It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study. www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
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AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
One data center campus in Pennsylvania will use as much power as the entire city of Philadelphia. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Analysis | Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.
These AI campuses consume more power than major U.S. cities. Their footprints are measured in miles, not feet.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
20 data center projects, with an estimated $98 billion collective price tag, were blocked or delayed in just one three month period last year. boondoggle.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...
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The Cult of Data Centers
Big Tech sways too many economic development officials, and local residents are fed up.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Flock seeks to add data from private car dashcams to its massive surveillance network. At minimum it seems like data from random cars driving around is going to be added to their system www.404media.co/flock-wants-...
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Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month
That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21/08/2025
“Crime is out of control there, and it’s clear something must be done to combat it," Gov. Tate Reeves said as he deployed 200 Mississippi National Guard soldiers to Washington, D.C., where violent crime rates fell significantly last year.
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Mississippi Governor Deploys 200 National Guard Soldiers to DC
Mississippi National Guard soldiers are going to Washington, D.C., on President Trump’s orders to temporarily take over the capital’s police force.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025
“Here’s the problem with being awash in data and inferences: It never stays limited to any innocent or well-intentioned purpose. It almost immediately becomes a tempting weapon for those who want to wield power over a society, with or without consent from the people in that society.”
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How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy
The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It’s been two months since I wrote about AI which, as someone who detests having to write about AI, feels like not much time at all. On fake books, cash traps and magic beans, and why I continue to hate every vapid tentacle AI thrusts in our direction. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: We have elevated AI that almost never works as well as what it replaces
I could write an article just like this one every single day, each filled with brand-new examples of AI’s constant enshittification of the media we consume
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/04/2025
The systems also have filtering capabilities, which can restrict students’ access to certain websites and pages based on their content.
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School-Issued Laptops Are Monitoring Students' Every Word
Nearly half of K-12 students are subject to digital surveillance systems.
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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 08/04/2025
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Alabama's Fairhope Public Library has lost its funding for not banning books as demanded of them: www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/u...
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Alabama board defunds local library for failing to protect teens from ‘inappropriate’ books | CNN
The public library in Fairhope, Alabama — a picturesque city on the shores of Mobile Bay — has found itself in the crosshairs of battles over library content.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13/03/2025
I mentioned this @amoorelouise.bsky.social article to my grad students recently bc the more I think about it, the more important it seems. LLMs make decisions by altering parameters until you get a desired outcome, not by reasoning through principles. + www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Machine learning political orders | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Machine learning political orders - Volume 49 Issue 1
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 04/02/2025
Thanks to @404media.co for covering this story! The ways in which platforms undermine professional ethics cuts across disciplines. Let's hold them accountable. www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 19/01/2025
Why the consequences of Trump 2.0 are likely to be profound
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Why the consequences of Trump 2.0 are likely to be profound
There's a fair chance that when historians look back at the era we're currently in, they will describe this - the second inauguration of Donald Trump - as the moment the world changed.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/01/2025
Reminder that Mitt Romney explicitly said the rationale behind the tiktok ban was pro Palestinian content. The renewed push last year was explicitly to help Israel conduct a genocide without scrutiny on social media. Imperial boomerang in action. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Sen. Romney links TikTok ban to pro-Palestinian content
Critics say his remarks belie the "national security" motive and expose free speech suppression.
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it's not looking great @itsnotlookinggreat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
"While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/12/2024
A report by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says that several universities in the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israel-linked security companies to suppress Palestine solidarity protests occurring on their campuses. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/es3
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/12/2024
DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at
Ro Khanna praising DOGE in a tweet
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 02/12/2024
"In our review, we found that 59% of banned books were children’s books featuring diverse characters or nonfiction books about historical figures and social movements," Katherine Spoon writes. buff.ly/4f1Xin4
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Great Library Freedom Project event, “Follow the Money,” on right-wing think tanks + school/library attacks, with Isaac Kamola and Maurice Cunningham.I hadn’t known about the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, which trains these folks to override faculty governance + academic freedom
A screenshot of a slide showing various right wing research organizations
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"Publishers have steadily made
 e-licenses for books more expensive and subject to more and more frequent renewals, making it difficult for libraries to afford extensive online catalogs." From... Reason. Hey, glad to have you on board in the fight for fair use! reason.com/2024/11/10/c...
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Courts are coming for digital libraries
A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
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