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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...
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What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?
It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 10h
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”
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Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h
According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 28/09/2026
This move will only draw more attention to the story. Takedown notice sometimes succeed in removing third-party ads b/c stations may conclude the risks of a defamation suit are too high. But they're immune from liability for defamation for *candidate* ads, which this one is. #StreisandEffect
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Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas Reflector
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Talking about AI and fossil fuels, Huang says ‘in order to save you, they’ve got to hurt you first.' Huang’s extreme level of privilege is glaring (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/1000140...
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Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
It’s giving Thanos energy.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...
After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.” 
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics. 
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
David Plouffe, a Coinbase adviser, is on MS NOW the same day that the Fairshake super PAC it bankrolls announces it will spend $30M vs. Sherrod Brown in #OHSen. Last year, Sen. Tim Scott publicly thanked crypto industry "for getting rid of Sherrod Brown." Brown had called for consumer protections.
Screenshot of David Plouffe on MS NOW (09-21-26)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is considering data center-related projects across at least 17,600 acres of public land — far more than previously reported. Reminder: 70% of Americans oppose data centers, but Trump is heavily invested in the corporations pushing AI. Always follow the money.
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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
As Trump tries to ban CNN from the White House, it would be a massive mistake to cave on the Paramount merger. The last thing we need is another Trump-controlled media conglomerate abusing its power to stomp out competition. This is a dangerous merger. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Paramount and California AG Bonta Reportedly in ‘Advanced Talks’ to Settle Antitrust Suit
Paramount Skydance is in "advanced talks" with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that's holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the WSJ reported.
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thoughtful rejoinder to other frontier labs from Microsoft AI’s CEO: “A warning about ‘model welfare’” mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab...
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Love that - would’ve been great if he’d articulated support for even interim measures for regulating the tech industry during his eight years as President…
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This entire piece is structured around quotes from consultants that won’t even go on the record (and who might well *also* have U.S. companies as clients)… www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He should put on a cardigan sweater and deliver this message in a televised address. I'm sure American voters will love it!
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026
‘The facility has been fully leased to Anviran LLC, a Meta subsidiary, under a $6.6 billion, 20-year contract, according to a CleanSpark presentation. It’s the first junk-bond offering tied to a Meta data center, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Meta-Tied Data Center Taps US Junk Bonds for the First Time
CleanSpark Inc. is seeking to borrow roughly $2.23 billion through a debut junk-bond offering to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure tied to Meta Platforms Inc..
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m 100% convinced we’ll see a major AI-enabled catastrophic incident in the next 2 years…but not because of RSI or “deception/scheming/blackmail” (much less AGI). It’ll be because a CEO/general/mayor directed subordinates to connect a frontier model to a management interface of a critical system…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.
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Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.
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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Taylor doing the bit, but sincerely
Screen shot of a social media interaction. 
OP: Can't wait to gamble today. Literally shaking. That's called dedication.
7:29 AM • 30 Nov 22

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That's called an addiction
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OP: Buddy, I've been gambling everyday for 20+ years. It's all I think about and I still haven't gotten addicted so doubt it's happening.
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I used to argue that QAnon was the most powerful example of the massive technophilic blindspot in Yochai Benkler’s romanticized “internet peer production” but honestly this horrific example is probably even more emblematic. Decentralized gender-based cyber-harassment and terror.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30 The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon. My reporting today @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...
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Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This claim is not even remotely accurate -- and a simple Google search would have turned up the *extensive* efforts by Jewish organizations (nationally and locally and overseas) to urge venues to drop Kanye's tour based on his anti-semitism.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Consultants hold too much power and are unwilling to actually engage on climate based on some flimsy polls, but “they are killing your kids by poisoning the air we breath” is absolutely a winning message and one need look no further than data center mobilization rhetoric for an example of that.
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Michael Santoli @michaelsantoli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Fed raised interest rates at every meeting from March 2022 through the midterm election. Also hiked a few times in 2018 before a midterm election. Also hiked every meeting from June 2004 through a presidential election. And the Fed was tightening for all of 1994 prior to a midterm election.
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In this context, I tend to think of the HuggingFace incident as a companion story to the ‘They Stole our Maths!’ drama. Both are inevitably top of mind right now for any CIO/CTO/CISO of a publicly-traded, highly-regulated firm, and/or company with lots of sensitive data. bsky.app/profile/seri...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rather than a marketing ploy, efforts by frontier labs to focus attention on SciFi framing of their recent agentic incidents (“the agents are breaking out and colluding!”) can better be understood as misdirection. From many things, but most concerningly from glaringly poor cybersecurity culture. 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
One year ago today
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026
Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:
At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the top headlines in our news media today are about the wonderful new promises of the guy who said "i will fix it on day one" to high gas prices
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great idea for FOIAs!
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chromebooks went on sale in only 2011 - by 2013 they had penetrated 22% of US school districts (and pursued similar market penetration globally). In 2012 and 2013, Obama Ed Dept launched its “war on traditional textbooks” and ConnectED initiatives. Yes, global decline; but US shaped global edtech.
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Joe Brusuelas @joebrusuelas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
US August PPI: when one parses through the data one can feel the pain of down-market consumers, small firms and midsize business. Diesel was up 24.1%, home heating oil & distillates 22.8%, final demand for energy 4.2%, eggs for fresh use 32.2%, grains 4.3%. #Econ #EconSky
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Strongly endorse. Among other systemic failures, the two examples below happened squarely under Obama Admin. Still stuns me that there’s not a bigger reckoning over Obama Admin’s capitulation to the tech industry.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This story is buried on NYT site. And they write "questionable and provocative" claims If Biden said this the whole story would be about cognitive decline--or outrageous lying.
NYT:At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him to Safety

President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Data centers have driven a 76% increase in the cost of energy…The price impacts on customers have been very large, are not reversible & will be even larger in the near term unless the issues associated with data center load are addressed” soon. dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-d...
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After the Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026
80% of off-grid power for planned data centres will come from fossil fuels sf-asset-manager.s3.amazonaws.com/97637/1139/8...
Power sourcing strategy of announced BTM projects
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seriesoftubes.bsky.social @seriesoftubes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The message is certainly not anti-Semitic at all! But I can absolutely sympathize with those in the Jewish community who don’t give Macklemore the benefit of the doubt when he came onstage in this outfit in 2014 - then repeatedly gaslight Jews about the significance of it.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 07/09/2026
‘Tech companies’ embrace of a new Red Scare risks further inflaming grassroots opponents who may not like being labeled socialist dupes.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/upse...
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Upset About Data Centers? Big Tech and Trump Think You’re a Socialist Dupe
China is being blamed for stoking the grassroots revolt against artificial intelligence in the U.S.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2026
not even the bitcoin people were brazen enough to try and pull this line

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“Data centers are not secretly poisoning communities. They are critical infrastructure that can raise legitimate, but resolvable, questions about water use, electricity demand and local permitting — hardly the environmental menace Brockovich makes them out to be.”
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Read my latest in @ocregister with @JoinYoungVoices on data centers
https://ocregister.com/2026/09/04/erin-brockovich-has-fallen-into-the-permanent-grift-trap/
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Factually untrue. Data centers are absolutely poisoning communities, from fumes from their diessel generators, to the incessant loud noise, to the climate-destabilizing massive amounts of CO2, plus hazardous and harmful air pollution & coal ash from their electricity generation.
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To be fair the data centers are not doing that! (Aside from maybe noise if there’s not enough sound insulation). Data centers are just servers in a room. Natural gas plants attached to data centers are doing all that and that’s why we shouldn’t power these data centers that way
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
I think it’s cool how “this toaster might electrocute you” or “these brakes don’t always work” is acceptable in consumer products because it’s software.
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Claude can help manage your email inbox, but there are some risks involved - Engadget
Giving Claude access to your inbox can be helpful, but don't give it too much power. Allowing the AI to send emails without your approval could create problems.
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