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If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...

Anthropic’s $32b Queensland data centre to run on coal and gas power until renewables are built

I frontier lab Anthropic’s first Australian data centre at Zerra DC’s proposed $32 billion project in regional Queensland will be powered by coal and gas as a bridge until renewables to support the facility are built.

Wambo Cattle Company managing director Max Winders, the owner of the land Zerra plans to build on, told Capital Brief he expects fossil fuels to power the massive project for the foreseeable future.

“I think we’ll be using fossil fuels for quite a long time in Queensland, anyhow, certainly enough to be able to get the power to drive the data centres,” he said.

Winders said that he believed that the concessions Queensland Premier David Crisafulli negotiated “at National Cabinet was critical” for ensuring the Western Downs development has the best chance of being built.

“In all likelihood, they’ll just link up to the grid, sign a contract with the state energy provider, and then, likely draw the power from the coal plants that are already there.”

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 35m

The natural price of software is zero. And then the AI-as-a-service companies are going to have to pay a premium on top of that for the privacy & data issues.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 37m

The stock market going up is *bad*, actually. It doesn’t represent value, it represents profit. That is, how much of GDP isn’t productive. How much value is being looted by monopolies, exploitation or destruction. A rising stock market should tell us to bust up the trusts, not be celebrated.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 42m

Medieval alchemists were the last professional culture that aspired to build homunculi. Their culture has much to teach ours. Including much cooler aesthetics.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 51m

As a DSA member, I aspire to grow the PLA’s ranks by making sure the anti-Semites stomp off in a huff.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

We saw this stuff constantly during and after Metro Surge here in MN; you see it in how Trump has stripped the protected status of Haitians. “You’re in a racial group we detest, but you’re an American or have a legal right to be here. No matter: we’ll simply change the rules, now you’re illegal.”

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 53m

It is so helpful to impeachment that Trump keeps committing crimes. We never have to relitigate old crimes, because there is a fresh one available every day!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 56m

Whenever someone complains about people being “woke”, I know they’re just mad we noticed their crimes.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 57m

We should put Musk in jail for all the corporate fraud and corruption, but I would settle for putting him in jail for the blatant immigration fraud.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 1h

We need the scientific class to realize they are workers and need a union if they don’t want to be crushed by capitalism. If science is truly automated, where scientists aren’t needed at all, that is one thing. But scientists are being told they must hand over their labor to their bosses for free.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 1h

The framing is not ideal, but this is just labor activism by people who have never thought of themselves as the working class. Science is going to be automated the way manufacturing was: everything is worse, the jobs that are left suck, and all the profits go to the stock market instead of us.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 1h

The problem is that if we don’t believe that labor rights are more important than productivity, our society is going to collapse under the weight of exploitation.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The question is not “do machines feel pain?” It is “why would we care?” It is not a real thing. It is a program generating text. People can’t tell the difference the same way people decided they married Snape. That should not make it my problem.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texas bragging about eliminating the "Delaware-style" implied covenant of *good faith and fair dealing* in contracting is about all you need to know concerning where we are in the race to the bottom.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not saying the anti-Zionist movement is perfect. It absolutely is not. But the Nazis are a whole different problem, and also currently working in the White House.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Swastikas aren’t anti-Zionist. The Nazis signed the Haavara agreement. That’s just garden-variety anti-Semitism.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Those groups are more-accurately described as “pro-Israel” rather than “Jewish”. They don’t care about protecting Jewish Americans, so this does nothing for them.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This goes for everyone on both sides who are mad. All Jewish-Americans are worthy of protection and safety. We are neither responsible for nor beholden to Israel and it is anti-Semitic to say otherwise. A lot of pro-Israel organizations are proving that they disagree.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lol. Seth Moulton getting trounced on trans rights mighta scared them straight 🤣

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would argue that this has both the diagnosis and the prescription wrong. Microsoft & NVIDIA both have single-class shares. Dual class shares are the only defense against activist hedge funds suing for shareholder primacy, which is a much bigger problem.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That is a pretty good description of what Newt Gingrich did to America, yep. Reading Words That Work recently (about how the architect of that did it), and it applies equally well to the social media outrage-bait of today.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whenever I say “equating Israel and Jewish people is anti-Semitic” I always mean the ADL.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Suspending the gas tax just lets the gas companies jack up prices more while future taxpayers pick up the tab. I get that @massgovernor.bsky.social is trying to win an election and is worried about the money being spent against her, but is still disappointing to see her go in on that slopulism.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The FBI has never taken right-wing gender terrorism seriously. Even when handed information about the people orchestrating it.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It makes me wonder how many of the Back The Blue folks have a cop fetish

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They wouldn’t need to create jobs if people had money. Companies could just make things people actually want to buy.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is an interesting new challenge with streams. It’s a conversation, and it isn’t scripted or rehersed. The fans have the context, but ideological opponents can strip-mine hundreds of hours of content. And then only the parts they pull out break containment.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For example, I now know the steps to start an F16

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Hassan Piker said the same things Netanyahu said at the UN, people would use it to accuse him of spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh wait, just saw the date on the post: he definitely should have waited for the investigation to come out even though the Israeli intelligence service did turn out to be involved.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you for the correction! I swear, this kind of diligence to correctness is how the left avoids becoming a cesspit of conspiracy theories. We care about accuracy, and our history.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The left’s current conflict-avoidance has done a lot of young people dirty.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know people are reluctant to accept yet another change to what we call LLMs. But I still think “slop machine” is a better description, and will lead people to use these tools only where they are appropriate.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My prediction: the internet is going to be a permanent war zone between various nation states and billionaire self-appointed princes, with all the rest of us as collateral damage.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the left is responsible for stopping 15 year olds from saying dumb shit while the right isn’t even responsible for what the literal President says, humanity is fucked. Sometimes people are wrong on the internet.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#YourSlipIsShowing is still as relevant as when Mikki Kendall coined it

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks for the insight into the new forums! I’d written off the Intercept as a libertarian op ~a decade ago over I-don’t-even-remember what, so I hadn’t followed that migration. People in my circles are most often quoting Piker, The Bulwark, The Jacobin and A More Perfect Union.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eh, neither X community notes nor the NYT are good sources: the idea Morocco was behind it is a fascist conspiracy theory. The Spanish Prime Minister/ESISC say that Russian and Israeli intelligence services spread misinformation, but Moroccan police weren’t involved: www.reuters.com/world/spanis...

reuters.com

Spanish PM blames Russia, Israel for disinformation in Ceuta migrant crisis

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday there were signs Russia and Israel had spread the disinformation over Spain's migration policy that ‌triggered last month's rush of migrants into C...

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Online it is also impossible to tell if someone is actually-left-wing or a right-wing anti-Semite vaguely pretending to be socialist to try to recruit more anti-Semites. In person, it is a conversation instead of isolated tweets, so it is a lot harder for them to pretend.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oof. That sounds rough. Part of why I’m supportive of DSA4AOC is because some national norming could be incredibly helpful. With a democratic organization that means recruiting people across America excited about the same things.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The genocide has been the mobilizing event for a bunch of people joining the left recently. But in person, actually anti-Semitic shit goes after people’s friends and the folks who had handled the logistics. So it’s not just a moral thing or bad for the movement: it literally makes no sense.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One thing: anti-Zionist Jewish activists have been organizing for decades. The movement against the genocide in Gaza was often championed by Jewish organizers (including people arrested/fired for it, like Maura Finkelstein). When people didn’t talk about Israel, anti-Semites could hide.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have heard of one of those three, and I have no idea what he’s done since 2016. It seems like he is now best known for being related to Hassan Piker, who has taken strong stands against anti-Semitism.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Where I live they are a literal joke. Like sometimes two of them show up to some protest, but it’s always just to stand alone with a bunch of pamphlets, not actually participate. I wish they were a little more active: the unhappy Trots might go join them instead of grouching in the DSA.

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if that “intelligence” is “super”, I’d hate to see what “middling intelligence” looks like

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