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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A simple idea for regulating data center mania: "No large data center...should receive the permits or grid connection it needs unless its developer brings enough new carbon-free generation, energy storage and transmission online to meet its additional electricity demand—and pays the full cost."

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Opinion | Let Physics Regulate the AI Industry

No new data centers without enough clean power to run them.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22h

Friendly amendment to this: data centers should bring and pay for double the amount of clean energy they need. Half for them, and half for the community.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 8h

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have a thing to fix this for you

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why would you talk about the love child of Nick Offerman and Pedro Pascal like this

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My neighbor told me the Middle East keeps eating his carrier groups so I asked how many carrier groups he has he said he just goes to PACOM and gets a new carrier group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding carrier groups to the Middle East and then Pete Hegseth started crying.

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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is fucking based on grok, isn’t it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh no now I’m feeling sorta nostalgic for that vibe

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

John Sloan, "Sunset, West 23rd Street," 1905-06

Painting of an early 20th-century city skyline, with blazing sunset. In the right foreground, a woman hangs laundry on a rooftop

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just a real “let’s be real pretty before we flood your neighborhood” vibe in Red Hook tonight

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah he wrote the Elves to have their own special type of prideful assholery

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is essentially the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

I for one am tired of the “all of human existence should be quantified into spreadsheets, and things that cannot be quantified should be viewed as irrelevant and useless” faction running everything

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James Mackintosh @jmackin2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Context from Politico report at weekend: "A Government Accountability Office report from 2023 found that more than 1 million F-35 spare parts have gone missing in the past five years."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You either die a villain, or live long enough to become a cartoonishly old villain.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026

This almost always consists of conservatives saying "people no longer trust your institution" after spending decades doing everything they can to destroy trust in the institution. True of the press, true of academia, true of public health.

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I ask this question about myself all the time these days

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Better than anyone predicted” This is going to sound esoteric, but things *want* to be put right—nature, people, all of it. To restore true relationship and contingency. Think about how much sadistcally violent ongoing effort it takes to hold it/us all back. It’s not supposed to be this way.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a constituent, I volunteer as tribute

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New Mexico was called Nuevo México (or as the oath formula of the Spanish monarchs had it, "el reino de Nuevo México") before the settlement at Jamestown or the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It got that name not because of the nation of Mexico, which did not exist, but because the Nahuatl-

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‘Oh Hell No!’ Democrats Object to Trump’s Suggestion to Rename New Mexico

The president appeared to float changing New Mexico’s name to “New America.”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is exactly how the right creates popular support for taking away women’s rights. They position anyone with empathy for Clancy as the reason why women shouldn’t vote, serve on juries, have autonomy, or even exist in public. And they use this as propaganda to make those positions seem reasonable.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026

"Republicans understand that people aren’t going to read the documents behind their conspiracy theories. The truth is hard to understand and often involves complexity and nuance. They’re able to win the narrative war that way, & it’s having real consequences on people’s lives." — @ninajankowicz.com

publicnotice.co

Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

does anyone know what this is commemorating

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Based on the number of cult books on that list, my head is hurting for you

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care

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Andrew Styer @styer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

not sorry enough, clearly

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