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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In person hearing TODAY at 6pm, virtual public comment hearing at 6:00 p.m. on October 7!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...

The pivot has helped many climate tech startups land fresh funding from investors. Total venture deal value has risen for four consecutive quarters, cresting the $14 billion-mark in the first quarter of this year, according to the most recent available data from PitchBook. It’s the best fundraising environment for climate tech in the last few years, with most of the deal value driven by sectors boosted by data center construction, including the built environment, grid infrastructure, and dispatchable energy that can be turned on or off when it’s needed.

Ultimately, the undercurrent at New York Climate Week was that the data center party won’t last forever, but it might last long enough to help startups build durable businesses. Once that happens, they can refocus on the carbon-cutting mission they were founded to pursue.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to write a letter with little more than these words and send it to every elected official on the planet.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is sort of the mostly unspoken factor. If this is true, and it seems to be at at least some level, then the data centers really aren’t infrastructure. They’re more like fuel. And then the economics I think just fall apart.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again, for those in the back! (Whole thread well worth reading.)

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YCSTA: “We have a small amount of billionaires and political insiders who have made it impossible to feel confident about the future,” he says. “They’ve destabilized our ecological system. They’ve destabilized the political order.”— @wewill2026.bsky.social

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The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is how you please your two bases (with overlap): deeply insecure men and fossil fuel executives.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026

Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Big Tech IS shady. Resist, and send a message to officials and hopefuls by planning a data center moratorium action for October 4! We need YOU to fight for this world with us: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Poster with three guys in dark trench coats that say Sam, Elon, and Dario, with larger text that says Big Tech is Shady, Resist AI.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Data centers are the biggest threat to the planet since cars and trucks.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 24/09/2026

We are doing a HAPPY DANCE because the Washington State Supreme Court overturned I-2066! 👯‍♂️ Overturning I-2066 frees us up to pursue clean energy as planned, not old legacy fossil fuels. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... @climatesolutions.org @sierraclub.org @kingcountywa.bsky.social

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Absolutely this.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powering data centers with renewables is merely ONE demand of many that we need to make. Extraordinary resource use requires extraordinary regulatory juice.

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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my first intense encounter with corporate PR was during the frac boom, when companies made it sound like you were a naive dunce bc we’ve done this exact thing for decades — while failing to comment on scale and key differences. Same thing w AI now, w data centers getting orders of magnitude bigger

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Salt Creek Regrets Opening Bsky @saltcreekbrews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People are going to ask to hire this crew near their local data center

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Hold the HUMANS accountable for what their systems do. The humans' companies and individual humans themselves.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have you planned YOUR anti-data center action yet? We need Washington State to declare a moratorium so that we can decide under what circumstances—if any!—data centers benefit our communities. So our legislators need to hear us LOUD AND CLEAR. Join us on 10/4.

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MORATORIUM NOW: WA Statewide Day of Action to Stop Data Centers

We're coming together across Washington state on October 4 to make sure our leaders receive the message: we demand a moratorium and real regulation of data centers and AI that puts people first.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

'We missed the 1.5c target so that means it's too late to stop climate change' Ah, we missed the 'zero road deaths' target this year. What a shame. Time to take the hummer out, squeeze my eyes shut and smash the accelerator in a pedestrian zone. Come on people, let's make some sense here

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026

"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every day, this administration is traitorous to all that's decent and good.

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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is absolutely true, AND we need laws that place the accountability for "rogue" AI (and other mishaps) DIRECTLY at the feet of the CEO's.

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 14/09/2026

📣Huge News: Ash Grove does NOT get to burn more tires in our frontline communities! 🚫 As a result of our collective advocacy efforts backed by evidence, we got the 30% cap on tire burning reinstated at Ash Grove😎 Read more about this victory at our landing page: frontandcentered.org/environmenta...

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Environmental Justice - Front and Centered

Environmental justice is both an idea and a movement. Environmental harms are real, but it's how we respond to them that matters the most.

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Front and Centered @frontandcentered.org · 15/09/2026

New Environmental Protection Network report finds unprecedented electricity demand for AI #datacenters carries significant risks to our health. Former EPA officials & health experts document 30+ federal actions making a more polluting AI buildout more likely. safernotsicker.org/take-action/...

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The Hidden Costs of AI Data Centers - Safer Not Sicker

The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers AI data center pollution can make people sick. Instead of protecting Americans’ health, the EPA is making the health risks worse. A new report finds the unpr...

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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This puts the lie to everything they say about AI being "the future". There is no future if they continue down this path.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026

I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...

Investing.com -- Data centers in the United States are projected to consume more natural gas than most countries within the next ten years, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.

Natural gas consumption for electricity generation at data centers is forecast to increase by 15 billion cubic feet per day in the decade ending in 2035, even when accounting for planned projects that may never be completed. This volume exceeds the current gas consumption of all nations except China, Russia, Iran and the United States, based on data from the US Energy Information Administration. The projection is more than double BloombergNEF's December forecast of 6.9 billion cubic feet per day.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream. Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.

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The AI risk people actually do show their work! There are hundreds of working papers, thousands of LessWrong posts, literally entire best-selling books about this.
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show your work! is this about scaling laws or some arxiv file ive yet to read?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

it's unclear whether this is a rationalist-poisoned guy or just a deeply cynical valley guy but if you truly think this is what you and your peers are doing this is a very strange way to act. It also, as ever, doesn't deal with the actual harms happening today

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

People seem a little bit overly skeptical about the new technology, why might that be (Another former Anthropic engineer posts something floridly insane) Ah

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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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Chris Sardo @mcsardo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I read Tegmark's Life 3.0 years ago, and was struck then at his effusive praise of Musk, which should be as much of an indictment of someone's judgment as you need.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nice to see Cal Newport getting it right in the NYT. "This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant 'stewards' of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products."

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Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)

The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Concerned about data centers in Washington State, but not sure what to do about it? Join our MASS CALL on TUESDAY at 7pm, and get connected to local site fights, as well as the push for a statewide moratorium. The momentum is with us!

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Mass Call on Data Centers in Washington

You might’ve heard a lot about AI data centers—they're popping up everywhere. If you're curious about why so many people are concerned about how they're using land, water, and electricity, or if you’v...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026

fun fact! Musk's fossil fuelled data centres almost certainly emit more climate pollution than is saved by all Tesla vehicles ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres wipe out either a large chunk or more than all of Tesla's global avoided emissions
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026

I have become pretty obsessed with why people - including many climate and renewable advocacy groups - keep insisting that "data centres will drive the energy transition" Here is a ~5,000 word essay I wrote on my blog that digs into why this keeps happening -->>> ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/p...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026

sorry to go publicly mad here but: aren't the impacts of 0 -> 1.5c the **LEAST WORST** impacts of climate change? Wouldn't the "worst" be like.....4C and greater? WHICH WE CAN SPECIFICALLY STILL CHOOSE TO FUCKING AVOID IF WE DON'T BURN THE SHIT OUT OF A SHITLOAD OF FOSSIL FUELS?

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Chris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The view of a parking garage from the parking lot on the UC Irvine campus where obviously a dean of public health would ask themselves "What's up with all these e-bikes?!"

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