iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is obscene for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the climate dimension as I wrote about back when the US extrajudicially kidnapped Maduro in January climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/trumps-ill...

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Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster

Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production would produce new annual emissions higher than the carbon footprints of France, the UK, or Thailand

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Energy-sucking private data centers were never and still are not inevitable. They represent a fairly recent and very specific relationship to computing that is dependent on the cheap, primitive accumulation of personal data. It could easily be different with a modicum of imagination.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’ve never utilized YouTube, but I’m throwing myself back into filmmaking. I’ll be posting new stuff and updates on an evolving feature doc about the construction of the Micron semiconductor facility in Clay, NY. Subscribe for updates, and check out some old work too! youtube.com/@zanegtcoope...

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Zane G.T. Cooper

Hi! I’m Zane! I am a filmmaker, writer, recovering academic, and an artist fervently trying to understand what it means to be a real, fleshy, emotional person in this increasingly unrecognizable worl...

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Our age of bronze is collapsing” 🫠🫠🫠

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The new Neuromancer adaptation feels off. The look is too clean, the people too pretty, and somehow it’s the wrong color.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026

Is it carbon monoxide

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Knicks winning is somehow a fuck you to AI data centers.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Agreed. This is a winning issue. And it’s not even entirely about the structures themselves or their energy use. “Data center” has become an affective trigger signaling the ever-growing pile of inequalities and injustices foisted upon the working class by billionaire robber barons.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Stop taking their insane claims at face value. For one, space isn’t “cold.” It’s a vacuum. Cooling in space isn’t “free” as Musk et al. claim because there’s no medium (like an atmosphere) to move the heat. The ISS uses a dual-loop system of water and ammonia to convert heat to infrared radiation.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It didn’t have to be this way. The current data center heat issue is not just a material problem but an epistemic one that stems in part from debates at The Macy Conferences that led to the omission of heat and materiality from early foundations of information theory. meson.press/wp-content/u...

Digital computing cannot function without the spinning up of heat,
yet the production and disposal of heat are largely absent from
information theory, even though the concept of entropy (adapted
from the second law of thermodynamics) remains central to how
information scientists think about information and its relationship
to signal and noise (Serres 1982; Shannon and Weaver 1949).
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, notably at the Macy Conferences
on Cybernetics, explicit moves were made to shift ideas about
information away from its situatedness within the thermodynamics
of heat and toward more abstract, fungible, contextless, and
meaningless frames. Claude Shannon, for one, heavily influenced
by Gibbs’s theories of statistical mechanics (Shannon and Weaver
1949), defined information as first and foremost a “probability
function with no dimensions, no materiality, and no necessary
connection with meaning” (Hayles 1999). In this way, information
became a proxy for control and order in a given system, for which
the system’s materiality and production of heat were considered
as waste, externalized, and rendered incidental (Hayles 1999; Kline
2015). This act of wasting is a “technique of power” (Liboiron and
Lepawsky 2022, 3) that has increasingly migrated the visibility of
computing’s heat problems away from end users, offloading them
into mammoth data centers, tucked away, out of sight. Here com-
puter and architectural engineers work in relative opacity to direct
heat through and out of the viscous darkness of vast infrastructural
black boxes.

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“Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals.”

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Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I know that almost no one in the US really loves thinking about The Bus, but our new report from @cplusc.bsky.social and @jstehlin.bsky.social is outstanding. It would be pretty cheap and easy for many cities across the US to make buses fast and free, reducing emissions and costs for working people

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Fast and Free Buses Can Work in NYC and Beyond

New report shows how bus transit can quickly lower costs and emissions across the US

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is really the only correct take here about ai-generated media.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone wants to know where the party is, and it’s here: The NCCS data center proposal meeting at Massena Town Hall

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Very excited for this workshop tomorrow! Our LandSeaSky team is on Haida Gwaii doing a series of workshops and talks on local internet infrastructure and the specter of AI hovering over futures of creativity and connection.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ever since my first Discman, I’ve always wanted my headphones to have shitty pervert cameras in them, so this is great news 🫠 www.engadget.com/2167325/im-a...

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I'm already dreading Apple's camera-equipped AirPods - Engadget

Must everything be part of the panopticon?

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

lol academia is so completely captured. This is a joke.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The concept of data centers (distinct from libraries, archives, etc) emerged during the Cold War, referring to statistical agencies utilizing mainframe computing. Outcry over the proposed centralization of these agencies (and their surveillance capabilities) led directly to the 1974 Privacy Act.

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a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The data center rebellion is just the start, or it should be. Rather than impeding AI governance, this is where good, truly democratic AI governance begins. A look at who's fighting data centers, why, and how a working class resistance can lay the groundwork for a better AI politics:

bloodinthemachine.com

The data center rebellion is only the beginning

And it's precisely what democratic governance of AI looks like.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Other than obscene amounts of capital, there is little meaningful distinction between this vision and any other religious doomsday cult.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The ubiquity of smart glasses depends largely on the off-chance that they won’t be widely used to sexually harass women, but that currently seems to be their primary purpose.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Have you ever felt like your favorite pasta sauce had too little electronic surveillance? If so, you’re in luck!

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Geese is getting cancelled because their label hired a digital marketing team is hilarious. What were they supposed to do?

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Do you live near a data center? Do you know anyone who lives near a data center? I want to talk to you! jael@heatmp.news

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The ENIAC was developed by the U.S. Army and its first use was to model the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, so kind of?

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Data centers (in their current form) are deeply contingent upon the imaginaries of a platformized web, which began consolidating in the mid-2000s. They are far from inevitable and alternatives already exist. They’re just not as cheap, ubiquitous, nor profit-generating.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We are so not in a bubble, it’s crazy.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

“All that is old shall be new again” or something…

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Increasingly feel like I need to quit my job so I can spend all my time fighting every single one of these toxic projects.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My anxiety disorder was not made to handle 2026’s particular cocktail of shit. Every day is a new pantheon of horrors.

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that could exempt companies from liability in the event that frontier models…cause “critical harms,” like creating a weapon of mass destruction, killing more than 100 people, or causing at least $1 billion in property damage.” The bill in question:

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Illinois SB3444 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

Bill Text (2026-03-27) AI MODEL SAFETY [Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 24, 2026]

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Kinda seems like people don’t really like data centers. Probably because they have shitty value propositions and produce basically no jobs. Perhaps it’s an opportune time to broadly rethink our material relationships to computing?

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

All life on earth will eventually fold into one big data-harvesting mobile game.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Rewatching Interstellar and it turns out the most unrealistic part of the movie is not the whole flying through a black hole thing, but that the AI robot can keep an accurate timer.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This could be good actually: Step 1: Convince all CEOs to build AI versions of themselves Step 2: Sleeper shareholder activists fire all CEOs and turn corps into worker-owned co-ops because we don’t need CEOs Step 3: Workers seize means of production Step 4: Marx wins www.ft.com/content/0210...

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Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Highly recommend the show La Brea. It’s like if Lost were written by a 5th grader. At least half of the biggest plot points of the first season (maybe first 2) of Lost were rattled off one after the other in 40 minutes during the pilot.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Maybe hoarding all the wealth and building products no one wants that actively harm society in increasingly violent ways was a bad call. Historically speaking, "Fuck you, poors. Eat my slop," has generally not been a winning message.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

People obviously love generative AI and want more of it in their lives.

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Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

AI Data centers are swiftly becoming the dominant signposts for late-stage capitalist rot. @jael.bsky.social is right. It will only get worse.

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