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Microsoft Warns Investors About Local Opposition to Data Centers Microsoft Corp. is warning investors about a new risk to its expansive data center plans: local backlash.

"Opposition is growing toward data center projects, which frequently require massive amounts of electricity and often win tax breaks from state and local officials."

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cat bonds? “this complex financial instrument is sold as the silver bullet for climate finance. In reality they have given institutions like the World Bank the perfect neoliberal policy for climate (in)action / provided extremely lucrative windfalls for hedge funds” on.soundcloud.com/LOCZIovQCLrI...

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human. 1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tbh AI makes me wish I was 61 and closer to escaping from it

thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again

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Corporate live chat rules:

1) You shall wait 82 minutes to speak with a human.

2) When you speak to a human, they shall take between 30 seconds and 8 minutes to reply.

3) If at any point, you do not reply to the human within 2 minutes, you shall be... ~cut off~

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

The political-economy of generative AI seems to mark a wider systemic shift from the greenwashing of 'green growth' to the open nihilism of 'growth! screw the green!'.

Text on a green background that shows the new Points piece titled "Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific" by Emma Quilty. This blog is part of the series called "The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction."

As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, @emmaquilty.bsky.social considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people. datasociety.net/points/confr...

the Tesla pumpers really having to take the most cynical bullshit imaginable, combine with two parts copium, cook that down until crystals form, and then smoke it off foil just to feel anything

jesus christ. transport regulators need to get their acts together.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

they’re reaching out to the 5-10 upper class liberals that remain

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

this is the stupidest shit ever. dems want to be republicans so bad it hurts they can't. you might as well just change your registration to republican, all but abt three of them are espousing anything even vaguely progressive www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

A Manhattan Project to create exits for venture capital

The correct read on the ‘tech right’ is not that they are Machiavellian ubermensch supervillains but a band of arrogant dumbasses that fell into the “haha, I’ll use play this idiot populist like a fiddle…oh no” trap

I also have a limited podcast series coming out the same day as my book GILDED RAGE (official announcement to come). After that, I need a job or another book to write.

Generative AI is a tool for fascism, example one million

I'm just gonna say it, because why not:

The discourse on AI on Bluesky is a weird mix of spot-on (but sort of by accident?) and poorly informed. Even / especially if your entire goal is to fight something you find monstrous and irredeemable, you gotta understand it better than what's on offer here.

Theseus the Tank Engine

China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar.

@katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...

short king with chicken legs 🤣🤣🤣

The surveillance, theft and death machine recommends more surveillance to balance out the death.

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Immigrants make the country great

Instagram flagged a story that says “immigrants make the country great” as Sensitive Content on my feed.

Really glad we let these tech billionaires control all of our communications infrastructure and make the digital architecture racist.

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares On the Interpretation of Nightmares

We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
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The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo