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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...

Note: As I point out in my piece, the demonstration DHS is referencing here was led by faith leaders — seven of whom were among the 21 arrested.

I asked some of those clergy what they thought about DHS’ statement.

This was their reply: religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

This, but for single family/med-high density multifamily

Graphic showing the relationship with cities shown as dots on a triangle.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

They.
Just.
Lie.

Have Climate Finance Targets Changed What the World Bank Actually Finances? How much do World Bank targets, rules about project appraisals considering mitigation and adaptation, and a shadow price of carbon make a difference to what the World Bank actually finances? In a new ...

"It isn’t possible to know how different the World Bank's portfolio looks because of the focus on climate, nor what is the impact of that on the average local economic return to investments, nor the impact on emissions" www.cgdev.org/blog/have-cl...

Veneno v. United States – Turtle Talk Posts about Veneno v. United States written by Matthew L.M. Fletcher

turtletalk.blog/tag/veneno-v...

downloads.regulations.gov/BOEM-2025-00...

Whelp, I guess the govt is back open so it's back to deep sea mining in the pacific. BOEM has summarized the public commentary and is moving forward with environmental review. Also, they have more firms interested in leasing the bottom of the ocean and put out a map. www.boem.gov/sites/defaul...

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

NEW: Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out CFPB.

There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.

In 1983, households aged 75+ were 5% richer than the average. In 2022, they were 55% richer.

Meanwhile, under-35 households went from 21% of average wealth to just 16%.

America’s wealth is aging way faster than its population.
www.nber.org/digest/20251...

The geography of housing boom and bust cycles This study examines the synchronisation of housing boom and bust cycles across 51 countries from 2007-Q3 to 2022-Q4, focusing on the period after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). While previous r...

🏘️ NEW PAPER: How are housing booms & busts synchronized globally?

Hong and Wójcik's study of 51 countries reveals gloabl power asymmetries persist.

📖 Read in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Thanks @caraleavey.bsky.social hot off the press new paper from my ethnography of coastal towns highlighting how the political economy of housing is exploiting and harming vulnerable people and deprived communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Contextualizing the expansion of extralegal murders by the US in Latin America is necessary. The geopolitical flexing is tied to heating the warlike competition with China over global hegemony in the projected new economy. The return to craven open imperialism is centrally about minerals.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

From demolishing the East wing of the white house to lifting the French crown jewels, it's been quite a week for construction workers.

It's *so* exciting to see somebody looking at machine learning model creation holistically and seeking to rebuild it from the ground up.

"Technological development" does *not* need to look the way it does. Other things are possible!!

For more info on the project: iem.ucsd.edu/_files/GEMST...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

How Deep Sea Mining Endangers American Samoa The ocean is inseparably intertwined with American Samoa culture and identity. Now deep sea mining threatens it all.

earthjustice.org/experts/mira...

Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!

World’s coral reefs in almost irreversible die-off, scientists warn - National | Globalnews.ca For corals to recover, the world would need to drastically ramp up climate action to reverse temperatures, the scientists suggested.

Scientists have been surprised by how quickly changes are unfolding in nature, with average global temperatures already having warmed by 1.3-1.4 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average.

globalnews.ca/news/1147774...

Powerful testimony from APA to senate judiciary committee on parasocial relationships and AI www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

High Seas treaty will deal blow to deep sea mining - Miningmx A NEWLY ratified treaty protecting marine life is expected to strengthen opposition to deep-sea mining ahead of this week’s UN climate summit in New York, said the Financial Times in a report on Sunda...

High Seas treaty will deal blow to deep sea mining

www.miningmx.com/news/markets...

Experts say 800 million jobs will be lost to Artificial Intelligence and robotics by 2030.
These are the kids that will be facing that future.
How can they find a place in society?
Knowing how to fix stuff is one way.
Fixing bicycles is a great way to start.
Cooperation is so cool.

#BicyclesRecycle