Surprise. The Montreal Police shooter is a alt-right Albertan and apparent incel. Well, that's not actually a surprise now is it? The province is rife with politicians radicalizing youth and creating hatemongering turds. They're now exporting their killers www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

anyway misogyny is deadly and a deep root of current day evils disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...

something is off about the nuancing of beliefs here, like just a random mention of marx or whatever to make him sound … progressive? montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

I, too, need hundreds of billions of dollars of your money or I will go bankrupt. No, my business model is perfectly sound from a cash flow perspective. I promise this is not a scam. Fork over your pension immediately otherwise the Chinese Communist Party will take over

Investors are selling off AI-related stocks as doubts are starting to surface over whether the massive spending on AI is worth the investment or whether "it's one big bubble." n.pr/4wc0WE9

Huge thanks to the Mattering Press team, and to my co editors and all contributors. This project was a looong time in the making. Great to see it in the world, especially as predictions have become such a hot topic—

““I’m preparing to answer your questions,” I said. “With ChatGPT?” “Yes,” I said. “How else would I do it?” Apparently, “how else would I do it” is “from memory, using only my brain, like some kind of medieval peasant.” This was news to me.

“In each section, the document includes background information on the activist, their contact information if available, their social media handles and follower count, then quotes each have previously said about MSG’s facial recognition program.”

Interviewed for this "Spotlight on America" story about data center pushback, I said towns should compare what they're promised with the actual effects reported by communities that have had to live with these things mynbc15.com/news/spotlig...

so depressing

“Bercan Kilic, Shift's founder, told the BBC the goal of the data-gathering exercise is ‘to advance humanity.’” 🙄

“Le tireur responsable de la fusillade de lundi…a laissé un manifeste violent contre les femmes. Le document est représentatif du mouvement Incel, une idéologie haineuse qui appelle à une révolution violente contre le système pour des raisons masculinistes” ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/...

"Logan Mitchell, a climate scientist and analyst with Utah Clean Energy, calculated that a 9-GW gas power plant would produce about 35 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year and could raise Utah’s emissions by about 64%."

AI isn't just a bubble, it's THE bubble. Author @doctorow.pluralistic.net is our guest this week! Listen tomorrow morning starting at 5am EST. #ai #datmpodcast #bubble #datacenter

Yes, the post is real. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

🧵“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.

3/ Authors creatively explore predictions across a range of registers, including around minerals, energy, poetry, realness, folds, servers, cables, silence and love. As well as a Preface & Introduction by the Editors, includes chapters by Laura Watts, Jacqueline Jenkins, Tung-Hui Hu, Cymene Howe...

We are not really that far historically from that moment in history. The idea that there will never be a resurgence of physical violence against tech facilities seems to have become vogue among current companies. I do not think that is the case. History repeats. read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

the public meetings around data centers are getting .... heated?

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Chevron to fuel massive Microsoft data center in Texas with natural gas www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...

Huge thanks to the Mattering Press team, and to my co editors and all contributors. This project was a looong time in the making. Great to see it in the world, especially as predictions have become such a hot topic—

“It certainly looks like a bubble. Last year, two studies found that 90% of us are less likely to use a product if it is advertised as AI-enabled, and that 95% of generative AI pilot schemes are failing...” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Is anyone conducting research into software engineering professionals who are being pressured into using LLMs?

the ai industry has biosphere2 energy

5/5 Follow us on Bluesky and LinkedIn to stay up-to-date about the press. We've got a number of publications forthcoming this year and we're excited about publishing the next two Predictions Volumes in due course. Some of us will also be at the EASST conference in Kraków, #OAbooks #predictions

What a fascinating looking collection! Looking forward to digging into it.

2/ Available free to all as an #openaccess book, in multiple formats, as well as to buy as a hard copy. The book is the first in a three part series, which collectively makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of prediction.

1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

Hey, "A.i." haters in NYC! Here's a big one - this coming Wednesday at noon, the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social coalition is rallying at City Hall - and then testifying before the City Council to call for NO "A.I." IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Come join, come join! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Good to see the mainstream news media reporting on the problems of mindless hyperscale data centre builds

"Data centers are bad for people." Texas: 😴 "Data centers are bad for cows." Texas: 😱

3 Amazon software engineers advocated that the city of Seattle pause data center buildouts leading to a unanimous vote for a 1-year moratorium on new data centers in the area. Amazon initiated disciplinary action and now the workers are suing for retaliation. Did they cross the line or did Amazon?

3/ Our @WSJ investigation found that Polymarket directed creators to fake websites to create videos showing themselves placing trades. From there, it paid an army of social-media clippers to redistribute it to Americans.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

After 9 hours of debate, another #Florida county says no to a data center proposal (but it's not most sincerely dead yet). www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

ending the week with 248 copies pre-ordered, which feels pretty terrific. thank you Bluesky for buying books!!

“We think it's completely possible that with enough early imaging in the future, the world could avoid 30% of all deaths and 50% of all healthcare costs,’ the company added.” 🙄

Ladies, gentlemen, everyone between and beyond; the world doesn't need data centres

we must poison ourselves — for the economy!

www.ktvq.com/news/broadvi... Every state deserves the right to vote on whether data centers can be built &, if so, where. WE ALL NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF THESE CENTERS *BEFORE* THEY CAN CONTROL US, OUR WATER, & OUR AIR.

gift link w/ transcript etc www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet