Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre... 🧵 (1/4) #datacentre #ai

Artificial intelligence models are already “cheating, deceiving & going their own way” duh 🙄 because built by…men…funded by tech billionaires in a hurry to make… more money #ai #technology #billionaires not to mention how it’s fk*%ng our environment www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A doco just came out about Citizens assemblies....so moving! It tracks a real one in the #usa during COvid in 2020, tough times. You can watch it for free now. I recommend checking it out goodbyepoliticians.movie #democracy #politics#citizensassembly #billionaires

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. With: 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5K mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.

.."Greenhouse gas emissions rose 18%, the largest annual increase Google has reported, driven largely by manufacturing AI hardware, including chips and servers." www.axios.com/2026/06/30/g...

Great to be out in Prahran again today (despite the rain!) talking to the community about defending and doubling public housing, free and frequent public transport, and protecting our climate!

#politics #democracy #ai #tech “(they)promise the masses history is settled, the future written & you need only fall in line…Nothing is settled while people are still free to begin again. That is not consolation. It is a responsibility & it is handed every morning to you” youtube.com/shorts/uHmFu...

chapter & verse on why the oligarchs’ pursuit of the AI arms race is a (the?) central issue of our times. Did you know China is developing open source AI? substack.com/@empathicrev...

Data centres #ai #technology The latest environmental & climate shtfkry. Fossil fuel industry is wrapt. #environment #climate In May, Utah gave approval to a centre twice the size of Manhattan. Happening here in #australia Geelong land for housing vanished. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If reading Sarah Martin's stories in this 🧵 has given you the distinct impression that you, an Australian taxpayer, are being fleeced by Pauline Hanson's One Nation grift-operation masquerading as a political party—you're right!

Want to fight against billionaires buying our democracy? #australia #politics #billionaires #taxtherich #protest Follow us here @beyondbillionaires.bsky.social www.beyondbillionaires.org

Want to fight against billionaires (& the trillionaire) buying our democracy? #australia #politics #billionaires #taxtherich #protest Follow us here beyondbillionaires.org

Funded by…billionaires #auspol #australia #politics #democracy #billionaires Buying political parties, turning democracy into corporate oligarchy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🤮state capture #auspol

Fri 26 Jun Europe endures yet another catastrophic heatwave, people die & more will as heat continues, nuclear reactors are shut down as cooling fails, hospitals struggle In Australia, the @albomp.bsky.social govt entertains fracking in the Kimberley, at Beetaloo & still MORE Coal & Gas approvals

Passionate speech joins the dots between data centres, fossil fuels, big money, environmental & health damage #ai #technology #aimoratorium Australia, we have this fight too #auspol youtu.be/VXGbmQwSdC8

Wow! This is a must watch video from Punters Politics on big money & government being about to sell us out on data centres. This deserves to go viral. #ai #technology #environment #australia #taxtherich #wealth #economy youtu.be/VWJ17P1dsqY

Greg Jericho has been doing a great job picking up the utter complicity of the corporate media with Gina’s Hanson project.

Land. Energy. Water. Noise. We need a moratorium on data centres until appropriate regulation is in place to protect local communities, our environment, our climate #australia Stop all the quiet approvals #auspol www.theage.com.au/national/vic... archive.md/eUSho

#auspol #australia #taxtherich #tax Stop NEW fossil fuel exploration Stop all fossil fuel subsidies Tax fossil fuel exports www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What other industry would get away with this? 🤔 Well maybe perhaps possibly (probably) fossil fuels #gas #coal #australia #auspol (& the #politics industry?) www.theage.com.au/environment/... archive.md/BuS7S

EJA’s webinar gave a run-down of the whole sordid native logging transition story & info that never made it to 4 Corners. Like $600 million of $1.5 BILLION unaccounted. #auspol #australia #environment Please email Watt & Albonese All needed info is here👇Thanks envirojustice.org.au/email-the-pm...

1/ Spotlight on the money- $1.5 billion #australia #environment The fact that native forest logging is still happening in Vic under another guise with no oversight whatsoever wasnt even touched on. 4Corners Timber Turmoil iview.abc.net.au/show/four-co...

Here's how the government can afford to continue the halving of the fuel excise at the current rate: A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $350 million a week in revenue, with a weekly net surplus of $138m! Join the call for a national plebiscite: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/

Sorry to be blunt but when Albanese says gas is "needed" for the energy transition, it's a huge, stinking big old lie :) TY for having me @nellistevenson!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlL...

#australia #environment #auspol #gas environmentvictoria.org.au/our-campaign... Sharing this important campaign from Environment Vic to stop Dutch company Vopak building a gas import terminal in Port Phillip Bay! There’s a guide, submission can be short Submissions due this Friday 26

At the end of June, the halving of the fuel excise ends. It costs the government $212 million a week. You know what raises $350 million a week in revenue? A 25% tax on gas exports! Join the call for national plebiscite: https://gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au/

“What happened to an “end of logging” (native forest) in Victoria? Why are forests across the country still being logged when we know the industry is haemorrhaging money, driving species to extinction, destroying ecosystems?” #australia #environment #forest #nature www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

The “let me explain why Hansons speech was a success” columns are truly condescendingly putrid.

EJA releasing a new report, Following the money: The unfinished transition away from native forest logging. Where the claims of $1.5 billion of public money funding the transition actually went & why Victoria’s forests still lack protection. #environment #auspol envirojustice.org.au/webinar-foll...

Want to fight against billionaires (& the trillionaire) #australia #politics #billionaires #taxtherich #protest #democracy beyondbillionaires.org

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Resist! Sign this petition that the govt “ensure(s) the environmental, cultural, social & infrastructure implications of the proposed Victorian AI Hub are fully assessed & publicly considered” and are in the best interest of us all. #ai #tech www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Is it not crazy we need to ask the govt do the job we pay them for ie “ensure environmental, cultural, social & infrastructure implications of the proposed Victorian AI Hub are fully assessed & publicly considered” 🙄 anyway I signed #ai #tech #australia www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

“Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don’t have a billionaire wealth problem”. #billionaires #economy What do they do with all that money? Buy our political system. #politics #democracy #inequality Likewise in #australia www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

Please read my 75pp submission on the #AtlasNetwork's 40 yr old global disinformation campaign against climate policy here: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... Full report of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...

We must do all we can so Australia and we - Aussies - do not head down MAGA Lane. I hereby call on all my peers at every newspaper and media outlet to grow a spine and call it out. Are you journalists or just PR writers? The choice now is yours.

“You want to stop the far right…To do that you’re going to have to win not just this election but the one after that. I’m going to tell you how we can do that” Gary Stevenson. The People’s Economist. #democracy #politics #economy youtu.be/NFL8Hvglij0

Fri 12 Jun Still no response to our letter to Josh Burns on our 1-year anniversary of weekly Fri protests 👎33 approvals of new/extensions of Coal & Gas projects Will the @albomp.bsky.social govt agree with WA EPA (srsly WTF🤯) & allow fracking of the Kimberley❓️ #LaborClimateAction

We could pay for all of this if we had a fair taxation system. #billionaires #taxtherich #politics #auspol #democracy

How much growth is needed to achieve good lives for all? Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people requires only 30% of current global resource & energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for eg scientific advancement & social investment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Very smart analysis here. If you think AI is a bubble, think again. There was a railway bubble which burst but the infrastructure remains, in that case powering the Industrial Revolution. This one is happening thousands of times faster. #ai #australia #technology open.substack.com/pub/rutgerbr...

Fri 5 Jun Always great when our protest crew of 10 climate & environment grps is joined by new friends‼️ #EndFossilFuels ACF Macnamara Bayside Climate Crisis Action Grp Beyond Coal & Gas Macnamara Climate Choir Melb Environment Vic SE XR Port Phillip GECAN PECAN PPGreens St Kilda Baptist Church

Fin Review writer outlines Atlas links backing One Nation. Right-wing billionaire-backed Institute for Public Affairs (IPA)-linked Tim Wilson MP refused to rule out forming government with it 🤮 #auspol #democracy #billionaires #australia open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

"This webinar is for forests movement allies who want to understand what’s at stake, what stronger regulation could look like, & how communities can push for real forest protection as govts decide what comes next We’ll also share implications for forest advocacy & reform effort" Pls SHARE‼️

Free Webinar with @envirojustice.bsky.social TMR! Wed 10 June, 12–1 PM (ACT/VIC/NSW/TAS) EJA will "unpack the risks of weak replacement mechanisms – including the possibility of an “RFA exemption 2.0” & explore what stronger, more accountable regulation could look like"

just saw this thing about ai data centers needing 264 billion gallons of water in 2025. with droughts getting worse, how does this even work long-term? big questions for where we're headed. Speaking of tech — practice English with AI: https://app.speakfloe.com/#/onboarding/goals

How much is too much? #billionaires #taxtherich Even millionaires think extreme wealth should be taxed more. #democracy #politics #justice #australia youtube.com/shorts/xNbKE...

My good mate @aaronsmith333.bsky.social wrote this stunning piece about 1 week as a political staffer in Canberra I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, just writing, that I have ever read Seriously illuminating 👇🏽 aaronsmith333.substack.com/p/my-own-sta...