Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

At least 1 dead, 9 others missing in chemical tank implosion at Washington state mill (Washington)

Californians, today is a good day to complain to your elected officials about our state emergency alert system still forcing people to open links from X/Twitter - a site run by a genocidal madman that often forces you to log in just to see content.

Two guys that only a mother who was actually a sock puppet account could love.

Tiny bubbles make me happy Especially when they burst.

They're doing something unspeakable in the camps but they'd drive over the protestors just for love of the game.

what are they doing in those camps that has them driving over protestors to hide

21 states with bathroom bans. assuming this is current. i think it is? it sure hasn’t gone down! criminal penalty states? 3 now. a trans woman in an idaho women’s room could rack up a felony for it. kansas intro’d a bounty system where random people can sue a trans person in the right bathroom.

sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

that’s right!!

remember that time Zelensky didn’t wear a tie

Always here for art that fucks with minimalist art: Voluspa Jarpa's "Judd Shaft," 2016-2014. A stainless steel sculptures threaded with transparencies of CIA communiqués related to the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile.

It was all taken away just as we experienced the worst inflation of many people's lives. And just a few years after the long austere recovery from the Great Recession.

You can collect all the macroeconomic data you want, but we are meant to believe that millions of people having to pay student loans after a multiyear reprieve, child poverty doubling again after being cut in half, and credit card debt soaring isn't relevant and it's just vibes?

Something never discussed in the "vibecession" debate is that the country lived through a huge expansion of the welfare state and then saw all of those programs taken away. It has long been conventional wisdom that taking away social programs leads to huge backlash. Nobody applies that to COVID.

The CDC is asking employees to volunteer to do airports across the US to perform Ebola screenings. Public health is underfunded. That puts your life at risk.

There’s a paragraph in there where the techs & doctors forced them to watch & hear their child die on ultrasound. Nobody should be forced to do this. Wanted, unwanted, doesn’t matter. It’s not medically necessary. It’s simply torture. And it’s evil, especially while the docs aren’t doing the work.

I dropped everything to draw this friend

I better not see a single one of you watching the World Cup on a non-pirated broadcast

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

Sen. Van Hollen: Can I ask you to commit that the Justice Department will not pardon anyone named in the Epstein files? Acting AG Blanche: *Avoids question* #momsky #sheshed

Immigrant rights advocates warn that some cooperation between police and ICE often persists even when the most visible partnerships are banned. “When informal collaboration happens, it is usually not very transparent to the public," says one expert.

John Steinbeck on how – a forgotten nonfiction masterpiece between marine biology and philosophy composed two decades before he won the Nobel for his novels: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/09/s...

I hate Howard Jarvis. It's not a raging fire, but I can't shed my anger over how much damage the three prongs of Prop 13 have altlered, and continue to gut, California's finances.

Massive Atlantic ‘Cocaine Highway’ Busted in European Maritime Drug Operation gcaptain.com/massive-atla... Without blowing up any boats? Huh.

The government of the Northwest Territories and the territory’s Fire Chiefs Associations are launching a new program called the Wildland Urban Interface and will be focused on improving wildfire protection.

Residents along Lake Victoria are protesting a government plan to build a 2,000-megawatt nuclear plant. While officials call it a green transition, a local petition warns of displacement, radioactive waste risks, and threats to Africa’s largest freshwater lake. mongabay.cc/UMzcWB

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

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Puget Sound Energy filed an interconnection request with BPA for a 958 MW data center at what appears to be the Goldendale site. If built, the data center could require ~80% of the 1,200 MW of energy the Goldendale pumped storage project could generate. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/25/g...

I finally scored a hard copy of one of the best most well-made documentaries you'll ever see on *any* subject, and easily a top 5 about the art, craft, and industry of making film. SIDE BY SIDE, by Keanu Reeves. His side gig as a documentarian is a gift to us all.

I know it's alphabetical coincidence but I'm still snickering at the prominence of Cameron and Fincher's names as they are the interviewees who make the strongest case AGAINST what they're advocating for (the eradication of photochemical film in the movie industry) just by being themselves. 😂

The segment towards the end with Reeves interviewing Cameron is an all-time "in their own words" cautionary early glimpse into the techbro mentality and how it's entirely founded on and has no room for anything but misanthropy, hate, arrogance, and a full dehumanization of everyone who's not them.

I was a fellow guest speaker at a virtual neurodivergence corporate initiative along with Dr. Dan @danielwendler.com recently and he’s the real deal.

Data center battles started in the states. Now it’s Congress under siege. scdailygazette.com/2026/05/25/r... by @statesnewsroom.com's David Lightman

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

With the Callais decision, the Supreme Court has created a path for state legislators to disenfranchise Black voters in the South. We’ve been here before. Here’s how we can make sure this time is different:

Fuck yes.

Yes, local news is starting to dig in to records of GKN Aerospace. Not finding a ton at this site and they have 30 locations worldwide (including 10 in the US, 1 in Mexico, 1 in Canada), so this may take some time. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/g...

It sickens me that they were so afraid of her getting elected to congress that they committed election interference via prosecutorial fuckery. It doesn't get more fascist than that. "At this point your existence is a threat." really hits home either way.

The Mexican surveillance giant is expanding into the U.S. after building a 20-floor intelligence tower and drone network along the border https://restofworld.org/2026/mexico-seguritech-government-surveillance-contracts/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

The second best phrase I’ve heard for very warm weather is from the US South and goes “it’s hotter than two hamsters fucking in a wool sock.” And the best phrase I’ve heard is from Afrikaans and goes die hond die kat jaag, maar beide loop. It means “the dog is chasing the cat, but both are walking.”

Day 2 of #BlackBirdersWeek is all about Migration 🌎 Migration is one of my favorite times of the year. Birds endure storms, exhaustion, predators, light pollution, habitat loss, and thousands of miles… yet they arrive and they sing. 🎶🥹🪶 #BlackInNature #BirdJoy #Birding #WiscoBirder

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

Also Texas races are mostly on Saturdays and this week they are TUESDAY. So between it being a runoff and on a different day, turnout will be low, which means EVERY VOTE COUNTS even more than in the original primary. www.thedailyelm.com/p/election-d... 2/2

light that damn thing up. they need to see the fire that knows your name.

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

‘“It’s the first deep-sea octopus from the Equatorial Pacific in the east,” Voight  says. “It represents everything in the deep sea that we don’t even know exists. We talk about deep-sea mining but we don’t know what is there and we’re putting it all at risk. There are extraordinary things there.”’