Trump to sign order as soon as Monday to dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments www.abc4.com/news/politic...

The AI Empire at work:

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Elon Musk has taken more than $38 billion from the US government. He built his empire on government subsidies. Now he wants to ensure that nobody else gets help from the government ever.

“Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.” - Bernie Sanders

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

data visualization is my passion.

Trump is preparing to fire the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious scientific and historical research and education organizations. He wants in particular to censor the Smithonian's American History exhibits:

This is NOT OKAY

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

The Cheyenne, Wyoming, Board of Public Utilities identified Goat Systems LLC, a contractor working on #Meta ’s in-progress #DataCenter campus in the High Plains Business Park, as the source of the bacteria Cupriavidus gilardii in the city’s wastewater treatment system.

This Independence Day, I’m excited to announce the launch of my revolutionary AI-powered learning platform - Uncle Scam - that uses the latest in total data surveillance technologies plus bonus analytics to both personalize and democratize education like nothing you’ve ever seen! 🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate

Tech companies need to be understood as surveillance machines Engage accordingly

Human beings havent evolved to survive this level of heat. Oh well. Let's build more AI data centers and kill regulations.

If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Spot the difference

america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

The right Q

Why the fuck is billionaire US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick sitting next to FIFA President Gianni Infantino? Because corruption loves a partner in crime.

Their religious texts (bible & constitution) are just tools--every word is flexible. Their only purpose is as a justification for their own actions and punishment for those they identify as enemies.

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

vindication for @basel.bsky.social!!!!!

The roots of some of our worst climate policies, it turns out, lie in an intellectually corrupt Ivy League collab with Big Oil. It should piss you off billmckibben.substack.com/p/youre-payi...

‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

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This is so stupid. And unconstotutional. At the same time: what is really funny to me about this is taking a religion course and reading the whole bible in HS really radicalized me because it remember going "THIS is the text folks use to justify hatred, racism, homophobia, etc?!?"

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

really disappointing.

To all the moms worried about Roundup poisoning your kids, this Supreme Court just gave you the middle finger and Monsanto a get-out-of-jail free card. Keep an eye on this extreme “preemption doctrine” as a precursor to shielding Big Tech from any accountability for AI harms.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Remember that meta-study of ChatGPT effects on learning that got retracted by SpringerNature recently? Here's a new paper showing why it and others like it can't be trusted due to serious issues with the underlying literature. Bluntly put, they're meta-reviews of junk science doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

literally watergate

"A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own" yes, rights for tree is a thing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out f thin air simply tO protect one man from his own embarrassing failure. There is no sabotage. This is insane.

Peter said it loud for folks like me in the back