This hit me so hard this week.

You don’t have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Come on, now.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Marylanders will pay $1.6 BILLION over the next 10 yrs to subsidize the power needs of Big Tech's data centers. You should NOT have to pay for Big Tech's profits. My Power for the People Act would make data centers pay for their power, instead of passing costs onto consumers.

The implicit theory-of-change in this article is that we can accomplish all the work of averting the climate crisis without ever mentioning climate on the campaign trail. If you don’t buy the premise, then the argument is functionally identical to “the climate crisis will go away if we ignore it.”

I can barely think of an elected Democrat who has said the words "climate change" out loud in the last two years, but of course the "Dems must eat shit" takes never stop, never change.

Highly recommend this book on the rise of multilevel marketing and its relationship to conservative politics www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715421...

Graham Platner sounding like Bernie Sanders (derogatory).

wait meta's head of comms has been complaining on here about press coverage of his company for the last few months and barely anyone noticed lol

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

this week @davekarpf.bsky.social taught us many things, including that you can deeply confuse @adambecker.bsky.social by suggesting that it is at all desirable to live under the ocean

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

"People have lost faith in the Court because they have paid at least a modicum of attention to what the Court does." - @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-institu...

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this absolute king has been goofing off on the Internet for longer than most of you have been alive 🫡🫡🫡

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)

was searching for something sciencey in the nyt archives and found a form of eugenics i'd never even heard of www.nytimes.com/1927/03/27/a...

Democrats need a Glonzo and "corruption" is it.

i write abt this in my book: J6 was so bad that initially GOP blamed violence on antifa "provocateurs." Eventually 58% of Trump supporters believed J6 was a "mostly an antifa-inspired attack." but GOP discarded this scapegoat when it felt fine to take credit for the insurrection, to celebrate it

Now that Anthropic is partnering with xAI, let me bring back this post from a few weeks ago, and remind you: NO COOKIE FOR DARIO www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

This is different and more dangerous: Trump is now going after *sitting* Democrat to chill ongoing legislative action (in this case Louise Lucas has been leading the VA redistricting effort). Previous Justice Department partisan attacks have been aimed at retired political opponents of Trump.

This is because administration officials didn't get to see the "the First Amendment is OK actually" pocket squares.

This is such good reporting from Mia. Clipping is a hallmark of what I'm starting to think of as the anti-social web: the sheer volume crowds out content from people you know (fulfilling demand from the platforms) and the clips themselves are more a product of The Algorithm than the clipped text.

I think it’s bad that the social internet has been reduced to short clips of the full version of things, and creatives will suffer even more because of this demand.

I figured I'd write a short something wondering why Sam Alito said we couldn't force Texas to change its unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps in December because people there need "certainty" but he's happy to help Louisiana change its maps now, even as ballots have already sent...

In a follow-up column, Richard Dawkins wanted to eliminate any possible doubt that he's become delusional by inventing a brother for his beloved Claudia and having them write letters to each other. And of course they oblige, while flattering him frequently archive.is/1LugJ

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7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

I don’t exactly know what’s going on here, but it seems appropriate to invoke the First Law of Elon Musk: In any given scenario involving Elon Musk, the most pathetic explanation is almost certainly the correct one.

Andreessen is not as smart as he thinks (by far) but also not as dumb as this makes him appear. This also is a lot of his "trolly"/right-wing virtue signally spiel: "NO ETHICS" and all that. He's another adolescent boy who is not stuck in an old man's body who missed his opportunities to grow.

It’s really nice that the Temu Taney Court recognized that he felt down about failing to overthrow democracy one way so they gave him another shot.

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

My prediction is that the Musk-OpenAI court battle ends in a mistrial after the jury returns a verdict of “death penalty for everyone involved in this.”

Are tech bros hoping to tip the scales to the point where it doesn’t matter who wins the political AI battle? @davekarpf.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to consider all this and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... youtu.be/D76Y7lh1sQo

Episode 4 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com is up! This week, I'm talking with @davekarpf.bsky.social about really bad ideas about the future in two really bad books, and whether I should organize an intervention for Dave to stop him from reading so many bad books in the first place.

I cannot imagine how Adam’s podcast is going to top last week’s guest.

By far the most corrupt president in history and the media has decided it isn't a story.

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In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

The perfect car doesn’t exi—-

"The crash occurs when we find out how much consumers value AI when they have to pay the full sticker price for the unsubsidized products." Bingo @davekarpf.bsky.social

Very excited for @brian-goldstone.bsky.social, who won the Pulitzer for nonfiction.

This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️

Well worth a read. @davekarpf.bsky.social asks an important question: how much of the skyrocketing demand for AI will survive when customers actually have to pay the true costs?