Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Microsoft had pledged to save water. But now, driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, the tech giant is projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

Another great call: CALL FOR PAPERS Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms International Conference – 18–19 June 2026 Theme 2026: Error 403 – Critical Refusals Porto + online coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf... deadline: 15 January 2026

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. " www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Another aspect of the over-heated AI landscape that is raising eyebrows is the circular nature of investments....." www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

"Participants sought to distill the most important causes of authoritarian resilience; identify areas where applied research is needed to investigate these causes; and develop research priorities that could inform a collective, coordinated response." ash.harvard.edu/articles/cou...

Here’s what we did in the fall! I’ll organize something similar for the spring! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/

Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

The world's first website (simple tech that still works, doesn't cede control to an engagement-throttling, opaque algorithm or use enormous amounts of energy) info.cern.ch

old-school navigation mxb.dev/blog/webring...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

"... One indelible image of this capture is from Trump’s second inauguration, where a decisive quorum of tech’s elite, after dutifully kicking in million-dollar checks, occupied front-row seats." www.wired.com/story/silico...

🚨CASES WE’RE WATCHING TODAY🚨 ⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration. WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...

On the massive rightwing media network that Trump #NIH director Bhattacharya is deeply enmeshed with. Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps — Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

The time to protect civil rights in the digital age is now. We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.

Trump's Big Bad Ugly Bill would rip healthcare away from 5% of Americans.

I just launched Kelp UI (my UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components)! Currently in alpha. Rapidly building out the docs. Let me know what you think! 🎉🎉🎉 kelpui.com

I'm finding myself increasingly uncomfortable with the exploitive nature of charging lots of $$$ for courses when so much of how I learned to do this work was free. I've decided to refocus on making free resources. You can (100% optionally) support that work here: members.gomakethings.com

ANOTHER fossil fuelled power station specifically being built to power a new data centre, this time for Meta This serves as a great example of "just deregulate and renewables will get built by default bc they're cheap" is wrong. Big tech ❤️ fossil fuels www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ohio...

AI may be the first anti-automation tool in that it has automated the thing devs like to do (write code) and stuck them with more of what they don't like to do (fix someone else's bad code)

"Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, ... Researchers say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving cybercriminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day." apnews.com/video/billio...

What he said, and amen to it.

If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company. #nycmayoralrace gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...

Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec — and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!

“CNN has learned that all of the Democratic members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation were on the suspect’s alleged target list, according to a law enforcement source.”

#nokings It is difficult to find messaging about cancelled plans for MN protests for the rest of the day amidst safety concerns. In Duluth today we had an amazing turnout at noon. Beautiful experience in the wake of this morning's tragedy.

NEW: The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.” This is a developing story.

blocks all state and local governments from regulating AI ... "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems" for 10 years arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/g...

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options to get you started. www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Because they want to kill us, Congress voted to overturn a Clean Air Act regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial facilities like refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills. This marks the first Congressional rollback of the landmark environmental law's protections since its creation.

Finally AI has its goldmine customer ::: totalitarian governments www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

Billionaires and CEOs exploit workers with poverty wages while hoarding TRILLIONS—all by design. This rigged system isn’t a “flaw.” It’s systemic oppression.