A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Amid Meta's mass layoffs and a hard pivot to AI, one engineer posted a scorched-earth farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board. We got our hands on it.

In the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, the group Stop the Hermantown Data Center claims the city improperly changed its 2045 comprehensive plan and rezoned the neighborhood where the data center is proposed to be built.

"In other words, metaphorically speaking, politics and other systems of information dissemination are holding onto the tail of a 16-foot crocodile that grows longer, stronger and hungrier by the day." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...

free webinar May 5: Artificial Reason: A Conversation on AI, Rationality, and Violence secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

collecting some info here: democracydefenders.work/datacenters....

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW

"Join us in the MN Capitol Rotunda on Earth Day, April 22nd, from 1:30-3pm for a Community Hearing on Data Centers! " riseandrepair.org/earthday

"Yesterday Apple Maps removed the names of nearly every town and village in Lebanon. Google Maps still showed them, and every other mapping service still showed them. Apple’s version showed the roads, the borders, the coastline, but the towns had no names" thedreydossier.substack.com/p/iran-why-t...

love "memory workers" — "The expansive growth of the web and social media and the wide use of these platforms by Black people presents significant opportunities for archivists and other memory workers interested in documenting the contemporary Black experience. " www.archivingtheblackweb.org

This week we welcome 23 brilliant fellows from across the African Diaspora as part of our 2nd cohort of the Web Archiving School Fellowship. We encourage you to stay connected with us all year as we share their journeys, stories and growth in the program! www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

Let's please also acknowledge the work of @sarahlamdan, who's been documenting this phenomenon for years — and who wrote a whole book about it!

Trump hits new approval low among all adults, rounding to -21 for first time  fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Anthropic’s Claude Constitution sets out safety and ethical rules, but does not explicitly reference human rights, writes Yuval Shany. Recent clashes with the DoD and reported military use highlight its limits and gaps in safeguards and accountability in high-risk deployments, he argues.

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