Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥

Surprising but good

Hatred of data centers is the only bipartisan political issue in America. Incredible work by tech CEOs in uniting the country.

SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/m...

What a thin-skinned pathetic man

The data center issue is really starting to pull everyone in the same direction 💯💯💯💯🎯

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The law, sponsored by Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) and Rep. Ed Butler (R-Rickman), requires data centers that have a peak demand of at least 50 megawatts of electricity during the first 3 years of operation to pay for their own electricity infrastructure so ratepayers aren’t stuck with the bill.

News of AI cracking a famous problem in mathematics should give us all pause: This is less a technology that is "dumb and useless" than one that is dumb and useless when misapplied to the wrong areas of human endeavor. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-m...

Open-weight AI models with advanced capabilities and no safeguards are becoming much more accessible. While they can be useful, AI safety experts have concerns. n.pr/4dGpZZy

Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.

NASHVILLE — Chair of the Metro Council planning & zoning committee @rollinhorton.bsky.social just filed a bill to restrict and regulate data centers. open.substack.com/pub/westside...

Classy, like how he almost immediately closed his schools in the Bay Area after Trump was elected.

You couldn’t create a more anti-news internet if you tried www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/you-...

NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

I'm trying to think of a technology that was so roundly hated and yet pushed so hard by the government-corporate complex

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

Sure, move to a big high-rise in Riverdale, but know that the Metro North trains will keep you up all night long. They screech loudly. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

More than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to fellow journalists who are being threatened for seeking to tell the truth. #OneFreePress

2 data center developers pull Seattle plans amid opposition, talk of ban

What in the world has the Supreme Court unleashed? This gerrymandering decision is shaping up to be worse than Citizens United, which is saying something. This is truly awful.

The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...

Dutch military intelligence has warned that Russian cyber actors are partly automating their cyberattacks on Europe through the use of AI to execute their cyberattacks at a high pace www.politico.eu/article/russ...

ICYMI: Seattle officials are considering a moratorium on data centers after more than 60,000 people sent them letters demanding the City stop four companies eyeing Seattle for five new data centers. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

“What we found were thousands of conversations in which a homework helper turned into a confidant, then a suicide coach,” Maria Raine of Orange County told the California Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee on Monday.

This is a generational bag fumble by OpenAI and impressive execution by Anthropic.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

“This is not transparency.” 🚨 LAWRENCEBURG, TN folks are demanding a public hearing about a planned data center: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Byw...

And they frequently treat the court system like it’s their private playground

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

Data centers should have to pay their fair share — and take every step possible to protect working families. As electricity demand and costs rise across Illinois and the region, I’m joining governors in urging PJM to keep consumers at the center of every decision it makes.

#Earthquake (#terremoto) (#UnitedStates) 🌍 New Earthquake 🌍 📍 Location: offshore Northern California 📏 Magnitude (M): 4.6 🔽 Depth: 57.01 km ⏰ Time: 2026-04-02 08:41:23 UTC 🔗 Source: VYT Stay vigilant. If you felt it, please report your experience.

Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida’s version of the SAVE America Act into law, pro-voting groups moved swiftly to challenge the severe new voting restrictions, asking a federal court to block the state from requiring voters to prove their citizenship status.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Last year, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track AI data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. Now a new AI industry group says it will spend $100M+ on the midterms to push Trump's AI agenda. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. Be warned.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Data centers require large amounts of energy to operate — and right now they’re using up much of the energy available on the existing grid, jacking up Pennsylvanians electricity bills.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Some airports have suspended wait time data, with one advising passengers to allow four hours or more for security screenings.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

This really sucks

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Power has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in rolling out new AI data centers. That's creating an opening for investors.