when you burn through a half-trillion dollars and have nothing to show for it

Given the juggernaut companies that use data centers the most and the pits of vipers they keep on staff to counter negative PR, the overwhelmingly negative public backlash to data centers is pretty incredible. Bipartisan hatred in what's probably the most polarizing timeline that will ever exist.

they’re not “replacing workers with AI” they are doing a much older thing that is making the people who are left do all the work

"Risky pivot"

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Welcome back House Un-American Activities Committee

You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

This is approximately 15 times more than the $1.7 billion that Obama released to Iran in 2016 (which was owed to the country) that Trump hasn't shut up about and cited as a prime reason to scuttle the JCPOA.

“Trump and Musk [dismantled] the important SEC protections investors and consumers rely on to protect them from unfettered profit-seeking… The schemes of Trump and Musk to weaken investor protections will enrich them and their allies at the expense of the rest of us.” Alexandra Thornton, March 2025

“The Sistine Chapel of Trump corruption… Trump wants to drop his IRS lawsuit in exchange for a $1.7 BILLION fund for [Trump crony] ‘victims’ of government ‘weaponization’ … The corruption has become so commonplace that it’s not news.” @chrislhayes.bsky.social An impeachable theft of taxpayer funds:

This is making me lose my mind. Are these people so divorced from their own imagination that they can’t even understand that artists are intentionally not depicting reality?

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Cult of personality watch

Motherfuckers!!!!

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This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

You don’t say

Gift article with a great explanation of how bad the already bad odds of winning an asylum claim have gotten. Immigration courts granted just 2 of 982 recent cases for asylum, closed courtrooms, and replaced experienced immigration judges with Trump supporters www.startribune.com/hope-fades-i...

Words NPR left out of its framing: cruel, inhumane, made to deter anyone from coming here, made to decimate work and family-sponsored paths to immigration as well as attempts to legalize status ever.

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

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We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Wearable faraday bags are the new fashion

india is currently 11 YEARS behind for eb-3 priority. this means that many “skilled workers” who were eligible to apply for green cards in 2015 are still waiting in the queue, mostly trapped in increasingly restrictive h-type visas. and they’re the lucky ones! this policy is such a disaster.

Covid radicalization hit a type of white collar lib whose work was irrelevant to the crisis. There was a moment where we thought we needed to cut all the chaff to survive and if they got cut AND that hurt them emotionally, then the radicalization set it. They needed a new politics to digest it.

SGA after brushing himself against an opponent

The 4 genders/why you should always let kids name their sports teams (this is an 8U league i clicked on by mistake but i'm glad i did lol)

Blood is on their fvcking hands

A bunch of stupid fucks approve of our stupid fuck in chief is pretty lame defense. Emmer is a tяvmp sucking cuck and an embarrassment to Minnesota!

For ::gestures broadly:: your consideration.

Great map of places to avoid spending any money in. Pathetic.

Probably shouldn’t give him any ideas

FUCK ICE

Seems bad

Giving insurrections who beat a cop a billion dollars is particularly infuriating if you live in Minnesota and the feds won’t even investigate the execution of two unarmed bystanders. We need vengeance for this shit

MN folks - could you please take a minute to write to the Gov and Lt Gov to ask them to revoke mining permits to Twin Metals? Please and thank you. act.sierraclub.org/actions/Minn...

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@postoctobrist.bsky.social look at my fire chief dawg I'm going to burn

Barney Frank did some great things in his career. He also spent his last days punching down on trans people and their allies. Condolences to his family and friends, but his advice for saving the Democratic party was to do the GOP’s work for them and should be ignored.

There's nothing requiring a cop castle. He keeps making this up.

So entire city of #Minneapolis?

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Nope Won’t readily stock indies who actually put in effort but you’d put AI books in? ghouls.

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