Bill Callahan
@cycbill.bsky.social
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NE Ohio / Old grassroots digital equity hand / Data has its uses / Don't mourn, organize!
It's kind of niche-y, but if you're in this particular niche it's pretty hilarious. But -- Github takes stuff down? (Look at the comments on Sascha's post for an updated version.)
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"In April, the House in a rare bipartisan move passed a bill to extend TPS for Haiti for three years, but it’s unlikely to overcome the 60-vote threshold in the GOP-controlled Senate." Media needs to ask Gov DeWine what he's doing to push Husted and Moreno on this.
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US Supreme Court rules Trump administration can end legal protections for 350,000 Haitians • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its plans to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them up to de...
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/25/repub/us-supreme-court-rules-trump-administration-can-end-legal-protections-for-350000-haitians/
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"Cleveland needs an identity,” IBEW Local 38’s Mike Bremmer told council members... “We could be the tech capital of the Midwest." Funny, I thought you guys settled on Blockland. Or maybe it was Believeland (as in The City That Will Believe Anything).
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Cleveland 3-month data center pause heads to City Council vote
Cleveland is preparing to put a hold on new data centers as it writes zoning rules for the high-tech projects. Read more.
https://signalcleveland.org/cleveland-data-center-moratorium-city-council/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Cleveland%20data%20center%20vote%20looms&utm_campaign=Signals%20216%2020260626
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That includes about 40,000 rural Ohio households. /.1
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How Trump Screwed Rural Americans to Help Musk Become a Trillionaire
Trump’s rewrite of rural broadband rules helped Musk steer public money toward Starlink to strengthen SpaceX and screw rural Americans.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/22/trump-rural-broadband-musk-starlink-spacex/
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Thank you
@theverge.com
for a great piece by
@karlbode.com
and
@seangon.bsky.social
. This is a big untold story in rural Ohio, especially some Appalachian counties. Maybe some reporter could do a little digging at BroadbandOhio instead of writing that umpteenth datacenter backgrounder.
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6 days ago
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Bill Callahan
The Rooster
10 days ago
Since March, Vivek Ramaswamy has traveled to Portugal, Greece, the Bahamas, Port Clinton and Akron aboard the new private jet that he worked hard to hide ownership of. Full logs, here:
www.rooster.info/p/vivek-rama...
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Every flight Vivek Ramaswamy took on his secret private jet in 2026
Ramaswamy has a new private jet, accruing an estimated $243,219 in fuel costs over 54 flights from Columbus to places like Akron, Port Clinton, Portugal and Greece in 2026.
https://www.rooster.info/p/vivek-ramaswamy-private-jet-2026-portugal-greece-bahamas
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Amazon LEO pulls out of BEAD commitment in Nebraska "due to changes in their business plans”. Hmmmm. Amazon LEO (fm Kuiper) was picked for more than 280K BEAD locations in 25 states, despite big questions about their satellite readiness. How many more are subject to those "business plan changes"?
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Some BEAD Winners Are Walking Away. What Happens Next? | The Broadband Community
With BEAD awards moving into the contract execution phase, a small but growing number of proposed subgrantees are deciding not to proceed. In some cases, companies are walking away voluntarily. In ano...
https://www.broadband.io/c/get-broadband-grant-alerts-news/some-bead-winners-are-walking-away-what-happens-next
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Bill Callahan
Sascha Meinrath
12 days ago
Let the [BEAD] defaults... BEGIN!!!
www.broadband.io/c/get-broadb...
Did we not learn from the RDOF default fiasco: lowest-bid contracts yield extremely high default rates unless you have *meaningful* repercussions for defaulters. Mark my words, this will get much worse over the next 18-24 months.
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Some BEAD Winners Are Walking Away. What Happens Next? | The Broadband Community
With BEAD awards moving into the contract execution phase, a small but growing number of proposed subgrantees are deciding not to proceed. In some cases, companies are walking away voluntarily. In ano...
https://www.broadband.io/c/get-broadband-grant-alerts-news/some-bead-winners-are-walking-away-what-happens-next
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Agree with
@rooster.info
but it's not just rural Ohio. New Albany isn't rural. Hilliard and Dublin aren't rural. Hamilton isn't rural. Lordstown, Niles, Massillon aren't rural. The AWS hypersite in Stark Co is a mile from the Canton city limit. All places Dems need some clear "animating issues".
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Data centers are a generational Democratic opportunity in rural Ohio
It will be nothing short of political malpractice without a clear moral stance on a chief animating issue of our times.
https://www.rooster.info/p/data-centers-ohio-democrats
17 days ago
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You'll want to share this.
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21 days ago
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That's me at bottom left.
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about 1 month ago
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Cleveland.com's
Rich Exner reports on the GCP's predictable opposition to a city data center moratorium to review zoning rules, without once mentioning the developer who just quietly applied for a rubber-stamp permit to build a 300,000 SF, 150 MW hyperscale in Slavic Village, and almost got it.
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Business group says data center moratoriums send wrong signal
Business group says a data center moratorium is like putting up a
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05/greater-cleveland-partnership-to-cities-dont-ban-data-centers.html
about 1 month ago
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Genuinely puzzled. Two weeks ago tomorrow, neo-trans.blog revealed that an investment group plans to put a 150 MW hyperscale data center on a vacant lot in a Cleveland neighborhood. Big controversy. But
Cleveland.com
has still not mentioned it. Are they just sulking about Prendergast scooping them?
about 1 month ago
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And the Trump Administration replied: "They get me!"
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about 1 month ago
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Ken Prendergast at NEOtrans, still the only source of actual reporting on this story, says the Lakeland Equity permit application for a hyperscale data center in Slavic Village was nixed because no drawings were included. They can resubmit, but maybe not in time to evade proposed City moratorium.
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Data center rejection prompts reaction – NEOtrans
https://neo-trans.blog/2026/05/14/data-center-rejection-prompts-reaction/
about 2 months ago
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Duh. But I'm glad somebody is checking.
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Some of Ohio’s Satellite BEAD Locations Face Tree Canopy Cover, Analyst Says
NTIA said money could be clawed back if service doesn’t meet standards.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/some-of-ohios-satellite-bead-locations-face-tree-canopy-cover-analyst-says/
about 2 months ago
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On X and IG. Don't see a release on the City website yet.
about 2 months ago
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It's been a full week since
@neotrans.bsky.social
broke the story of a permit application being filed for a 150 MW hyperscale data center in the middle of Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood. As of today,
cleveland.com
still hasn't published a word about it. Very weird.
about 2 months ago
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I don't think anyone thought in 2023 that this was likely to work out, but the City Hall consensus was "What the hell, nothing to lose, give it a shot." Three years later, SiFi is officially a dud, 40%+ of Cleveland homes still don't have fiber access, and there's no plan to change the situation.
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Cleveland moves to kill citywide ultra-fast fiber network deal - Signal Cleveland
Cleveland cut a deal in 2023 with SiFi Networks, which promised to lay fiber-optic cable in the city at no cost. The company never started.
https://signalcleveland.org/cleveland-kills-ultra-fast-fiber-network-deal-with-sifi-networks/
about 2 months ago
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Just leaving this here icymi. :)
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Watch This NYT "Music Critic" Embarrass Himself...AGAIN
YouTube video by Rick Beato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQTMkjQvHoc
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Bill Callahan
Public Knowledge
about 2 months ago
The Trump administration's anti-civil rights agenda has landed the Digital Equity Act in its crosshairs — but the fight isn't over yet. Read the latest from Broadband Policy Director
@alisavalentin.bsky.social
:
publicknowledge.org/inequity-is-...
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Inequity is Not Inevitable: Save the Digital Equity Act
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
https://publicknowledge.org/inequity-is-not-inevitable-save-the-digital-equity-act/
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One year ago today. /1
about 2 months ago
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"Staff members at Slavic Village Development, the local community development corporation, did not respond to phone messages or emails. Councilwoman Deborah Gray, who represents the neighborhood, did not respond to an interview request." Huh. Very careful. Meanwhile, still no story at
cleveland.com
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Cleveland's mayor has 'real concerns' as data center proposal surfaces in Slavic Village
A Westlake-based group filed a permit application with the city this week for a $1.6 billion data center campus in Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/clevelands-mayor-has-real-concerns-as-data-center-proposal-surfaces-in-slavic-village
about 2 months ago
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I'm quoted at length here, thanks
@seangon.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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"A 150-megawatt, $1.6 billion data center planned for Cleveland’s Slavic Village is in a race to get its plans approved before City Council can pass a moratorium on building more data centers... Those plans were submitted to the city’s Building Department on May 5." Good reporting by NEOtrans.
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More details emerge on Cleveland data center – NEOtrans
https://neo-trans.blog/2026/05/07/more-details-emerge-on-cleveland-data-center/
about 2 months ago
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Translating for Affordability Democrats: Court gives wealthy AT&T/Verizon CEOs permission to go right on raising Internet costs for millions of working families by withholding fiber competition from their neighborhoods, leaving them at the mercy of overpriced cable monopolies. Brendan Carr loves it.
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Eighth Circuit Vacates FCC’s Digital Discrimination Rules
The decision strikes the order in full, sending the FCC to restart.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/eighth-circuit-vacates-fccs-digital-discrimination-rules/
about 2 months ago
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Um, right. Three massive new buildings filled with servers and HVAC along with with backup generators, all loudly humming away on 35 acres in the middle of Slavic Village, literally next door to a bunch of houses. That's gonna fly.
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$1.6B data center planned in Cleveland – NEOtrans
https://neo-trans.blog/2026/05/06/1-6b-data-center-planned-in-cleveland/
about 2 months ago
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Oh good. I feel better now.
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Google, Microsoft, and xAI agree to let US government test AI models before public release — OpenAI and Anthropic also on board after renegotiating deals with Washington
All five major frontier labs now give the Commerce Department early access to unreleased AI systems.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-microsoft-and-xai-agree-to-let-us-govenment-test-ai-models-before-public-release
about 2 months ago
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Reminder to
@amyactonoh.bsky.social
and other
@ohdems.bsky.social
seeking "affordability" proposals: Most of Cleveland's 170K households can now get <$20 per month broadband thanks to a $20 mil City investment, matched by $10 mil from the state, in DigitalC's nonprofit 5G fixed wireless network.
about 2 months ago
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It's the Sunday before primary Tuesday. Early voting started April 7. Three Dems want the chance to run for OH Cong Dist 14 vs. GOP incumbent Dave Joyce. As hardcore frequent Dem voters, we've received exactly one (1) communication about this race (a postcard mailer) from any of the three. WTAF?
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The Ohio GOP historically hates local home rule (they make an exception for wind and solar opponents), while Dems have favored it unless it inconvenienced a favored lobby (police unions, AT&T). In this environment Dems would benefit from strong clear principled support. Not holding my breath.
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Who decides? Ohio lawmakers eye limits on local say over nuclear plants
The idea of limiting local ability to have a say over smaller modular nuclear power plants comes as tech companies turn to nuclear energy to power AI systems and data centers across the state.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/04/who-decides-ohio-lawmakers-eye-limits-on-local-say-over-nuclear-plants.html
2 months ago
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"Led by Chairman Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, the subcommittee’s legislation would prevent any FCC funds from going toward the enforcement of digital discrimination rules enacted during the Biden administration." But Chairman Carr can use those funds to attacked politically noncompliant broadcasters. /1
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House Subcommittee Would Provide FCC Less Money Than Requested for 2027
The full House Appropriations Committee is set to consider the bill this week.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/house-subcommittee-would-provide-fcc-less-money-than-requested-for-2027/
2 months ago
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Per Ookla's speed test data, in the 2nd half of 2025 only 31.5 % of Starlink users in Ohio had 100/20 Mbps service, which is the Federal standard for being "served" by broadband. Yet BroadbandOhio and the Feds are about to award Starlink almost half of the state's BEAD rural broadband slots.
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50 U.S. States Broadband Speed Performance | H2 2025 Report
Learn which U.S. states are meeting or exceeding the FCC’s 100/20 Mbps broadband standard, how the digital divide is shifting, and where Starlink fits in.
https://www.ookla.com/research/reports/us-broadband-performance-report-h2-2025?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com
3 months ago
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I hope Pope Leo and Cardinal Parolin are talking directly with the American bishops. US Reps Joyce (R-OH14) and Rullii (R-OH6) definitely need to hear the Pope's message from Bishop Bonnar of the Youngstown Diocese and his flock.
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3 months ago
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I estimate the top 5 providers have increased their share of the US home Internet market from 68% to 75% via FCC-blessed buyouts of Cox by Charter, Frontier by Verizon, and Lumen's home fiber operations by AT&T. T Mobile (#5) reportedly may soon add another 1% by buying out Uniti/Windstream (#10).
3 months ago
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An excerpt from Trump's 2027 budget document released Friday. The Digital Equity Act also prioritizes rural residents and veterans but... well, you know.
3 months ago
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Yesterday was 4 months since the Commerce Dept "approved" its own version of Ohio's plan to spend Federal BEAD dollars to subsidize broadband deployment to unserved rural locations. But the plan's still secret! No details to be found on the NTIA or BroadbandOhio websites except this infographic. /1
3 months ago
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reposted by
Bill Callahan
Jimmy Malone
3 months ago
Get ready Clevelanders
www.miaminewtimes.com/news/maybe-m...
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Maybe Miami Shouldn't Have Built a Stadium By the Airport
Oh, you wanted to get to your flight on time?
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/maybe-miami-shouldnt-have-built-a-stadium-by-the-airport-40536507/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/miami
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There are many reasons to question why you'd want Cleveland to spend $600+ million on this forgettable "concept". But a prior question is why Mayor Bibb is willing to let the Trump FAA and two MAGA Senators take the City hostage right now over an airport closure that can easily wait a few years.
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Cleveland.com
today: AI Guy Chris Quinn and "the readers" scoff at Mayor Bibb's ideas for replacing Burke (a golf course! LOL!) then demonstrate they have none of their own. But don't worry, by the time any of this happens Bibb will be gone and Quinn will have replaced Atassi with an Editor Bot.
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03/cleveland-finally-gets-its-lakefront-chance-and-its-thinking-too-small-leila-atassi.html
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Voters in southern Ashtabula and Trumbull Counties, remember this from State Rep Davis Thomas: “Data centers are an important part of Ohio’s future, and we want to continue attracting them." Not sure what "progressive" Tristan Rader thinks he's doing here, but it's dumb.
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Reps. Thomas, Rader Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Shield Ohio Ratepayers from Data Center-Driven Grid Costs
State Reps. David Thomas (R-Jefferson) and Tristan Rader (D-Lakewood) today announced bipartisan legislation to establish minimum statewide standards for electric service agreements with data center c...
https://www.ohiohouse.gov/members/david-thomas/news/reps-thomas-rader-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-shield-ohio-ratepayers-from-data-center-driven-grid-costs-142158
3 months ago
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Lining the street after the
#NoKings
rally in Ashtabula OH
3 months ago
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Just unsubscribed from the
@broadbandbreakfast.bsky.social
email newsletter. I do not need Ted Hearn in the morning.
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FCC Defends Nexstar-TEGNA Merger Approval in D.C. Circuit, Says Stay Would 'Needlessly Delay' Deal Benefits
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells reporters in Washington, D.C., Thursday that he and his two colleagues still might vote on the Media Bureau's March 19 decision approving the $6.2 billion transaction
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/fcc-defends-nexstar-tegna-merger-approval-in-d-c-circuit-says-stay-would-needlessly-delay-deal-benefits/
3 months ago
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Ohio's own Mister Misdirection. Photo ID to vote isn't the issue. Requiring a $65 passport or a $25 birth certificate to *register* to vote is the issue. Ohio's former SOS certainly knows the difference. Husted isn't this stupid. But apparently he is this shameless.
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03/husted-leads-senate-gop-push-on-controversial-save-america-act-billing-it-as-a-voter-id-measure.html
3 months ago
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I'm going to listen but I think I already know the answer.
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Is the Internet Still a Public Good? - Episode 1 of Unbuffered | Community Broadband Networks
Unbuffered launches with a powerhouse roundtable on broadband policy, the FCC, and media consolidation. Karl Bode, Gigi Sohn, Doug Dawson, and Sean Gonsalves dig into whether today’s technology ecosys...
https://ilsr.org/article/community-broadband-networks/is-the-internet-still-a-public-good/
3 months ago
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Cool to see the Onion sending a reporter to Cleveland Hopkins.
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ICE Agents Swab Passengers’ Hands To Test For Immigrant Residue
https://theonion.com/ice-agents-swab-passengers-hands-to-test-for-immigrant-residue/
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FracTracker map shows four Class II injection wells within five miles of our house in Ashtabula County near the PA state line.
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11/how-did-ohio-become-the-primary-dumping-ground-for-fracking-waste.html
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This is exactly on the money. 👉 "[A] huge swath of the animosity [to AI] is being driven by historic and justified anger at the extraction class. That anger and energy is good, and just, and... deserves a wide berth." (Karl has a longer version of this at
karlbode.com/the-problem-...
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If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms
I think this recent post by AI industry CEO Matt Shumer is worth a read. In it, he basically explains how quickly LLMs (large language models) are evolving to supplant many developers and prog…
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/if-youre-going-to-defend-ai-and-whine-about-its-critics-you-should-probably-be-honest-about-its-actual-harms/
4 months ago
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Bill Callahan
David DeWitt
4 months ago
Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted can't leave Washington, D.C., to testify in the largest public corruption trial in Ohio history due to the "Iran war," the defense attorneys said, but did find time to return to the state to attend a fundraiser.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/h...
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Husted can’t testify in person in corruption trial due to Iran war, but came to Ohio for fundraiser • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted can't leave Washington, D.C., to testify in the largest public corruption trial in Ohio history due to the "Iran war," the defense attorneys said, but did find time to return to…
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/husted-cant-testify-in-person-in-corruption-trial-due-to-iran-war-but-did-come-to-ohio-for-fundraiser/
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