$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

We'll be speaking here...join us next week!

In the new TMK, we chat with folks from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice about their campaign to build solidarity among workers, confront the impacts of AI, apply pressure on corporate leadership, and agitate for socio-environmental justice at Amazon and beyond. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

If you're an Amazon Prime member and concerned about Amazon's climate impact, join Stand's webinar TOMORROW for how Prime customers can work together to put pressure on Amazon! Register now👇👇

Excellent pod with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow. TL;DR: Tech workers, organize! It's the only way to disenshittify the internet (and regain a sense of agency).

We'll be part of this!

We'll be part of this!

"Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." www.authoritarian-stack.info

@karenhao.bsky.social TYSM for posting about our open letter campaign! Many of us are reading your book and see a lot of parallels with OpenAI's empire-building and Amazon's empire-building. We're trying to reach as many of our coworkers as possible!

We've all heard the rumors that this was coming. Whether Amazon is truly replacing employees with AI, or just trying to show that that's what companies can do when they use AI...it's one of many reasons we're concerned about Amazon's use of AI, and why we're standing up. www.seattletimes.com

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

It’s always a good time to follow the folks at @amzn4climate.bsky.social “Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday… Amazon shares rose 1.2% to $226.97 on Monday. The company plans to report third-quarter earnings on Thursday.” www.reuters.com/business/wor...

We've all heard the rumors that this was coming. Whether Amazon is truly replacing employees with AI, or just trying to show that that's what companies can do when they use AI...it's one of many reasons we're concerned about Amazon's use of AI, and why we're standing up. www.seattletimes.com

Exactly this.

Tell all your friends in tech!

Our annual Circuit Breakers conference is live! 300 tech workers spanning the US, Mexico, Philippines, India and Kenya working in different layers of the global value chain gather across 40-different worker-led sessions exchanging strategies and tactics! Afterwards we will digitize sessions!

If you’ll be at Circuit Breakers this weekend, join our session on Sunday at 2:30pm with @amzn4climate.bsky.social: "Al & Tech Power: How Tech Workers Are Fighting for Our Jobs, Communities, and Climate." actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

On Monday, Trump sent the US back to the 1800's in search of AI dominance: he's gifting $625 million to decrepit coal plants, letting them delay adherence to water pollution rules by years, lowering the royalties from 12.5% to just 7%, & offering up 13 MILLION ACRES of federal land for coal mines.🧵

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

On Monday, Trump sent the US back to the 1800's in search of AI dominance: he's gifting $625 million to decrepit coal plants, letting them delay adherence to water pollution rules by years, lowering the royalties from 12.5% to just 7%, & offering up 13 MILLION ACRES of federal land for coal mines.🧵

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan. www.ft.com/content/52ae...

1/ Amazon is forcing us to use AI while investing in a future where it’s easier to discard us. Andy Jassy promised Amazon will be full of AI tools and “agents,” that he expects to employ fewer humans, that our (remaining) jobs will be “even more exciting and fun” www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...

1/ Amazon is casting aside its climate goals to build AI. We have just a few years to stop disastrous levels of warming. Yet despite committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, Amazon’s annual emissions have grown roughly 35% since 2019. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainabi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is so important. Seeing the vast red flags for genAI—and demanding that they be addressed in a precautionary way—doesn't equate to thinking all machine learning is useless. It is & will be very useful! But it won't save the world, and genAI's current trajectory is catastrophic.

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.

“residents asked for stricter controls on data centers: enforceable noise regulations, air pollution controls for hundreds of on-site power generators, protection of Muscogee Nation historical sites, and financial guarantees to cover costs of safely decommissioning” www.desmog.com/2025/08/20/g...

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

sayyy... what now

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer." This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

SFF friends: this is a good 75% of my energy/climate work right now. Dealing with the power demands of incipient data centers on the electric grid, and how those demands are resulting in more expensive and dirtier electricity for everyone.

ChatGPT is still a bullshit machine

This...seems a little troubling.

Trump's "AI Action Plan" calls for building data centers fast by weakening environmental safeguards and ramping up fossil fuels. 💻 @amandadsmith.bsky.social explains that if left unchecked, consumers could be left footing the bill and bearing the environmental consequences. @apnews.com #aienergy

“Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.”

Actual language from Trump's plan: "We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma." Translation: we know this will cause climate change. We don't care.

Actual language from Trump's plan: "We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma." Translation: we know this will cause climate change. We don't care.

Trump unveiled the AI Action Plan today, and it’s just as bad as we feared—maybe even worse. Remember the 10-year moratorium on regulation that got taken out of the budget bill? Some folks think this is even worse: 🧵

Trump unveiled the AI Action Plan today, and it’s just as bad as we feared—maybe even worse. Remember the 10-year moratorium on regulation that got taken out of the budget bill? Some folks think this is even worse: 🧵

There's a lot of commentary about the zombie moratorium that's come back in the AI action plan. I just want to point out that this is much worse than the provision in the bill, because it lets agencies make opaque decisions about what constitutes a limit on AI with no clear guidelines at all. 1/2

The White House released its AI Action plan this morning. We know where it came from: straight from Big Tech. But there’s another path available to us: we and over 100 other orgs called for a People’s AI Action Plan. Read it here: peoplesaiaction.com apnews.com/article/trum...

Just out yesterday: “Regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in artificial intelligence that has contributed to a growth in data centers and a surge in power usage” washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/21/r...

Tomorrow, Trump will sign several EO’s on AI, including the "AI Action Plan". They are....not good. While setting the stage for federal land giveaways and air & water pollution, they also penalize states that put safeguards in place. So we signed the PEOPLE'S AI Action Plan. 🧵

ICYMI...a little Saturday reading to get you really riled about what Amazon's doing to our world.