Dara Kerr
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Goodnight, TX, is the site of an upcoming Google data center. Cleanview got ahold of documents showing how the facility will be powered. Turns out a gas plant is in the works. This would be one of Google's first direct investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Google teams up with gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals
Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter
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Guardian US
10 days ago
With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s
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‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/us-court-social-media-meta-youtube?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1774610124-1
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Ton Aarts
14 days ago
h/t
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My spreadsheet documenting all 167 Tesla fire victims:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reminder: Nissan Leaf, since 2009: zero (!) burned alive Tesla now has nearly 2,5 times MORE fire victims per Tesla than even the infamous $1800 Ford Pinto from half a century ago ..
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People burned alive in a Tesla, by Ton Aarts
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS74d78LCEI6ayKggvlaLBgyBD_uzBuyY5OvlwquRY9aCw9g1oJWNagyizcFJbKG_NUwdBNEfrL7xzG/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
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Bobby Allyn
14 days ago
No verdict today. “There’s a good chance tomorrow we get a verdict,” said plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier.
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Ridgehead
19 days ago
$45M is 0.018% of $247bn. For someone with a net worth of $125K (the median in the US), that's the equivalent of spending $22.
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New filings in California show Google's Sergey Brin has now donated $45M to a super PAC dedicated to kneecapping the proposed billionaire tax in the state. Google's Eric Schmidt has also upped his donations with totals now at $4M to anti-wealth tax PACs
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Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax
Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to blocking state’s proposed 5% wealth tax
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-sergey-brin-california-billionaire-tax
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I did a deep dive into five Cybertruck fires. What I learned was the truck's design can hamper rescue efforts and lead to worst-case scenarios where fires rapidly ignite, the vehicle’s electric door handles won’t unlock and passengers are trapped inside
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Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck
Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. Victims’ families blame what they say is the faulty design of a truck Elon Musk calls ‘apocalypse-proo...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/tesla-cybertruck-crashes-battery-fires
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Guardian US
25 days ago
Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media
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‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/12/social-media-addiction-trial?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1773353837-1
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Lots of new campaign filings coming out in California with tech billionaires spending big. One new filing I hadn't seen reported on yet was Google's Eric Schmidt donating more than $1M to a committee combating the proposed billionaire tax
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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welp, it appears the public hearing supposedly held today didn't make a dent in any decisions
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash
Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in Mississippi
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/elon-musk-xai-data-centers
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Mississippi's environmental agency called a public hearing over xAI's proposed 41 gas turbines for tomorrow... on primary election day... in a county that's a 3-hour drive away. "This is not a public hearing, this is a deliberate attempt to silence frontline communities"
naacp.org/articles/naa...
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NAACP Demands Mississippi Regulators Reschedule Data Center Permit Hearing
The NAACP is calling on the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to immediately reschedule a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, 2026—Election Day—regarding an air permit...
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-demands-mississippi-regulators-reschedule-data-center-permit-hearing
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This suit reads like a dystopic spy novel. The chatbot sent the 36-year-old on stealth missions, instructing him not sleep and cut off contact with his dad. Then, it allegedly instructed him to kill himself. This is the first suit against Google over its AI.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself
Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/04/gemini-chatbot-google-jonathan-gavalas
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this is the tech we all need
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My colleague Nick tracked Musk's X posts, so the rest of us didn't have to. “If you stripped Elon Musk’s name off of these things and showed them to me, I would think that this was a white supremacist,” said Heidi Beirich of Global Project Against Extremism.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists
about 2 months ago
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Lauren Goode
about 2 months ago
NEW: Salesforce employees are circulating a letter urging CEO Marc Benioff to denounce ICE
www.wired.com/story/letter...
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE
The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash.
https://www.wired.com/story/letter-salesforce-employees-sent-after-marc-benioffs-ice-comments/
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Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show
Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/jeffrey-epstein-tesla-kimbal-musk
about 2 months ago
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Rodger Sherman
2 months ago
again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
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Ben Mullin
2 months ago
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Jose Pagliery
2 months ago
According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.
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the man keeps an uranium rod on his desk (along with a sword, an ax and a blade from a concorde jet engine)
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maddy varner
2 months ago
NEW: I reviewed nearly 1,400 screenings at over 300 movie theaters in the united states, and I am here to report that I successfully found two (2) sold out Melania screenings. Read on at
@wired.com
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www.wired.com/story/we-fou...
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We Found Two Theaters With Sold-Out ‘Melania’ Opening Day Screenings
A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.
https://www.wired.com/story/we-found-2-theaters-with-sold-out-melania-opening-day-screenings/
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dell cameron
2 months ago
I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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honestly can't decide if this auto-response for a reporter email to one of musk's companies is better or worse than the poop emoji
3 months ago
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Justin Hendrix
3 months ago
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." -
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Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
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Diedrich Bader
3 months ago
Gonna ask Meryl Streep to give me one of her Oscars
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"Welcome to gangster tech regulation!" I will read every
@lopatto.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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"Portland’s mayor, Keith Wilson, confirmed the shooting in a statement. 'Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,' he said."
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Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland, police say
Mayor calls shooting ‘deeply troubling’ as police say two people taken to hospital and conditions not known
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/portland-federal-agents-shooting
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The New Republic
3 months ago
The White House has unveiled a new website recounting a wildly inventive version of the insurrection. The site says the “massive crowd peacefully” approached the Capitol in an “orderly and spirited" fashion. And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant."
trib.al/VV6RuKa
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Despite all that's going in the world right now, I'm sure everyone is curious about what happened with Elon Musk's Tesla diner over the last six months. Turns out, it's not great.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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What happened after Tesla opened a diner in Los Angeles?
The novelty of eating at a diner owned by the richest person in the world seems to have worn off in just a few months
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/tesla-diner-elon-musk-los-angeles
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3 months ago
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It’s just the third day of 2026
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If you feel like rotting your brain today, you can read our recap on the chaotic year in Elon Musk. It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic
How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from his White House tenure to an apparent Nazi salute
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/31/elon-musk-doge-tesla-ai-trump
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I got internal emails between Ben Horowitz and the Las Vegas police for his donation of a Cybertruck fleet. Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
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How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks
Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jon Keegan
4 months ago
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
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An incredibly important story. "Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
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Lawrence Culver
4 months ago
Whatever part of the late American empire you want to see, it’s all here: water and power-guzzling AI, tech bros, security goons, brothel owners, wild horses, failed crypto utopias, and Indigenous people trying to preserve water rights and nature while the American West gets ravaged one more time.
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I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers
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Tim Dickinson
5 months ago
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Ryan Mac 🙃
5 months ago
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time." This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
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Amanda Katz
5 months ago
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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Phil Lewis
5 months ago
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun
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Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF. "It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said
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Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop ‘surge’ to San Francisco
President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him ‘the future of San Francisco is great’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-san-francisco-troops-silicon-valley
5 months ago
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glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑 list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir
Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors
6 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
6 months ago
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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Heather Knight
6 months ago
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"As unnerving and disheartening as SF’s overt misery and drug-use and mental instability can be, that’s not the same thing as crime. Reported SF crime, which was already low, is down nearly a third... Subjectively, you may not feel safe in San Francisco. Objectively, you’ve rarely been safer."
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Dhruv Mehrotra
6 months ago
Legendary work from
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. He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth. The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
https://motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/
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Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes. It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.
www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...
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We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts. But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With
@jmbooyah.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist
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