Data centers in the mid Atlantic should voluntarily exceed any demand response calls and also buy out all the other demand response calls from utilities. If data centers are flexible demand, time to flex.

so basically: - psycho Louisiana AG threatens to use a failure-of-reconstruction era racist law to unseat the entire new orleans government - new orleans grand jury indicts her for this - governor promises pardon - special prosecutor replies roughly 'great well we'll need to convict her first'

Everything is classifiable as pornographic. Never doubt this. Bluesky, a website run by non-religious people, thinks that a post about AI that links to Wikipedia is porn. Your work documents, your TV shows, your political views--everything--is porn to someone out there.

I can't take this anymore! *raises hand to snap fingers that activates sKill 3 which drops a meteor on your dumb ass that lands one stun and two burn debuffs that does devastating damage on your next turn, killing you violently on your turn*

A maddeningly perfect summation of our age. You can be *concerned* about climate change, but you are forbidden from allowing that concern to be any constraint on capital.

New Jersey has become the latest state to ban surveillance pricing at grocery stores

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

The US Presbyterian Church has just voted to divest from Palantir & GE Aerospace; recognize the genocide in Gaza; and call for an arms embargo and boycott of genocide-complicit Israeli companies. Cites Palantir & GE's tech being used by human rights violators like ICE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Woodburn officials confirmed to me yesterday that it had terminated its contract with Flock Safety and removed the 23 Flock cameras that it installed last year. The City Council paused the use of Flock cameras in November. www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...

Every day a new (but long predicted) moral hazard manifests from this tech that is so obvious the words to describe it lose meaning by repetition

It's such a symptom of our economic decline that every cool tech guy back then was like this and now every tech guy is like "have fun staying in the permanent underclass"

Some people insist on saying things like ‘AI is just a tool’ in the context of software engineering. But if we are to treat it as ‘just a tool’, shouldn’t we consider its human and environmental impact, as well as the actual financial cost of these tools, before incorporating them into our workflow?

Capitalism is the economic system in which everything you enjoy is eventually owned by people who hate the thing you enjoy and hate you too

Citing Project Jupiter and Green Data proposals, Santa Fe commissioners seek to be "proactive."

Amazon's greenhouse gas emissions jumped 16% in one year. Google's jumped by 18%, and its energy used surged by 37%. I don't know what conclusion you can make other than that Generative AI is climate arson

Hyperscalers have a growing problem: reconciling climate goals with the energy required to power AI

Data centers spike the cost of power for everyone who lives nearby. Often, people building new projects promise they’ll build out power infrastructure to make up the cost and prevent normal people from footing the bill. That's not how it works. @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

They want the government entangled so you feel that your personal survival is tied up with AI the same way that they've convinced so many people that you can't boycott or divest because you'll be hurting some teacher's pension. Recognizing this scam is the only thing that will keep us all alive.

This is why everyone can shove it with the we have to teach everyone AI so they don’t get left behind argument. We actually DON’T have to accept the acceleration of environmental destruction for a shitty product that tells teens to kill themselves and teaches people not to think, and shouldn’t.

"If our studio shuts down, our assets, code, and everything required to extend the game... will become open source by default... Most importantly, we will be releasing all the legal paperwork and processes that make this possible publicly so the model can be replicated easily" 👀

Conservatives don’t think they have to give a damn about anyone, and they’re consistent about that, but I have a special disdain for people who say “but the lights in Times Square” as a way to justify their own irresponsibility. You don’t get a free pass because you can identify structural issues.

The real horseshoe theory is that both Bluesky posters and the New York Post are mad at Zohran for making the same recommendation that ConEd makes during every heat wave because everyone is allergic to personal responsibility now

it's so cool these guys bought the presidency to give themselves a few more years of runway so they could finally build a product that makes money then failed to build a product that makes money

“You must use AI if you want to be hired or promoted, and you will be fired if you don’t use it enough” “Wait, no, you’re using it too much” That is how the last two years have gone: utterly incoherent, disconnected, ignorant of money. It is not just a technology of coercion, but of irrationality.

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

What’s wild is all the companies in the story refusing to confirm this, or even lying and denying that they are blocking model access or capping AI use, despite internal screenshots proving it. The emperors will not admit they are out here buck naked, cheeks flapping in a very expensive breeze

"In total the 74 proposed gas power plants that would serve data centers could emit over 662 million tons of greenhouse gases per year...more climate-warming pollution than Australia or France released that year."

NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social

do these geniuses ever wonder why or have any way to rationalize the fact that no one in the republican party says "we need a strong democratic party, it's not healthy to have just a dominant republican party" or do they just blank out like a westworld robot

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to reign in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

Mamdani and Trump giving speeches on the same day where Zohran will be like “the philosopher George Santayana once said that To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career” and Trump will be like “Keebler Elves…they live in a tree and they make food, yes they do”

New from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely www.404media.co/companies-ar...

I know it's difficult to get out of the Google ecosystem, but the easiest one to skip now is their AI-forward "search" engine. DuckDuckGo, Kagi, and other alternatives are out there.

“AI doesn’t use any more energy than any other tech!” “Every time you posted on Facebook or sent an email, you were using a data center! It’s the SAME thing!” Really, assholes? Is it the same as it’s always been? Look at these graphs and tell me what changed.

again this is not being caused by "websites" or storing photos on icloud

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

In Japan the biggest chip company Calbi was going to make their bags two-toned instead of fully colored because of supply chain shortages & Takaichi’s government basically tried to sue them bc it would force people to acknowledge shortages & it’s their policy to pretend it’s not happening.

It’s trivial compared to all else but as computer components & entertainment systems become more prohibitively expensive it’s becoming increasingly clear that we can have AI & data centers & petroleum wars or we can have stuff we actually want like movies & video games & physical media but not both.

my radical gaming opinion is that id rather see 10-15 year old games getting their source code release rather than be republished by some bloodsucking ghoul publisher like a limited run games. i dont feel its preservation if you effectively just release a rom in a launcher for $25 on a new system

this is exactly why we need to start to make more clear boundaries between "preservation" and "availability". it's good that there are companies making (older) games playable on new systems. But that's not really fully preserving anything, is it?

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American companies are raving about "agentic shopping", meanwhile Korea is here with actual innovation: no-agent, no-shopping

someone convince him that this is where you filibuster to end wokeness

When climate scientists talk of the difficulty of visualizing complex data to simple audiences, they usually assume that the data will not speak for itself. In rare instances, however, pure quantitative metrics will transcend abstraction and just scream - quite qualitatively - at you in particular

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

The absolute state of gaming in the big 2026

”Some of our customers [OpenAI] may be highly leveraged and subject to their own operating and regulatory risks and even if our credit review and analysis mechanisms work properly we may experience risks of non-payment in our dealings with such parties.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...