Here's a list of handy-dandy terms to stuff into every single email in white font. Every. Damn. Time.

Um, why is the Guardian promoting surveillance as a perfectly acceptable consumer good?

When the AI bubble pops, who’s going to be left holding the bag? When the housing bubble burst, approximately 10 million Americans lost their homes. What will we lose this time? www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-... via @saqibbhatti.bsky.social

Everyone should know that you can type “-ai” at the end of your Google search to leave off the AI crap…

OK now I'm *really* mad

A bipartisan group of 13 governors urges Congress to “reform” energy permitting. It’s a terrible idea.

Larry Summers moves from neoliberal asshat to full fledged sex pest. Fitting.

AI billionaires are enshittifying our lives, jacking up our electricity bills, destroying our jobs, and inflating a bubble that may crash our economy. For @newrepublic.com, I ask if Democrats will take, or waste, this obvious opportunity? newrepublic.com/article/2028...

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

Bill Gates's climate memo showed a stunning lack of political vision. The climate fight was always going to require technologies AND markets AND a social movement to make inconvenient demands upon the powerful. What did he think he was signing up for? open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

No, you can't run a planet like a buggy Windows system from the 90s. thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.

Our elites are omnicidal. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

I mean, it makes sense. AI's core skillset involves speaking in platitudes and tautologies. Tanking a once great company seems like more of a human, soft skill thing.

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

Yep—time to give Spotify the Disney+ treatment. Cancel your subscription:

Harbor Freight might make a good alternative, your local ACE Hardware if that owner is cool, tool lending libraries, what else? Local purveyors of supplies and lumber, seek em out. #BoycottHomeDepot

Wanna see what capitalist propaganda looks like? This is a doozy. My delusional anti-Semitic neighbor rants about this stuff, sprinkled in with other goodies about how 5g is mind control. Also, I don't get how an "ism" has a death toll, and not say, an actually existing murderous authoritarian.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

100% true. The amount of people who have come out of the "AI is no miracle" closet after they got laid off is remarkable. Folks I thought we're drinking the Kool Aid were on the right team all along, just couldn't say it.

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over? lol. lmao.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us -- *waits five years* The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Economists at Goldman Sachs have released an analysis estimating that US consumers are shouldering up to 55% of the costs stemming from Trump’s tariffs, even though the president has repeatedly made false claims that the tariffs on imports exclusively tax foreigners.

The most disturbing thing about this is not (just) that they are Nazis, it's that they are worried they'll lose elections if they don't dial up the Nazi talk even more.

Brilliant interactive flight path infoviz aerowhere.com/flight-track... You learn all sorts of things, like Oct 5 seems to be the date that aircraft started circling Macadam Avenue, where people in frog suits and chicken costumes occasionally show up to do the electric slide. Pretty odd, really.

At least 10 states already lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers, according to @goodjobsfirst.org. goodjobsfirst.org/cloudy-with-...

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

FYI, don't be this person. Really, the chance of it only backfiring is very high.

From the tech bro gospel: “someone was going to coarsen society and further immiserate people, it may as well be me.”

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback. After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

I love it. Non-violent creativity works every time. Effective resistance is often (not exclusively) psychological and based on optics.

Fucking vampires. Amazon got a 100 percent property tax abatement... and has fires on the regular. futurism.com/future-socie...

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Today on Volts: the folks at @rewiringamerica.bsky.social have an idea. Hyperscalers desperately need to free up grid capacity for data centers, right? Why not let them buy that capacity by paying for residential heat pumps & solar/storage systems? I discuss it w/ the head of RW & a rep from PG&E.

An ANU all-staff meeting erupted into cheers when it was announced that Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell was stepping down, writes Ben Eltham.

@wyden.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Let him shut it down. Have his tantrum. We don't throw people under the bus. Hold the line.

The Democrats already decided disabled ppl and Palestinians are worth sacrificing for everyone else’s comfort. Trans ppl are next if we don’t take a stand. It will be awful, but let him shut it down. At some point, you have to stop sacrificing ppl and stand for fucking something

The graphs in here are interesting. I wonder if the apparent 2025 drop in right-wing violence has to do with the fact that those folks feel appeased now that the fascists are in control, or if it has just morphed into state violence, and is now treated as out of scope.

No No No... Not another naked bike ride in Portland! 🫣

Here on the "war-ravaged" streets of Portland Oregon today, so far I have witnessed middle aged women discussing tree fruit, dude walking his dog with a latte, and brunch queues exceeding the 40 minute regulators requirement. Chaos!

I hope the difference between corporate media and civic-minded non-profit media is crystal clear. Even in these highly uncertain times, public media are still fighting for journalism and access to good information

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The Enshittifier becomes the Enshittified.