State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water

"Now take that fucking mask off your face" ***** "....For example, we’ve known for years that cleaning the indoor air by introducing higher ventilation standards and HEPA filtration standards would drastically reduce airborne illness. There’s a new technology called Far UVC that inactivates […]

Pluralistic: The mad king’s digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025) – Cory Doctorow "Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches? It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became […]

"A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but […]

"This guide helps you: Understand how power tests boundaries using figures like Vance to float ideas before formal enforcement begins. Spot the stages of soft repression—from suggestion, to normalization, to punishment—before they harden into law. Track the coordination between political […]

"Covid is airborne: it is in the exhaled breath of infected people. Vaccines and treatments are your last lines of defense. Post-infection immunity shortened to 28 days. 1 in 3 infected people are pre-symptomatic or show no symptoms. Long Covid usually comes from reinfections, most often “mild” […]

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Print this single page zine and hand it out or place it in public areas. "How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh and more […]

Monday Sept 1, SF Bay Area rally. Bring your friends, flags and lawn chairs. Stretches along El Camino Real from Redwood City to San Jose. Sign up here https://sccdp.org/index.php/2025/08/22/17x17k-rally-on-el-camino-real/

'...instead of wasting your time being angry at the other people trapped in unwinnable situations, spend your time finding new terms. Instead of being angry at yourself for not doing more, not doing it right, for failing, for getting sick, for not being ready enough, drop that emotion off that […]

"Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 20225 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2 […] [Original post on sfba.social]

COVID reinfection may raise risk of persistent symptoms by 35% | CIDRAP "85 hospitals, nearly half a million people observed: “Adults reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 may be at a 35% greater risk for long COVID than those with one-time infections… Those vaccinated […] [Original post on sfba.social]

"As we’d expect, there are massive problems with a facial recognition program a supermarket chain foisted on its customers without consent, including disturbing inaccuracies and biases – this post is a searing, precise breakdown of the failures and why it matters: Guest post: Serious accuracy […]

PIN 1 I love #fandomhistory (my corner of #fandom is the part that reads & writes #fanfiction & edits #fanvids). Think #archiveofourown #ao3 Anyhow here is a post of gratitude to all the #volunteers who showed up, stayed & did the work. #fanzine #Digitizing #archiving #fanvid archiving & […]