"Bildet Banden!" — @brodnig.bsky.social

I'm thinking about this a lot lately. AI's inaccuracies are a feature, not a bug, because one facet of totalitarianism is power over truth. The ability to punish with no recourse to justice, no way to complain "but you got it wrong!" is a flex. Orwell's 2+2=5.

she’s not wrong

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

Worth knowing. popular.info/p/the-corpor...

"The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into Grok [...] if X is found to have breached EU online platform rules under the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission could fine the company up to 6% of its global annual turnover."

Minneapolis resisted and here’s a compilation in case any of you missed these.

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

1/2 Greenpeace study shows link between the quality of public transport and trust in democracy. In communities with poor local transport services, the right-wing populist AfD party tends to perform better.

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to Mayor Katie Wilson.

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

For folks still struggling with the math: There are ~345 million US citizens. There are ~245 million white US citizens. This is what they mean by "Peaceful ethnic cleansing." Their plan ends with deporting all non-white people. Not "undocumented criminals." Not even "all undocumented people."

Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly. Critics say that's a dangerous fiction. Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one! www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Waymo privatized another public street: Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away. The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined. OP: .tiktok.renaspam18

Cooked. fortune.com/2025/05/19/m...

Time to call it a day.

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Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621

Across the top 592 podcasts, where 66.3% of hosts were men; 33.2% women. In top 100 podcasts, 72.8% of guests were men; 27.2% women. 62.6% of episodes did not feature a woman guest. Women most likely to appear as a guest when podcast had a woman host. annenberg.usc.edu/news/researc...

Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free? Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all. Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter: glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Not a good prompt: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.

“We all know what the lobbyists want,” he said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Google is turning on the gas for its data centers

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

"No AI" is the new "No Filter"

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...