WATCH: “BRUTALITY!”
Video of MEMPHIS PD violently escalating & pepper-spraying orange-vested #NoKings protest organizers downtown — with Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social and others right there to witness it.
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WATCH: “A CLEAR FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP.”
County Commission candidate @keshaunpearson.bsky.social rips Memphis Police for attacking #NoKings protest leaders, invoking a history of brutality that goes back beyond MLK’s days, and saying the pattern in MEMPHIS must end now.
OpenAI has plotted a turn towards defense contracting since at least early 2024, first erasing its prohibitions on military use of their models, and then turning towards the revolving door to buy influence with the Pentagon by hiring defense insiders, our @henryburke.bsky.social writes
THIS.
Insightful & timely evaluation of the current climate Black History & Black storytellers are in and what we stand to lose. Phenomenal, Rachael Payton.
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Obviously cannot talk about this without mentioning
- @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @txsharon.bsky.social
- @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @selc.bsky.social
Join me in just a few minutes at 1pm CST/ 2pm EST for a conversation with Dream.Org and other experts on grid transmission and equitable approaches that honor community engagement and transparency! do.dream.org/3MsSIGa
Gooooo #Southaven #Boxtown #Memphis!! #NoMusk #xAIPollutes
(Follow @keshaunpearson.bsky.social for updates)
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If in or around #Memphis or able to get there - this is crucially important.
Elon Musk’s #Colossus #xAI is dumping tons of pollution into TN’s air via unlicensed methane turbines. Your kids and grandkids will thank you for your assistance.
Artificial Intelligence Data centers and low social trust Why I was so compelled to post a lot about data centers Andy Masley Nov 07, 2025 There’s a cluster of beliefs common in very low-trust, populist voters and thinkers: There are no positive-sum trades. In every exchange, someone is winning and the other person is losing. Profit is usually a sign that someone’s been harmed. Every trade-off is a trick. Anything harmful cannot be made up for by other unrelated positive effects. If someone tells you we need to make a trade-off, they’re hiding a much better solution where everyone’s better off and nothing bad happens. Big, global institutions are always way less trustworthy than small, local institutions. The real political axis is the virtuous, authentic, everyday, rooted people vs. the unrooted powerful cabals who run society. It’s very important that all resources be spent on your specific value system and vision of the good life. Pluralism is a trick. Other people pursuing very different values are basically always a threat, because there are no positive-sum trades. Information is not valuable and not worth spending resources to acquire. What matters is physical goods. Thus, digital goods cannot make life better. It is at least somewhat sinful to spend physical resources to produce digital goods. The world is getting irrevocably worse. Technological progress is always just a march toward something worse. Individual humans are magic. Any implication that things humans do can be truly replicated by machines is an attack on human dignity. Some form of the labor theory of value is true. The value of a good is determined by how much thoughtful human labor has gone into making it. I think every one of these individually is a pretty bad way of thinking about the world. The data center debate has been a place where all of these show up, and where many people talk as if they’re each individually obvious, and only the bad evil people disagree. This was a big reas…
This is a remarkably condescending misdiagnosis: communities oppose data centres because the people opposing them are "low trust".
Not a chance that the projects are bad, poorly developed, unjustified and materially harmful?
archive.ph/wip/wyEcd
Data centers cost us…
Clean energy
Drinkable water
Tax revenue
Im not willing to sacrifice our future to manufactured urgency and hype.
I understand an will definitely post more here, I appreciate you being kind enough to share this!
We need your help with opposing #xAI and the pollution they are brining to Memphis!
If you are able to join us at the University of Memphis’ University Center at 9:30 AM Monday December 15th, 2025 please RSVP at www.memphiscap.org
Our Last Phone Bank is TOMORROW!
Memphis could use your help to alert folks about monumental decision about our air quality & one of our biggest polluters Elon Musk’s xAI.
It’s virtual and you can join from anywhere!
Sign up here: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT
“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
To the uninitiated: #xAI is Elon Musk's giant facility in Boxtown (#Memphis), which is spewing tons of pollution into Tennessee's air using unlicensed methane turbines.
More info next post. Follow also @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to stay on top of this. Thanks to MCAP and everyone working on it.
Thank you James!
xAI is running these methane-powered turbines to feed its power-hungry data center—illegally, without permits.
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social sat down with us during Climate Week NYC to discuss how data centers like xAI’s Colossus are choking Memphis’ air without regard for the law or its residents.
MEMPHIS VS. MUSK — @keshaunpearson.bsky.social : “xAI was able to pollute our community over 12 months illegally with up to 33 methane gas turbines. That’s unheard of, illegal, uncivilized, and truthfully it’s disgusting.” wreg.com/news/local/p...
Thank you James, please share our petition and stay with us in this fight for clean air! www.memphiscap.org/take-action
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution on the mythology of technology ‘saving’ society: “We are literally failing an open book test”
1 upside of AI’s power thirst: opposing voices like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. The way he critiques Musk’s xAI investment in Memphis - which already has 4x higher cancer rates than elsewhere - causing 79% upticks in nitrous oxide pollution is truly inspiring podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
Secrecy is a huge factor in the tactics of tech companies carpet-bombing communities with oversized and destructive data centres.
Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview -->
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"That pollution that is hurting our community… is to power a racist bot on behalf of the richest man in the world" - yes, that’s literally what’s happening. Again, #fullsupport to those rising up against xAI in Memphis, including @keshaunpearson.bsky.social
Follows: @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social @indivisibletn.bsky.social @indivisibletnbipoc.bsky.social @50501nashtn.bsky.social @indivisibletn7.bsky.social
See also: @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of MCAP for #Memphis activism vs #Musk #xAI.
Take a quick break from the loop of chaos and listen to a conversation that I know will leave you inspired about our future! ☀️
Thank you @themaybe.org & @alixdunn.com ✊🏾
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We’re speaking with KeShaun and other frontline organizers about their fight for their future on Wednesday, September 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Register now at - luma.com/l7m3nzzn
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Meet @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. He’s leading the Memphis Community Against Pollution to eliminate air pollution in South Memphis, and rallying residents to push back against another chapter of corporate extraction in their community.
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Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer is polluting the air of historically Black neighborhoods in Memphis. Environmental racism meets the AI craze in this new chapter of corporate extraction in Tennessee, and Memphis residents are fighting back.
Colossus 2: in Tennessee, Mississippi… or both? Things get more confusing once factoring-in a Greater Memphis Chamber statement in May that no turbines would be sited in Memphis. They’re not lying. Memphis and Tennessee have been getting a lot of pushback, so xAI’s genius move was to develop a Gigawatt-scale energy hub right across the border in Southaven, Mississippi. In mid-2025, the company acquired a former Duke Energy power plant in Southaven. Shortly after, Mississippi regulators granted xAI temporary approval to run gas turbines there for up to 12 months without a permit!
Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
