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How the AI oligarchy devoured America

This story is a part of "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country.

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"During the five day trial, the judge denied the defendants all legal defences including reasonable excuse and necessity and ruled that agreed facts on climate were 'irrelevant'."

The jury delivered their not-guilty verdict today after approximately six hours juststopoil.org/2026/04/17/s...

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...

“The rise of online advertising has made it easier to profit from hate and misinformation than at any time in history.

It’s striking how often the same networks that monetise racist clickbait are also pushing dangerous lies about climate change"
www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

Nigel Farage has said that he wants to move towards an insurance based healthcare system.

The NHS wasn’t built in Wales just to be a destroyed by Reform UK.

A vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote to protect and strengthen our NHS.

Inside the surreal anti-science conference where Trump’s EPA chief gave the keynote address "Essentially, the climate deniers are in charge now."

Inside the surreal anti-science conference where Trump’s EPA chief gave the keynote address [via @theguardian.com]

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

The Guardian: Oceans Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas Damian Carrington Environment editor

Has any media besides @theguardian.com even covered this horrifying news?

450 redundancies at Ulster University announced by Vice Chancellor on webinar 'Most recent accounts published on the UU website do not indicate the kind of deficit that might lead to such large-scale redundancies' - Cllr Shaun Harkin

Devastation of universities in N. Ireland, Wales, Scotland & North of England is a huge mistake

Especially when Govt is doubling funding for Oxford–Cambridge corridor, this looks so bad 😲

Even in narrow political terms, this is a massive error

www.derrynow.com/news/local-n...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

- Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

#AMOC #climatecrisis
Story by me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have written a little retrospective for QueerAF on our award-winning coverage of the Supreme Court judgment last year. It's a short piece on how we wrote the coverage, and what I think we got right, which you might find interesting! Subscribe to QueerAF's newsletter if you want to read it.

The pivotal riot that shaped modern LGBTQIA+ rights, you don't hear about enough Before Stonewall, Pride, or the rainbow became a symbol for the queer community, a group of trans women started a revolution that history almost forgot

Before Stonewall, Pride, or the rainbow became a symbol for the queer community, a group of trans women started a revolution that history almost forgot

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Man made the first extant sundial 3,500 years ago. Then came water clocks and calibrated incense and hourglasses. Then the mechanical clock. Then quartz crystals (which I still don’t get) and the atomic clock, perfectly accurate for 300 billion years.
But ChatGPT can’t match my old kitchen timer.

The research combined real-world ocean observations with the models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty. They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse. The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun- warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic. Dr Valentin Portmann, at the Inria Centre de recherche Bordeaux Sud-Ouest in France and who led the new research, said: "We found that the Amoc is going to decline more than expected compared to the average of all climate models. This means we have an Amoc that is closer to a tipping point." Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said: "This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the 'pessimistic' models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data." He added: "I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close."

How can anyone claim that halting global heating is not a critically urgent priority or that we need more fossil-fuel development?

Coal, oil, and gas have already heated the world so much that this👇now seems likely to happen in our grandchildren's lifetimes.

Last month in The Onion:

How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium An investigation has been launched after we discovered a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel.

We're supplying military equipment to Israel. And Labour cares so little about it that Belgium has to step in and stop the shipments. I guess Labour's too busy arresting protestors against the genocide?

An action figure of Jessica Fletcher from the tv show Murder She Wrote.

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

Guess how many times this Spiked piece - which blames Orban’s loss on ‘identity politics’ and ‘therapy culture’ - mentions that Furedi is literally working for Orban?

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

In Parliament today MPs will be voting on a Bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests - this is something I absolutely oppose.

The right to protest is not a privilege, it is a fundamental freedom of democracy -

How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

Last week the @npr.org team interviewed our researcher @godin.bsky.social about the obstacles faced by those looking for open source information on the Iran-Israel-US conflict and why the development of new tools is important within this space: www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Birkbeck offers business degrees at first campus in India University of London institution sets up in Bengaluru tech park

Birkbeck opens Indian branch campus, offering three-year full-time degrees www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birkbec... via @seher-education.bsky.social

Anglican priest, 84, among more than 500 arrested at Palestine Action protest - The Tablet An 84-year-old retired Anglican woman priest and former nun, Revd Sue Parfitt, was among more than 500 people to be arrested in London on 11 April during a

Anglican priest, 84, among more than 500 arrested at Palestine Action protest

‘I can’t imagine why a Christian wouldn’t support Palestine Action… at 84 I can still do my small bit by being arrested, going to court and potentially going to prison.’

www.thetablet.co.uk/news/anglica...

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money.
Their "patriotism" is always a con.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

“Oh... did you feel that?” 😬😂

Not your typical narration from Serra Naiman in 'YOU NEED THIS' the new documentary from @ghostpanther.bsky.social

Management: design a course that contains 40% of what you teach now.
Also management: report to us on Wednesday to find out how many of you we can now sack.

(50% is my guess, and there’s no way they’ll pass up the opportunity to fire a union caseworker).

Poor #Robocop 🤣😂🔄