Oh, to have been a fly on the wall! Where was this?

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

What my students are currently reading in my Banned! Contested Protest Literature in Schools course…

My favorite scene from the Bible

Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses

I’m sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of user’s intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Foto von Hillary Clinton und Obama. Lachend

„Sie sagten, der Papst kenne die Bibel nicht, und dann zitierten sie Pulp Fiction.“🤣

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.

Liberal candidates sweep school board elections as Moms for Liberty loses ground By Carrie Sampson, Assistant Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University,The Conversation, Michigan AdvanceElection races for local school boards have ...

Liberal candidates sweep school board elections as Moms for Liberty loses ground

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

“The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear ‘cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards.’”

the Swalwell accusers are heroes and I'm so so glad they got to see such a swift and definitive outcome rather than months of this dragging out while their honesty was constantly relitigated by Twitter pundits

MAY IT EVER BE THUS

Trump picked a fight with the wrong guy. Pope Leo is not having it!

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Good, but just a head scratcher that Swalwell thought he was going to get away with his odious actions as long as he did.

lol even the dog is looking proud and smug, ‘yeah that’s MY FAMILY, oh yours takes you to the park, Roger? MY DAD WENT TO SPACE!!’

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Picture of the century. 😍

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Put the data centers in Bezos’ backyard(s).

Please!

AI is going to help,” said Khan of this reimagined Khan Academy. “But I think our biggest lever is really investing in the human systems.”

Translation: PAY HUMANS COMPETITIVE SALARIES SO THEY WOULD PURSUE TEACHING AS A CAREER!

Ask most instructors who have been grading student writing in online asynchronous courses for the past three years…

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Yep

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I have heard. I am so perturbed by this latest unnecessary threat that I can’t seem to text fast enough!

Anthropic’s ‘Claude Mythos’ model sparks fear of AI doomsday if released to public: ‘Weapons we can’t even envision’ Anthropic has triggered alarm bells by touting the terrifying capabilities of “Claude Mythos”– with executives warning the AI model is so dangerous that it would cause a wave of catastrophic hacks …

All these greedy techbros need to live with themselves. I have
from several SF therapists that tech workers are now their biggest clients, as they are having breakdowns over their guilt. The only nypost.com/2026/04/08/b...