Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Critical Data Center Studies Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S...

This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back!

Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!)

CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"JPMorganChase applied to the IDA ... in January 2024, providing only vague justification of why the nation’s largest bank needed subsidies to expand on its existing site, 25 miles from its brand-new global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan ... it got the exact tax break it requested."

@purgepalantir.bsky.social

Forged Signatures Found on Petitions for Candidates Backed by Queens… New York Focus reached four voters listed as signatories who said they never signed. A review of other signatures suggests they might not be the only ones.

A pattern of behavior: nysfocus.com/2022/06/28/f...

Rajkumar challenger sues to kick her off ballot, alleging petition fraud DSA-backed David Orkin said he started digging after finding his own campaign volunteer’s signature on the Queens Democrat’s petitions.

Well, well, well...

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

NYU also has an absurd guest entry policy.

Remember when there was momentum around ending Columbia and NYU's massive tax breaks and using that money to fund CUNY? A bit late for this (overdue) New York State budget cycle, but worth taking up again next year.

www.repairny.org

"Like Taco Bell does with food, platforms like TikTok and Twitter are incentivized to strip context from language, because then it can be flattened into a saleable product that can be co-opted by corporations."

'SantaCon' organizer accused of pocketing more then $1 million earmarked to charities Stefan Pildes, a 50-year-old New Jersey man, facing one count of wire fraud, feds say.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Santa Con, indeed...

I am monitoring the situation. YouTube video by Kai Lentit

Sometimes my YouTube landing page actually recommends something amusing and worth sharing. This music video, "I am monitoring the situation," by Kai Lentit, is one of those things. Great satirical video about the dashboard data gaze, which is having an AI resurgence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsR...

Congratulations!

📢How do we eradicate poverty without relying on economic growth?
Join us online on 22 April for the launch of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights ‘Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth’: www.neep-poverty.org/
#BeyondGrowthRoadmap / @deschuttero.bsky.social

Meme lifted from x.com/TrungTPhan/s...

While the U.S. currently houses 54% of the world's hyperscale data centers, the infrastructure is expanding into countries like India, where the rush for land is sparking protests restofworld.org/2026/india-data-center-t...

Let's make a plan to leave Substack together! · Luma Let's make a plan to leave Substack together! Now is the time. This is the place. Here's how we're going to use our time: - Opening discussion about biggest…

Once again, I am holding a FREE event to help publishers leave Substack this Thursday.

luma.com/qho2psws

To Open the Strait of Hormuz, Trump Wants to Blockade Iran. Experts Are Skeptical.

FEMA official says he teleported to Waffle House. Experts are dubious

Well

"Developing power for data centers, using more traditional sources of fuel, with a pathway to lower carbon solutions over time, is something that fits us very well." Jeff Gustavson President, New Energies

If you are still skeptical that a massive, uncontrolled surge in electricity demand is a huge benefit for a fossil fuel industry desperate for a lifeline, you only really need to pay attention to what the industry itself is saying.

What is Bergamot? – Twinings, where is it used? Bergamot is a bitter, inedible citrus fruit – often called bergamot orange - and it's what gives Earl Grey tea it's distinctive, delicate flavour.

Twinings, I beg to differ from your description here. Bergamot is delicious AND edible, though definitely an acquired taste. Bought one at the Park Slope Food Coop and finally tried it raw today.

twinings.co.uk/blogs/news/w...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

"are we the baddies" sketch will only stop becoming a relevant meme on the day we don't even notice this anymore

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social

Every train, a note. A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

www.trainjazz.com

This train jazz website by Joshua Wolk, feeding off of live @mta.info data, is pretty neat.

#opendata #netart

Intelligence agencies of Orbán’s government have been secretly using Webloc, a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data, making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy in likely violation of GDPR
vsquare.org/orban-spying...

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.

Seeing a flood of Claude-generated urban dashboards popping up in #civictech #pitech spaces right now, & in my feeds on X & LinkedIn. I feel inclined to repost @shannonmattern.bsky.social's excellent 2015 essay, "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard."

placesjournal.org/article/miss...

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Soylent butt injection is made of people.

Fancy strings of words for #DigitalImperialism: "U.S. targets Canada’s cloud-computing move as trade irritant. The sovereign-computing initiative is meant to ensure that advanced computing power and sensitive data remain under Canadian legal control." financialpost.com/news/economy...

Excellent opportunities here.

Just another day in America re-litigating settled law from 1898 and ending this day watching humans slingshot the moon.