"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Federal legislation that would transfer land from a former boarding school to the state’s 19 pueblos unanimously cleared a congressional committee Tuesday, members of New Mexico’s delegation said.
National Library Workers Day sign
Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚
Excellent review by Pearson and team on how imagery is implemented through modulatory rather than excitatory top-down signals to visual cortex: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41973795/
Stanislas Wroza, an audio-naturalist at the French National Museum of Natural History, began identifying birdsong at age 10. Now 32, he can recognize about 1,000 different bird songs and calls.
Why it's important to teach children to recognize birdsong
@lemonde.fr
www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
The state of Utah has banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 32.
Of those, 24 are by women and the average publication date is 2009.
bookriot.com/utah-book-ba...
Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Congresswoman Summer Lee grills RFK, Jr. on black maternal health.
This health crisis in the U.S. is a persistent emergency where Black women are 2.5 to 3.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women, with rates up to 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.
Scientists capture how cells trigger inflammation
news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
“Our findings suggest the inflammasome may assemble in a very different way than scientists previously thought”
The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched.
This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?
This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is wren and pronounced tah-lee-tah-mah
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The little wren is the messenger of birds and pries into everything.
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
I have a gorgeous old copy from a local used book store ♥️
What if I were Romeo in black jeans?
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.
The Senate’s final vote on repealing the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters has been scheduled for Thursday morning. Sen. Tina Smith is expected to continue speaking then.
Fantastic read. Very immersive.
I don't understand...
Sometimes you just need to recombobulate. That word isn't in the dictionary, but it is on a beloved sign at Milwaukee's airport. n.pr/4cpKasB
I am begging, if you can, please cancel your Amazon Prime account. Please cancel your Washington Post account. Please don't shop at Whole Foods.
I mean, honestly, 4.
Because that's how we curious teacher-learners roll. ☺️
Hayam El Gamal and her five children have been locked away at the Dilley trailer prison for almost a year.
The mother has fluid near her heart and is in severe pain but won’t be given proper care. The 16-year-old son had delayed treatment for appendicitis.
