“Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024.”
A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.
One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.
Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
Total workplace surveillance. Coming now to a tech worker near you, and soon to workers everywhere
AI is the industrialization of the production of management and oversight itself
The Gilroy community is fighting this data center. Gilroy is the garlic capital of California. You can smell the garlic as soon as you approach the town. Pre-Covid, they had an annual Garlic Festival, featuring all things garlic, including garlic ice cream.
www.cityofgilroy.org/1019/Gilroy-...
how many companies have now bet on smart glasses? stop trying to make smart glasses happen!
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.
Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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I’ve known Palantir was evil for a long time, but reading their technological republic statement, when combined with the fact that Thiel is going around giving speeches on the Antichrist and allying himself with rapture theologians… Palantir is an apocalyptic death cult with god-like technology.
It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
Every college and university is trending in the same direction in ways students largely hate and pretending it is necessary to be ‘competitive.’
"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:
Yale has decided to one-up Harvard in its "solution" to "grade inflation." Rather than cap A's, as Harvard is likely to do, Yale is going to force a 3.0 mean average in courses. Grades can't bear the weight people try to put on them. They're not scientific measures. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
Being “bad” at art is good, actually! My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender.bsky.social on the @404media.co podcast with @samleecole.bsky.social in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.
The patriarchy really has out done itself this week
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The CLC is proud to spotlight "Finding Sarah and Mary" by Jacqueline Jones Royster, out May 1 from University of Georgia Press.
Blending memoir, family history, and research, Royster traces her ancestry and shows how everyday lives shape American history.
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10 ways to control high blood pressure without medication By making these 10 lifestyle changes, you can lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart disease. By Mayo Clinic Staff April 01, 2026 If you have high blood pressure, you may wonder if you need to take medicine to treat it. But lifestyle changes also play an important role in treating high blood pressure. Controlling blood pressure with a healthy lifestyle might prevent, delay or lessen the need for medicine. Here are 10 lifestyle changes that can lower blood pressure and keep it down. 1. Lose extra weight and watch your waistline Blood pressure often goes up as weight increases. Being overweight also can cause pauses in breathing while you sleep, a condition called sleep apnea. Sleep apnea also raises blood pressure. Weight loss is one of the best ways to control blood pressure. If you're overweight or have obesity, losing even a small amount of weight can help lower blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). In general, blood pressure might go down by about 1 mm Hg with each kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) of weight lost. Also, the size of the waistline is important. Having too much weight around the waist can raise the risk of high blood pressure. In general: Men are at risk if their waist measurement is greater than 40 inches (102 centimeters). Women are at risk if their waist measurement is greater than 35 inches (89 centimeters). These numbers vary among ethnic groups. Ask your healthcare professional about a healthy waist size for you. 2. Exercise regularly Regular aerobic exercise can lower high blood pressure by about 5 to 8 mm Hg. It's important to keep exercising to keep blood pressure from rising again. As a general goal, try to get at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity every day. Exercise also can help keep blood pressure that's slightly higher than ideal, called elevated blood pressure, from turning into high blood pressure. High bl…
I don't know about anyone else but when physicians tell you to "reduce stress" in your life (literally every health condition I have is impacted by stress) I want them to tell me how, because taking public transit isn't reducing my stress.
Source: Mayo Clinic
We need to keep lists of places that are ChatGPTing all help agents because I never want to buy anything from them again
Today @motherjones.com is rolling out “Power Hungry,” our package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities and destabilizing democracy in their quest for a new level of intelligence—and riches.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
At least when they admitted Elle Woods to Harvard for diversity reasons she brought something new to the table.
This is like if I pivoted from scriptwriting to being a horse
Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Do you even teach in the mid-South or plains if you aren't awoken by a tornado siren in the final month of the spring semester?
AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)
NAACP announced it is suing xAI over its second data center in Memphis, claiming the company is illegally operating 27 gas turbines without a permit
“‘I think the vast majority of people who are angry at AI are regular consumers,’ Hanna said. ‘People who were promised one thing, especially online, and they’re just getting a completely different experience.’”
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
Altman and the AI industry are trying to blame AI doomers, bad "messaging" and "incendiary" rhetoric for the wave of violence—all of which papers over the root of rage against AI. People are angry at what *the industry itself* has promised to do; at the broader AI project as currently constituted.
A classroom of elementary school students sits on a colorful carpet holding fake mustaches and magnifying glasses during a detective-themed literacy activity. Their teacher, Bieunkah Anwojue, smiles and leads the lesson from the front of the room at Bernice Young Elementary. Desks, classroom supplies, and learning posters are visible in the background.
The CLC is proud to support 2025 grantee Bieunkah Anwojue, an award-winning children’s author & illustrator.✨️
Anwojue led a detective-themed literacy workshop where students used C.L.U.E.S to strengthen their writing, explore visual storytelling, and build confidence through creativity and play.
“Memphis is now being asked to believe that becoming a hub for artificial intelligence will secure its economic future. But economic development that does not center environmental protection, public health, and equitable access to opportunity is not development. It is extraction.”
