Carpe Derpum

@carpederpum.bsky.social

1967 - current Translator, traveller, eater of good food and drinker of wine, ruiner of otherwise perfectly good parties with acoustic guitar version of Wonderwall. Responsibilities include: opening the door for the cat, forgetting why I came into rooms

A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.

. These data centers are bad news and we don't need them. I have written 3 major articles on these. The whole thing is shady as sh#t and has been rolling out in the most corrupt, oppressive and tyrannical fashion possible. And God only knows what we've got coming when all these are up online. .

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NYC police should have REFUSED to arrest anti-Netanyahu protesters at the UN. If they arrested anyone, it should have been Netanyahu. C’mon, police! WE PAY YOU. Your job is to protect us.

Not all the work makes the big headlines, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. Last week, I secured a win against a debt collection company that was taking people's cars to coerce them into paying. Now, that company can't work in Massachusetts, and consumers are getting $52 million in relief.

How are you feeling these days? God’s just watching in Heaven and wondering why you don’t rise up and put them all in prison and stuff? Think about how good that would feel.

If today’s BBC board and heads of news and current affairs had been at the helm in the 1940s they’d have said Hitler opened holiday camps for Jewish families.

What could possibly go wrong? The SEC quietly proposed to rescind a long-standing anti-corruption measure that prevents private equity firms and other investment advisers from buying billions of dollars in pension funds that belong to public employees like teachers, police, firefighters . . .

The SEC wants to scrap a key anti-corruption rule targeting private equity

Pay-to-play schemes were a way for firms to tap into public pension funds. They may soon be back.

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Deberíamos impedir que cada vivienda desahuciada por fondos buitres pueda ser explotada... que nadie quiere comprar o alquilar un inmueble en el punto de mira. Decenas de miles de personas se manifiestan en España para mostrar su apoyo a Maricarmen www.publico.es/sociedad/dec...

Decenas de miles de personas se manifiestan en España para mostrar su apoyo a Maricarmen

En Madrid, se han concentrado diez mil personas frente al polémico ático comprado por el Gobierno de Isabel Díaz Ayuso en el barrio madrileño de Chamberí para reclamar ese inmueble para Maricarmen....

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Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC, gets the UN stage. Palestine is denied the hall. He gets the hall. Palestine gets the streets of every continent and millions of free voices across the world. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

@mayor.seattle.gov Hello Katie, Please don't turn on any surveillance cameras in the Pioneer Square area for now. If we can prevent ICE from committing even one kidnapping in Seattle, all other considerations are secondary. We both know the bad guys will use any tool at their disposal. Ken