Chainmailed Heart

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*DM's WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION WILL GET YOU BLOCKED* 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ pronouns: all, they/them. Socialist. Abolish ICE.🌬️ End fascism. I try not to be an a**hole/argue with a**holes. Trying to upload/repost ways to get involved. Happy to repost protest notices.

The environmental cost being churned out by AI data centers is getting absurd. It spells out a worldview where tech capital and extreme power moves matter more than people, nature, and democracy. It’s a system operating completely without a moral compass.

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

futurism.com

NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis. But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board. With KRIS 6 News and @texastribune.org

Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.

The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despit...

propublica.org

Strongmen are always looking out for number one: themselves. That’s why they create inner sanctums around themselves, surrounding themselves with family members who do not give them objective feedback. We should all be concerned when leaders surround themselves with only sycophants.

We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.

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We cannot have a democracy without factual information, and when oligarchs own the media, we collectively do not get that factual information. We need nonprofit news, nonprofit, community TV, and nonprofit radio. De-monopolization of our media is desperately needed.

Going to note: COVID has been found to do significant brain damage. Sometimes just a little; sometimes more. ... I'm kind of horrified that we allowed it to run rampant here, still. There may be a lot more dementia cases, years ahead, because we decided the losses were acceptable.