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Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social · yesterday

Meta "announced a $1 billion 'Future Is For Everyone' fund to pour money into the communities where Meta has data centers. The company is planning up to $145 billion in capital spending this year, largely to build out AI infrastructure." I see. $1 for communities, $145 to destroy them.

Inside Big Tech’s Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI

Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.

wsj.com

Troublemakers@troublemakers.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sooo good. “This is where the decisions are made,” said Christina. “We are living in a place where we have influence, & it’s our responsibility to show up here & to fight in solidarity with all those places where people are fighting data centers on the ground every single day.” With rogue agents!

Washington AI Resistance@wa-air.bsky.social · 6d ago

Energetic protest at the Bellevue building expected to be the second biggest OpenAI office if the expansion goes through. “No chat, no Palantir, your super PAC’s not welcome here.” You can say that again!

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

NEW: “They have given us two presentations in the last three years at the request of our police department who wanted to implement them,” Stephen Tyler Holman, the mayor of Norman, said. “They haven’t been back since I’ve been mayor.” @mjgault.bsky.social spoke to him about why he rejected Flock.

The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town

“I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”

404media.co

Washington AI Resistance@wa-air.bsky.social · 2w ago

Legislators in Oregon couldn't get data center tax breaks rescinded in March—but now, 4 have proposed a 3 YEAR MORATORIUM on data centers, saying "the ground's shifted". And how! Are we gonna let them show us up, Washingtonians? Sign here! actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...

Democratic lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new large data centers in Oregon • Washington State Standard

Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.

washingtonstatestandard.com

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 3w ago

You know Seattle's affordability crisis is serious when Police Chief Shon Barnes (who makes $373,000 per year) is complaining about his rent at a press conference just now.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3w ago

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3w ago

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh my God - the company making the "lifelike" humanoid classroom robots also owns the company that makes the RealDoll sex dolls

The classroom marks a new venture for Realbotix, a Toronto-based robotics company formerly known as Tokens.com, that helped customers use cryptocurrency to rent “digital land” in the Metaverse. In April 2024, the company acquired Simulcra, the Las Vegas parent company behind RealDoll, which has spent decades creating hyperrealistic sex dolls and later expanded into sex robots that remain on the market today. In a statement to New York Focus, a spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Realbotix has built a new team focused on education, health care, and wellness applications, and that Realbotix and RealDoll do not share employees, payroll, physical locations, or technology. She said Realbotix “is pursuing a transaction with a Nasdaq-listed company that is intended to separate the businesses at the ownership level” with completion expected by September.
Erica Meltzer@ericameltzer.bsky.social · 4w ago

A spokesperson explained that over the past two years, Realbotix has built a new team focused on education, health care, and wellness applications, and that Realbotix and RealDoll do not share employees, payroll, physical locations, or technology. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...

Fey (フェイ)@feytaline.bsky.social · last mo.

THIS How does YOUR favorite con rank in doing the *bare minimum?* You'd probably be surprised at how many have nothing at ALL, or just a "cosplay is not consent" line shoved in the dress code. cosplayer-ssn.org/rp/home.php

Convention Harassment Policy Report Card

cosplayer-ssn.org

D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · last mo.

events need strong anti harassment policies that are clearly expressed and quickly enforced. For a long time fandom pretended this kind of thing wasn't a problem, but the old days of broken stairs and social fallacies are moving behind us, hopefully

mrdang 🍥@mrdang.photos · last mo.

INB4 a tech bro insists that Lindsay Graham actually still holds his Senate seat because they trained an 'AI' Senator on his voting record which will continue serving in his place. 🤢

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Epic’s law team when they remember there are over 110 lawsuits against GenAi models in the US—lawsuits for copyright infringement amongst other violations— and the Unreal team is out there advertising LLMs as a central feature to one of their biggest products.

Cartoon business man being calm in one frame and extremely worried in the other
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The road to Unreal Engine 6' - www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa... "for UE6, we see LLMs, generative AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a central role in helping you build content faster while maintaining the creative control you need."