Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is seeking to throw out a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company, xAI, over the data center's air pollution, saying it has the right to run polluting gas-burning turbines in Mississippi despite not having permits for them.

D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Pollution Lawsuit Against Elon Musk’s Data Center

The department cited national security concerns, saying Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens.

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This consultation (pdf) on what has led to the social media ban for under 16s is worth reading. It shows that parents and teens are much more aligned on the kinds of measures that would actually work for all of us, rather than just a blanket ban assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2f00...

Brazil (Presidential Election, second round), CNT/MDA poll: Lula (PT, centre-left): 57% (+4) F. Bolsonaro (PL, right): 43% (-4) (+/- vs. April 2026) Fieldwork: 10-14 June 2026 Sample size: 2,002 #Brazil

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

The shift to EVs continued to accelerate. EV production grew 18%, accelerating from just 4% in April, showing accelerating sales in China and abroad. Production of fuel-burning vehicles fell sharply, by 22%.

I’m sorry but it’s extremely funny that Israel is quickly realizing, to extreme stupor and fury, that this war is a catastrophic setback for Israel

Die neue Grundsicherung kommt unweigerlich mit dem 1.7. und damit auch mehr Totalsanktionen. Wir von @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social sind und bleiben am Start und werden so viele Menschen wie möglich unterstützen! Danke @taz.de für das ausführliche Interview! taz.de/Neue-Grundsi...

Neue Grundsicherung tritt in Kraft: „Das wird ein harter Kampf“

Die neue Grundsicherung sieht härtere Sanktionen vor. Das sei auch für Menschen mit Arbeit eine Bedrohung, sagt die Aktivistin Helena Steinhaus.

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The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Palestine Action terror ban remains in place after Home Office wins appeal

Government's decision to proscribe group 'struck a fair balance', Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr tells Court of Appeal

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The familiar, fascinating Trumpian scheme: 1. Yell at status quo 2. Assault status quo incoherently 3. Terrify world 4. Retreat to situation worse than old status quo 5. Declare victory, move on to next topic. Somehow this cements his support base? www.ft.com/content/088c...

Trump administration considers $300bn fund for Iran if deal is upheld

Incentives would be tied to Tehran’s ‘performance’ including over opening of the Strait of Hormuz and nuclear talks

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It's cool how Peter Thiel is both a transhumanist and a Christian eschatologist. Like he believes that humanity will upload itself into a dyson swarm of sentient nanomachines then Jesus will turn up and be like 'Yeah, I'm a carpenter, I don't know what any of this shit is'.

Sowas lässt sich leicht sagen, wenn die schwerste körperliche Belastung des Arbeitstags wahrscheinlich das Aufklappen des Laptops ist. Frag mal den Dachdecker mit kaputten Knien. Den Altenpfleger mit Bandscheibenvorfall. Oder den Bauarbeiter, der seit 45 Jahren jeden Morgen um 5 Uhr aufsteht ...

Ever since I saw the first wind farms as as kid I've always said: "that's cool as fuck" I don't understand why anyone would think otherwise

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lol

"Soixante-Huitdardenstreich" #Konzept

One year ago today, a shooter targeting Minnesota Democratic lawmakers assassinated Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman in her home in Brooklyn Park. The assassin also shot and killed her husband, Mark, and the family’s beloved dog, Gilbert.

Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb

Was skimming through the Wikipedia page on world records in chess, and this has to be one of the funniest things that’s ever happened in the history of the sport.

there are structural issues related to data centers but yes to the point here. xAI's facility is knowingly and willfully illegal per 40 year old provisions in federal law. Red letter illegal. Everyone i know who works in Clean Air Act Permitting drops their jaw when i explain the basic facts at hand

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes, Elon Musk built a big data center project in Memphis, and attached a bunch of unregulated gas peaker plants. This is VERY BAD and should be opposed and prevented. Your problem is with the peaker plants, not the data center - no one thinks power plants should be built without regulation.

Mit der Ankündigung ihres Ko-Vorsitzenden, Jan van Aken, nicht mehr anzutreten, ist es für Ines Schwerdtner der richtige Moment, um zurückzuschauen auf das, was gemeinsam erreicht wurde, welche Fehler gemacht wurden und was offen geblieben ist. 👉 buff.ly/WQhu9lj

What an absolute boss.

Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🇲🇽 Mexico wipes out #farm debts for tens of thousands of small producers. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government will forgive or #RestructureDebts owed by small farmers, fishers and rural producers to Mexico’s former agricultural finance agency, clearing liabilities for 99.5% of debtors.

Cutting global net emissions to zero using existing technical and policy solutions will cost at most a few percent of GDP, with many solutions economically beneficial. Halving global emissions by limiting GDP growth costs about half of the global GDP. Not a tough choice.

Thomas Piketty@thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice. We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumption, and changes in food habits.

Median new home size grew from 1,660 to 2,420 sq ft between 1971 and 2025 while households shrank. Legalizing smaller footprints and narrower lots is key to affordability. www.housingwire.com/articles/sta...

We have met one enemy of housing affordability ... it is us

Home size increased by about 46% since 1971, and buyers now expect more rooms and amenities, raising costs for entry-level housing.

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Josh Marshall is gonna keep TPM's eye on these developments in Ohio, where Trump's FBI is doing what it can to subvert free elections by intimidating voter mobilization organizations.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Autocracy Building in Ohio — Keep a Close Eye on This talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/autoc...

Mirze Edis zu Saarstahl: #Saarstahl hat ein Stahlwerk als First Mover auf den Weg der kompletten Dekarbonisierung gemacht. Statt Pioniere zu unterstützen, rammt Katherina #Reiche diesem Vorreiter in der deutschen #Industrie das Messer in den Rücken. www.dielinkebt.de/presse/press...

Klassenprimus der Energiewende darf nicht bestraft werden

"Wie die Salzgitter AG hat sich mit Saarstahl ein Stahlwerk als First Mover auf den Weg der kompletten Dekarbonisierung gemacht. Hierfür nimmt das Unternehmen 4,6 Milliarden Euro in die Hand, um forts...

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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Banning cock and ball torture because of collateralized loan obligations is literally paternalism

Der Deutsche Ethikrat sagt „Nein“ zum Social-Media-Verbot. Ausführlich besprechen die Expert*innen auch die Gefahren von #Alterskontrollen, inklusive "Missbrauch und Zensur". Was heißt das für die Debatte in Deutschland? Lest hier meine Analyse. netzpolitik.org/2026/absiche...

Deutscher Ethikrat sagt „Nein“ zu Social-Media-Verbot

Der Deutsche Ethikrat mischt die Social-Media-Debatte auf. Dem vielfach geforderten Verbot für Minderjährige verpassen die Expert*innen eine Abfuhr – und warnen eindringlich vor den Gefahren von Alter...

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Bayern will gegen die Vergesellschaftung großer Wohnungskonzerne in Berlin vorgehen – aus Angst um die private Bauwirtschaft. Diese Befürchtung ist völlig unbegründet. (1/5) 👇 www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Nach Bayerns Vorstoß gegen Enteignungen: Lob und Irritation

Von der Wirtschaft und den Grünen im Landtag kommt Lob für Bayerns Kampf gegen die Verstaatlichung von Berliner Wohnungen. Die Initiative "Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen" beklagt dagegen einen "bayeri...

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This FT piece about how Germany is fixing its railways, and why it has to, is not bad www.ft.com/content/db75... It's one of few such articles where I am not screaming at my screen because they made some error

Germany’s €100bn bid to make the trains run on time

The country’s railway renewal is the first test of whether Europe’s largest economy can reverse years of decline

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