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Future somebody | Data, Tech, Law, Power | Wake up, oh sleeper...
A hearing on the sale of data is today. This shouldn't be allowed. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/18/b...
Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models | CNN Business
Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model.
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COME WORK at the ACLU! @aclu-norcal.bsky.social is hiring attorneys to work on tech and civil rights (my team) and the criminal legal/immigration system. These folks will work at the cutting edge of legal and policy efforts in California and beyond. Apply here: www.aclunorcal.org/jobs/staff-a...
Staff Attorney / Senior Staff Attorney - ACLU of Northern California
Develop and carry out litigation and policy advocacy to advance to protect and defend civil rights and civil liberties for all Californians.
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RuralxAI (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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ugh.... there's a lot going on here. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Rape trial collapses after 'alleged victim uses AI to prepare'
A rape case at Lewes Crown Court collapsed after the alleged victim, who claimed the defendant raped her while she was under the influence of alcohol and drugs, admitted to using AI.
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Dude, cmon www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results
Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.
bloomberg.com
The Freedom to Be Woke | David Cole A court ruling striking down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act is both a major affirmation of academic freedom and a window into the free-speech debates dividing the right. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The Freedom to Be Woke | David Cole
In the never-ending debate about freedom of speech on college campuses, conservatives have long condemned “cancel culture,” an attitude of intolerance
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Just catching up on Monarch season 2. Did they purposely make all the young people unlikable this season?
Teaching Associate in the social and ethical study of AI: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...
Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics
The Institute for Technology and Humanity (ITH) is seeking a Teaching Associate in the social and ethical study of AI. In our pedagogy and our team, we are committed to engaging with a breadth of posi...
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Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.
Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”
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Are you a map enthusiast looking for an opportunity to explore the vast cartographic collections of the @librarycongress.bsky.social? Applications are now being accepted for the 8-week Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship with the #Geography and #Map Division. Learn more:
The Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship: Applications are Open for 2027, and Learn About Our 2026 Fellows! | Worlds Revealed
The Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship is open to applicants for the 2027 term. Learn more about this unique fellowship opportunity as well as our 2026 Fellows, Dr. Edward Blum and Dr. Laurent…
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over at the newsletter I wrote about racism in broadband deployment and the Trump administration's relentless dedication to making life worse for everyone
U.S. Broadband Is Racist
The U.S. almost got close to acknowledging systemic racism in broadband deployment. Then a coalition of corrupt shitgoblins sent the country spiraling backwards.
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Absolutely nuts fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
fortune.com
The 8th Circuit gutted FCC anti-discrimination rules. Now unequal outcomes alone don’t count; only provable intentional bias does. Black and low-income neighborhoods can still get worse internet at higher prices. No written confession of racism = no remedy. #DigitalRedlining
Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers
Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule.
arstechnica.com
Remember in 2009 when Pres. Obama launched his vision for high-speed rail?
It's not just the Voting Rights Act. On Friday, the Supreme Court finished the Republican Party's quest to erase every tangible legislative achievement of the civil rights movement But we've been here before.
We Lost.
When the Supreme Court dealt the final blow to the Voting Rights Act, it completed its mission to erase the tangible results of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Medical research needs to do more investigating into why the sinus x ear infection combo is like the final boss in Mike Tyson’s Punchout
The language used in the opinion is wild. Framing is everything kids.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit tosses the challenge to Texas's S. B. 4 criminal immigration law on standing grounds. Ten Republican appointees, in an opinion by Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee, vacate the preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law.
![Before ELROD, Chief Judge, and JONES, SMITH, STEWART, RICHMAN, SOUTHWICK, HAYNES, GRAVES, HIGGINSON, WILLETT, HO, DUNCAN, ENGELHARDT, OLDHAM, WILSON, DOUGLAS, and RAMIREZ, Circuit Judges.
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge, joined by ELROD, Chief Judge, and JONES, HAYNES, WILLETT, HO, DUNCAN, ENGELHARDT, OLDHAM, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
"Courts sometimes make standing law more complicated than it needs to be." Bost v. Ill. State Bd. of Elections, 146 S. Ct. 513, 523 (2026) (RoBERTs, C.J.) (citation omitted). "[P]laintiffs must have a 'personal stake' in a case to have standing to sue." Id. at 519 (citing FDA v. All. for Hippocratic Med., 602 U.S. 367, 379(2024)). "Plaintiffs cannot 'manufacture standing by voluntarily' incurring costs." Id. at 522 (citation omitted).
That should be the end of this matter: These Plaintiffs voluntarily incurred costs to advocate for clients. Under recent Supreme Court prece-dent, that falls far short of conferring standing. We vacate the preliminary injunction to the contrary.
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This case concerns whether the State of Texas, exercising its historic, sovereign police powers, can legislatively protect its citizens from a surge of illegal aliens in response to an unprecedented border crisis and a declared invasion. The district court judge and a divided panel held that it cannot.
Because the Plaintiffs that are challenging the new statute lack standing, we vacate the preliminary injunction without addressing the merits of the preemption claim.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreicrcqdktqo5im3pa7jfpplhkwzg2ptcemuwtmvl7crrh6sg635jbu)
“I have a really cool research idea!” I say to my library of half-finished research projects…
Is this phrase something he made up? Who talks like this?
Andrew Roth@roththereporter.bsky.social · 4mo agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear tells Michigan Democrats the party has "let advocacy speak seep into our language." He gives the example of calling inmates the "justice involved population." "If we want to be the party of the people, we've got to talk like we are people," he says.
I could tell you about the time I was in Jackson and asked about the benefits of these data centers for rural communities and how it was as though I’d slapped someone at the dinner table.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 4mo agoThe expansion announcement brings Amazon’s total planned investment in the Magnolia State to $25 billion, Reeves said. This includes $3 billion in 2025 to build an AI data center in Vicksburg and $10 billion in 2024 to construct the first phase of the Madison County data centers.
