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He/Him 🔎 "Datacenter sweat" : https://bsky.app/search?q=AI%7Cwater%7Cdatacenter+from%3A%40kypetzl.bsky.social
Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought. Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: www.citationneeded.news/2026-electio...
A crypto and AI money guide to election night
Where crypto and AI super PACs are spending, what their ads won’t talk about, and which races could embarrass them.
citationneeded.news
But in all seriousness for fuck’s sake vote today and don’t vote for fascists. We can go back to yelling at everybody who sucks next week. Time to make the white supremacists who killed our neighbors in the street and opened up foreign blacksite concentration camps feel some pain. Your vote helps.
Rather than advancing a clean energy future, this proposal would entrench fossil fuel development for decades, expand the infrastructure that locks us into continued pollution, and benefit the industries driving the #ClimateCrisis. Take action 🔗⬇️
Protect Bedrock Environmental Laws
The U.S. Senate will soon vote on a massive legislative package that contains 77 distinct environmental attacks. Tell your senators to defend crucial environmental laws and our air, water, wildlife, a...
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BAAJA contains 77 dangerous provisions that undermine bedrock environmental laws all so fossil fuel companies, Big Tech, and other polluters can speed through destructive projects — with less public oversight and fewer legal protections. And, the legislation comes under the guise of clean energy.
Americans shouldn’t have to choose between modern infrastructure and the laws that protect clean water, public lands, endangered wildlife, and Tribal rights. A new bill package in the U.S. Senate is up for consideration: Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (S.5653) AKA #BAAJA.
"Meanwhile, water use concerns are rising in the southern Black Hills due to proposals to mine for uranium in the region."
DeniseG@denisegutzmer.bsky.social · yesterdayMajor aquifers in South Dakota in decline, threatening fresh water supplies The combined effects of rising population, long-range drought and increased residential, commercial and agricultural water use are causing water shortages across South Dakota. #drought www.sdnewswatch.org/south-dakota...
Major aquifers in South Dakota in decline, threatening fresh water supplies The combined effects of rising population, long-range drought and increased residential, commercial and agricultural water use are causing water shortages across South Dakota. #drought www.sdnewswatch.org/south-dakota...
Major aquifers in South Dakota in decline, threatening fresh water supplies
"We’ll reach a point where all the currently available water supply will all be in use, and in that case, the next family or business that comes to South Dakota will have to bring their own water."
sdnewswatch.org
instead of going to a con this weekend I dived way too deep in a rabbit hole for stepmania all to just answer the question: What is this unused 8 player mode in In The Groove PC? If you like game dev and/or Rhythm Games or cut content please give this thread a read! I swear it's cool! 🙏
Nemi@leafeon.dev · 7d agoI restored an entirely unused 8 player Multiplayer mode on In The Groove PC (2006) ! youtu.be/dAkkU06MeCM
It makes me so disappointed when I see supporters of this movement turn it into a contest of who is the better consumer when that isn’t what they’re asking for at all. It’s about targeted and continued pressure in whatever way you can do.
I’m so glad that @papapishu.bsky.social was able to include the statement he got from organizers for BDS in full for this article. I appreciated this portion of it a lot. aftermath.site/we-must-kill...
North Korea’s timing was inconsiderate; I’m in the middle of an election night guide to crypto and AI super PAC spending (subscribe to get it before Tuesday!). But I wrote up a primer on the Binance hack, answering questions I’ve gotten about North Korea: www.citationneeded.news/its-always-n...
It’s always North Korea
Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes
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“There’s a lot going on in this election,” @molly.wiki says, “but I do think it has been a big issue in Maine and across the country, where you’ll go to a political event, you’ll see people asking questions of candidates, and AI keeps coming up."
Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate
Tech billionaires are spending big in Maine’s Senate race.
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In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside @publiccitizen.bsky.social. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 4d agoCoinbase scored another federal contract. Does that make its campaign contributions illegal? https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/coinbase-marshal-service-contract-political-contributions
Literally just a DDoS attack on the concept of anything good existing.
coil@coil.bsky.social · 3d agoShot, shot, shot, chaser
Met some folks and made some photes with Sasha & Adriana.
Sasha Hupka@sashahupka.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: In 2024, a remote, cash-strapped county blamed malfunctioning ballot printers for a disastrous election. But that's not what actually happened. @votebeat.org and @azcir.org partnered to tell the real story of the fiasco — and how it disenfranchised voters. www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026...
NEW: In 2024, a remote, cash-strapped county blamed malfunctioning ballot printers for a disastrous election. But that's not what actually happened. @votebeat.org and @azcir.org partnered to tell the real story of the fiasco — and how it disenfranchised voters. www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026...
An Arizona county was unprepared for Election Day. Navajo voters paid the price.
Apache County botched an election, then refused to answer questions. Now, it faces another test at the polls.
votebeat.org
So, if LLMs are gonna eat search, Google's only option is to play to win that fight before search is gone. Plausibly you could justify all sorts of choices that are financially bad in an accounting sense because there is simply no other pathway open.
Kind of fascinating the way Alphabet/Google is making less on ads and search because of AI. Presumably they've read The Innovator's Dilemma. They know Blockbuster had an in-house version of Netflix, but didn't deploy it because it was a threat to their core business.
Reyes: Are you kidding me right now? Are you telling me that no one at counsel table thought a question I asked in a hearing about planning the golf course, thought a submission to the National Planning Comissions counted? Woodward: That's what I'm trying to.. Reyes: We're taking a 15-min break
I'll be following the happenings in Judge Reyes' courtroom this morning. She's called Stanley Woodward from the DOJ and Jessica Bowrun from the NPS to explain why Trump says he's closing East Potomac Golf Club after they told her there were no plans to do so.
This hearing, in which Judge Reyes is looking for an explanation about why DOJ told her there wasn't a "final agency action" to close the golf course when there was clearly a final agency action to close the golf course is starting right now.
it's kind of like how when you encounter a sign in the national parks telling you not to do a thing. the existence of that sign tells you that enough people died there doing that thing to put a sign up.
I am not going to try to tell you the banking system is good per se BUT a lot of that shit is the way it is for a reason, and the reason is literally hundreds of years of institutional knowledge of financial shenanigans
Susan Collins bragged about this awful bill during the Senate debates. #mepolitics
Aaron Weiss (no relation)@aweiss.bsky.social · last wk.Today's methane announcement from Trump shows why the Senate permitting bill is so terribly written. It would lock in every single environmental rollback Trump can cram into the next two years. 🧵: 1/
Our statement: westernpriorities.org/2026/10/trum...
Trump plans to roll back methane regulations for all oil and gas wells in the U.S. - Center for Western Priorities
Weaker rules for new wells would lock in years of increased methane pollution if Senate permitting bill passes DENVER—President Donald Trump will roll out plans today to weaken the Environmental Prote...
westernpriorities.org
Trump is moving to gut EPA’s methane rules. His plan scraps the Super Emitter Program and loosens standards for “marginal” wells. Those wells make up nearly 80% of U.S. oil and gas wells and produce about half the methane from production. The permitting bill would make the rollback permanent. 2/
Today's methane announcement from Trump shows why the Senate permitting bill is so terribly written. It would lock in every single environmental rollback Trump can cram into the next two years. 🧵: 1/
NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter. Now it's in PDF, printable form! Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
