"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
Lorelei Lee (they/them)
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99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
NEW: When Microsoft reviewed the early results of Anthropic’s new AI model for cybersecurity, it was a sobering scene: Hundreds of bugs were identified, many of them critical. What followed was a “mad dash” to patch them — but many more remain.
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.
Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...
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AI companies are buying, scanning, and destroying older books to improve their models' training data & avoid problems of "model collapse" (wherein LLMs choke on their own slop). One of their suppliers is Better World Books, which partners with public libraries. www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
my Rowling essay is a good one to share if you know anyone who's still unaware of the monster she's become ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person
During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …
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Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people
My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
theguardian.com
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious. trib.al/BVc95Id
There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
trib.al
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
404media.co
buy @adrierising.bsky.social's collection of essays! #Booksky www.workinggirlspress.com/store/p/mo78...
I Hate My Job Paperback — Working Girls Press
I Hate My Job features essays from former and current sex worker contributors who explore the intersections of criminalized labor, working in an underground economy, respectability politics, class di...
workinggirlspress.com
The team in charge of responding to cyclospora was cut from 11 people to just three. trib.al/bjpxPx1
DOGE Gutted the Office Researching the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite
The team in charge of responding to cyclospora was cut from 11 people to just three.
trib.al
do not use ChatGPT as a search engine. it is not a search engine.
Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w agoHi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.
If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.
The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help
We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: https://propub.li/4fiHDSF
"There is a Trump militia roaming our streets, our towns, our cities, killing people regardless of immigration status with absolutely no accountability."
He Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. Now He’s Detained and Facing Deportation
After ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, last week, they quickly arrested three witnesses: the other men that the 52-year-old father of three was driving to work. The...
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“These are federal agents who kill and face no consequences, and are led by people pushing an ethnic cleansing campaign. These killings are simply part of that job." This is absolutely correct from @melissagiragrant.com
ICE’s Violence Is No Accident. It’s Part of the Job.
After ICE agents killed a man in Maine, the Department of Homeland Security suspended traffic stops, then reversed course. But the official policy is just optics, anyway: Agents know what they’ve been...
newrepublic.com
The primary US anti-trafficking law defines all sex work as trafficking but only criminalizes “severe” forms of trafficking that include force, fraud, or coercion. Turns out this is so that fewer migrant sex workers can access the services & visa process available to trafficking survivors.
This is amazing; 40 women’s organizations standing in support of trans people’s human rights against this government’s targeting of trans people against the EHRC transphobic code. Trans people and cis women’s rights are not in opposition.
Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's Code - LIVE
I’m Women’s organisations speak up against the EHRC's updated Code of Practice We are a collection of women's organisations, networks and community groups that work with and support women across th...
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If you have someone with combat/war zone experience in your life we will also appreciate being fed treats to help us not be scared.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last mo.Reminder for those with young animals that these next few days are good days to feed treats during loud noise time to help them learn not to be scared.
They justified it by calling it “pornography.”
Rewire News Group@rewirenewsgroup.com · last mo.An HHS spokesperson confirmed last week that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states. This story was originally published by @stateline.org.
Free to read this week, the brilliant @evapayne.bsky.social on how the US enforces its own ideologies of sexual morality and sex work internationally foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/29/a...
America’s Sexual Exceptionalism
How Washington shaped global policy toward sex and prostitution.
foreignpolicy.com
It is wild that this paper about 150 year old laws continues to be relevant but here we are
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last mo.just thinking about how the more well-known Chinese Exclusion Act was preceded by the Page Act in 1875—barring women immigrants from Asian countries, who were presumed to be prostitutes. @loreleilee.bsky.social’s paper, linking this to the present:
just thinking about how the more well-known Chinese Exclusion Act was preceded by the Page Act in 1875—barring women immigrants from Asian countries, who were presumed to be prostitutes. @loreleilee.bsky.social’s paper, linking this to the present:
The Roots of “Modern Day Slavery”: The Page Act and the Mann Act – Columbia Human Rights Law Review
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Brian Kilmeade suggests to an agreeing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mulling that pregnant foreign women should be barred from traveling to the United States
I *guess* you can be cis if you really feel that way, but do you have to be so showy about it?
Very exciting to see @loreleilee.bsky.social book is available for pre-order! Books like this are sorely needed to expand understandings of sex work, US history, laws and culture.
Lorelei Lee (they/them)@loreleilee.bsky.social · last mo.Some big news: my book is now available for pre-order 🩷
U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...
DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
wired.com
Late last night the Supreme GOP Court made it virtually impossible to prove racial discrimination in redistricting in a shadow docket case from Alabama. Just beyond awful. Read this by @rickhasen.bsky.social electionlawblog.org?p=156541
Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with A...
You can find the 21 pages of order and dissents at this link. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to change its congressional district lines at the last minute to impose a ma...
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