"Business Insider reports that a trailer containing about $300,000 worth of copper wire spool, which can be used for powering data center servers, was recovered last week by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in a truck yard near Chicago." www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists

Authorities recover $1.3 million worth of data center supplies and equipment in a truck stop near Chicago. Equipment like this is a prime target for theft rings given its high value, but it's also lik...

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🚨🚨🚨 AI and finance are here to concretize the post-covid decline in the labor share of income. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/06/the-...

The Post-COVID Decline in the Labor Share - Liberty Street Economics

A look at the decline of the labor share of income that occurred post-COVID, comparing its dynamics to declines in earlier periods.

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Piece in CCPA with @marxist.af on surveillance pricing. We gathered industry webinars and earnings calls to study how firms are using AI to set individualized prices. We found that surveillance pricing is built on existing market power and infrastructure. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“Surveillance pricing” is already here—Canada needs laws to stop it | CCPA

Driven by big tech and corporate concentration, companies are using surveillance to warp prices and extract from consumers

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It is eye popping how wildly inaccurate estimates for data center tax breaks have been. Ohio thought its program would cost less than $150million, but it’s actually over $1billion

Good Jobs First@goodjobsfirst.org · 2mo ago

“These numbers confirm that lawmakers were working with wildly inaccurate information,” said @policymattersohio.bsky.social. “Forecasts weren’t just off, they missed the mark by more than a billion dollars, undermining responsible policymaking and public trust.” goodjobsfirst.org/ohio-data-ce...

Examples of other mutual aid or cause type orgs linktr.ee/DASHRorg denverantiwar.org A good way to find local orgs can be going to your local DSA and PSLs instagram and looking at who they follow and post with / tag

!!! Trump appointees at Treasury push for $250 bill with his face on it. Director of Bureau of Printing & Engraving, who resisted the effort, said she was involuntarily reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye. wapo.st/4fM4Hei

Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait

The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.

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All this time we thought we were living in the Star Trek/Federation timeline, but we're actually living in the Terran Empire timeline. #startrek

Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives hate it—and them.

Meet the Sad Wives of AI

Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate it—and them.

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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Voters think they can have it all: an affordable life and a livable planet. They are right. Both is at the core of an anti-fascist economics that centers on making life livable for all rather than letting the far right dystopia of a burning planet rule. Chart via @triofrancos.bsky.social

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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”An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.”

Lady Talia@djtalia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Today @theguardian.com has a big profile on @cplusc.bsky.social and our Stop Greed, Build Green working class climate agenda. The piece does a great job of capturing where we've been, what we're trying to accomplish, and why green economic populism beats fossil fueled fascism.

As household bills soar, is it time for a ‘working-class climate agenda’?

Proposal from group that worked with AOC and Bernie Sanders seeks to counter claim that climate policy is politically toxic

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bad

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Breaking news: The sweeping move from Wall Street’s top watchdog has the potential to shift the balance of power from shareholders to chief executives. ft.trib.al/3ECqhXA

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

automated idiocracy

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing

JFC - Are we done with Capitalism yet!! youtu.be/-TlYoVsW5ko?...

The Merger That Needed A War

YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

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My latest: A mile high and beneath contempt: The Trumpworld affair you really didn't want to know about but should because it's kinda funny. Ever heard of someone firing a pilot mid-flight? Corey Lewandowski did. Free links/subscriptions. Please read the column before commenting.

A mile high and beneath contempt

High-flying Noem and Lewandowski diddle our dollars away

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got them both but I've read that women who take their hubby's family name may have problems voting because the current name won't match the married name - take your marriage cert...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish articles and charge for premium content. Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform. Continue reading...

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Oh look, it's Melania emailing Ghislaine, praising a profile of Jeffrey Epstein, and signed Love, Melania. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The whole interview is worth it

lumie's dad@classhuggle.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reporter: "How long will you be out here?" random minneapolitan: "till my balls get cold"

Looks like we're back to wanting to "acquire" Canada, too Note that Venezuela is not just being "managed" by the US, but is flagged as part of the US If nobody has the guts to remove him from office, somebody should at least take grandpa's phone away at night before he starts WWIII

The kids are alright.

New Data On How Trump Is Polling With Gen Z Is A Disastrous Wake-Up Call For His Administration

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bloody hell day: Carney on the USEFUL FICTION of the US rules-based order, where trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, where laws applied to the weakest and where the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I desperately want this World Cup to crash and burn. It would suck for our local economy, but we can’t pretend this shit is normal. Even Hitler hosted the damn Olympics

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.