Sherrod Brown: Data centers really show whose side you’re on. Are you going to do the bidding of those companies from out of state that don’t give a damn about local communities? Or are you going to stand with the public?
Wendy's Wondering 🌳
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Wandering and wondering through the weirdness Seeking truth & relishing mystery * resisting tyranny * planting trees If loyalty is required, our country is not free Liberty and justice for all - we've never had it, but I want it 🗽🤎🌈♀️😷🌍🐘🌳✌️
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social shares thoughts at the 80th celebration of the UN: "Information integrity is the mother of all battles. Win this, and we can win the rest. Lose this, and we lose everything." Ressa urges us to fight to elevate facts, journalism, democracy.
Maria Ressa at UNGA 80th anniv: 'Information integrity is the mother of all battles'
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Thanks! Full article here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Rebecca Bodenheimer@rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 4d agoGod this is so smart @sarahkendzior.bsky.social An example of how white supremacy works in such hidden, nefarious ways
Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.
Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Democrats, voting advocates mobilize to stop Trump from sending federal agents to polls — or anywhere near them
Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm election...
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Haha. This guy actually ran for governor of California. He's an Oath Keeper and the kind of guy that creeps around goth clubs inviting people to his key parties. It's like if Meatloaf and Greg Bovino had a baby.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d agoBREAKING NYT: The California Supreme Court just ordered a county sheriff to return about 650,000 ballots he seized from election officials as part of an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact.
A good run down of the various GOP defections or criticisms of Trump in battleground races (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump’s Grip on GOP Slips as Midterm Election Anxiety Sets In
As Donald Trump took an aggressive stance on the global stage at the United Nations on Tuesday, several Senate Republicans were breaking from the president back in Washington.
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NEW: The Fox News bureau chief has told global media outlets that the five major networks that rotate pool duty - ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox will NOT PARTICIPATE in White House pool duties after Trump banned CNN. There will be NO pool coverage. 1/ www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Major TV networks decline White House pool duties
The move comes after the Trump administration restricted access to the White House for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO.
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News: Major U.S. TV networks are standing together in solidarity with CNN after the Trump administration barred CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House. With CNN blocked from carrying out its scheduled TV pool duties, the other networks are declining to replace them.
Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge.
Oh, that’s just Stephen Speilberg in a respirator at the Lucas Museum opening during a Covid surge, like a BOSS.
The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available. Now everything will be sent to Amazon cloud server and it may become part of LLM training. Only Amazon knows what they are going to do with all that data.
The White House launching "Trump TV" using taxpayer funds is propaganda, and a federal crime. @cerin.bsky.social and @rachelegoodman.bsky.social explain the law barring taxpayer-funded propaganda media and what the fallout could look like. ➡️ Read the full analysis: https://protdem.org/4dLXvwP
I understand* why FB & Reddit were used to train LLMs. But it's wild AI was taught to mine FB & Reddit for data and answers. Shouldn't it have been equipped with an atlas, an almanac and a calculator?
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
$115 million will go toward worker relief, with another $16+ million in civil penalties. DoorDash will also face three years of monitoring of its pay practices. “No corporation is above the law,” Mamdani said.
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
Mamdani announces $135 million settlement with DoorDash after an investigation revealed they were underpaying workers.
Today, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash for systematic violations of New York City's Delivery Worker Laws. This relief will go to over 260,000 delivery workers who were underpaid, paid late, or never paid at all for work they had done.
Can we all collectively lobby the FDA to approve the annual Covid vax BEFORE school starts? Covid is not seasonal, schools are the #1 vector, and kids get Long Covid. It is a failure of public health to ignore these facts, that have devastating and lethal consequences @fda.gov
Soooooooo like half of Baltimore currently has Covid or just had Covid recently
www.reuters.com/business/env... European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy and water, as concerns grow over their consumption of resources.
EU to require data centres to disclose energy and water efficiency
The European Commission proposed rules on Monday requiring data centres in Europe to disclose how efficiently they use energy and water, as concerns grow over their consumption of resources.
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Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller. trib.al/0n1ZGfS
Trump Sends Millions to Authoritarian Leaders in Deportation Crackdown
The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller.
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Peter Thiel has the wheel: “US Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Department subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26…1/
Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
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