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Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

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Reasons for hope: Lots of amazing people did a ton of work to make this fantastic, fully interactive resource available - because no matter how bleak things seem, there are millions, and millions of people doing everything they can to protect both the world and their own communities.

You can use this to view and subscribe to updates, project statuses, and for at least some of them even whole dossiers. This is an amazing resource, I highly recommend checking it out

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“The values adopted by Western Christianity are, foundationally, the opposite of the teachings of Jesus. Jesus talked of loving our neighbors, especially the ones we dislike. Today, Western Christians spread hate and indifference, and they even sanction hunting down immigrants. The Samaritans shared a common border with Israel during Jesus’s day; but instead of cheering the deportation of his Samaritan neighbors, Jesus both welcomed them and learned from them.”

— Randy Woodley

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Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

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Companies are realizing artificial intelligence can't do everything after all, prompting them to rehire employees to grow their businesses

Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

Automaker Ford is reportedly rehiring hundreds of experienced human engineers to work on quality issues that automated systems couldn’t address.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IBM are also refocusing on human capital after making layoffs while investing in artificial intelligence technology.

Making employees redundant while using more AI may not necessarily offer the best route to business growth, analysts say.

Companies are rapidly changing their minds that artificial intelligence can “do it all” by rehiring employees to propel their businesses forward, as investors fret over the longevity of the ongoing AI boom happening in the financial markets.

Automaker Ford is one of the latest companies to reverse course. It is reportedly reemploying hundreds of experienced human engineers to work on quality issues automated systems couldn’t address. “Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told the media.

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Bravest man in America...

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“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men have sunk every dollar and ounce of brain matter into trying to make LLMs into something they’re not, and we, as a society, are expected to coddle these things and act like they’re exceptional, and give them credit for things that have yet to take place. I refuse to buy into the premise that LLMs’ ability to generate code or replicate open source software is proof that these things will become a powerful, autonomous tool in the future, and I think those that extrapolate to that point are either intellectually bankrupt, deeply cynical or so easily-fooled that they click every single email claiming their Paypal account has been compromised.”

— The AI Industry Is Losing

(via Exclusive: Oracle is Forcing Employees to Hand Over Their Face)

Oracle now forces their staff and contractors in the USA to hand over their facial biometric data, and you could lose your job if you refuse.

Documents shared exclusively with Crust News showed there is no opt-out for employees.

The new rule came into effect on July 1, the company refused to comment when we reached out to them.

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Abolish ICE and find jail cells for every person who took at job there since Jan 20, 2025.

(via Why Authoritarians Try to Control Gay Men and Not Gay Women)

Homosexuality has never been policed because of sex.

The double standard was never really about sex. It was about hierarchy. Male homosexuality threatened masculinity, inheritance, military order, paternal authority, and the brittle little fiction that men are naturally born to dominate.

Female homosexuality was often ignored, not because patriarchy was tolerant, but because patriarchy was arrogant. Women’s desire simply didn’t count unless a penis had clocked in for work.

Superstitions fed the phobia. Justinian blamed earthquakes on gay men because he lived in an age without geology. We don’t have that excuse today. We have science. We have data. And yet Conservatives are still superstitious enough to believe that gay men can be “reprogrammed,” as if sexuality is a switch you can flip back to straight.

Today’s authoritarians won’t blame natural disasters on gay men. Not yet. They’ll blame school shootings, demographic decline, military weakness, civic decay, or whatever “woke” crisis is convenient. The target will shift, the accusation will modernize, but the instinct remains the same: find the men who don’t follow the script and make them pay for it.

But here’s the trick that the transphobic tribe always misses: Once you are policing one group’s sexuality, it is only a matter of time before you are policing everyone’s sexuality.

A thermal satellite operated by British company SatVu captured something the cryptocurrency industry would prefer stayed invisible — the full physical heat signature of one of the largest Bitcoin mining operations on the planet. Located in Rockdale, Texas, in the United States, the facility consumes approximately 700 megawatts of electricity. To understand what that means in human terms: 700 megawatts is enough electricity to power 300,000 American homes simultaneously, drawn continuously, around the clock, to solve mathematical puzzles that produce no physical product. SatVu's sensors, capable of detecting temperature variations at a resolution down to 11.5 feet, mapped active cooling systems, overloaded electrical grids, and racks of heat-generating mining hardware in striking thermal detail from orbit.

The imagery makes undeniable something that the industry has historically kept abstract. Critics have long argued that cryptocurrency mining's energy cost is real but largely hidden from public view, buried inside electrical bills and inside corporate server halls that most people never see. A thermal satellite photograph of a Bitcoin mine at night — blazing with waste heat visible from space — changes that calculation permanently. A single Bitcoin transaction generates carbon dioxide equivalent to driving a gasoline car for 1,600 miles. Across millions of daily transactions, the cumulative climate cost is staggering. Data centers driven by AI, cloud computing, and crypto mining combined now account for approximately 0.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, a figure growing rapidly.

Advocates for thermal satellite monitoring argue this technology represents exactly what environmental accountability requires — objective, real-time, orbital evidence of heat waste from digital infrastructure that has historically operated entirely beyond the reach of conventional environmental oversight.

Source: Pultarova, T. Space.com, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace was the only member to vote "present."

Here’s the part they’re not telling you: some of this is already known. Taxpayers paid over half a million dollars covering for SEVEN former House members both parties. And these settlements got banned back in 2018, so this is about cleaning up years of buried secrets, not stopping something happening today. Still transparency is transparency. Every name deserves daylight.

Now here’s my real question: this covers Congress, but I wonder if that same energy will ever make its way down Pennsylvania Avenue to a certain someone with a very expensive settlement history of his own. 🤔

What do you think will the accountability ever reach the top?

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