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I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers

Charts, charts, charts. 🔗 I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers
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August 28th, 2026
How Autocracies Recruit “Loyal Losers” to Do Their Dirty Work

This is a summary of the research on how midlevel mediocrity sustains modern authoritarianism. Summarized by AI. 🔗 How Autocracies Recruit “Loyal Losers” to Do Their Dirty Work
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July 2nd, 2026
‘Fix this code.’ The three words that led the U.S. government to ban Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos

Amazon’s jailbreak of Fable was simple: asked to “review the code for security issues” the model refused, but asked to “fix this code” it produced patches, and since it had to find the vulnerabilities to generate the fixes, the same route could serve an attacker. Katie Moussouris argues this cannot meaningfully be fixed without weakening…
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June 19th, 2026
Big Tech And The Trump Admin Want To Make AI Data Center Opposition A Chinese Criminal Conspiracy

In south Memphis, two Musk data centres, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, are powered by 57 natural gas turbines pumping smog and toxic pollutants into minority neighbourhoods already seeing disproportionate rates of harm. Argues moves are underway to reframe opposition to AI data centres as criminality. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Big Tech And The Trump…
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June 19th, 2026
The silent revolutionaries

Maybe the boomers aren’t the ones responsible. It was their parents. 🔗 The silent revolutionaries
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June 18th, 2026
What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers

Commentary on mass layoffs leaving thousands of federal workers unemployed and struggling to find their footing as AI accelerates disruption across the public sector. Summarized by AI. 🔗 What DOGE taught us about AI and federal workers
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June 18th, 2026
‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

Live by trickle down economics, die by trickle down economics. 🔗 ‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart
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May 14th, 2026
Trump’s pressure on Apple to make All-American phones ignores the last tech giant that tried and failed – If no one wants the product, it doesn’t matter where it’s made. // “In the end, Motorola’s failed U.S. adventure had little to do with where the Moto X was assembled, by all accounts. The phone simply…
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July 8th, 2025
What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news? – Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism – “[F]requent use of ChatGPT is rare, with just 1% using it on a daily basis in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the USA.” But: “Younger people…
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May 31st, 2024
Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States

Social stuff: ‘Maybe this is the most important result: since 1976 there has not been much divergence between liberal and conservative attitudes toward civil liberties or law enforcement. The divergence on government spending is noticeable but not enormous (see p.39). the divergence on “Marriage, Sex, Abortion” is quite large. In another words, the true polarization…
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July 3rd, 2018