It’s not just bad, it’s not just harmful, but it’s also ruining the potential good.
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Homeowners insurance companies are using shoddy AI and distorted Google Earth imagery to raise rates for customers.
Insurance companies shouldn’t be allowed to use Google Earth or Google street view images or automated AI and LLM to make decisions on coverage or rates.
The anti-vax disinformation and covid contrarianism has likely harmed the ability of public health to function in communities generally.
“Measles outbreak investigation in Utah blocked by patient who refuses to talk”
Anticircumvention laws are authoritarian monopolistic industry killers.
kill the killswitches
Kirsten Sinema promoting something should be the biggest red flag.
Kirsten Sinema went to city council threatening that they need to accept data centers and AI, and threatening if they don’t, Trump will make them.
Data centers powered by old jet turbines, what could possibly go wrong?
And apparently “closed loop” water systems don’t actually mean you won’t be put on a water restriction if these monster palaces come to your community.
Podcast that discusses the state of America weekly talked about Platner.
It Could Happen Here October 31, 2025 • Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #39
Middle aged white American citizen male retired police officer jailed for quoting Donald Trump’s own words on social media.
How many people have been jailed for shit like this that aren’t white male retired police officers?
Disparaging masks is a big problem when personal liberties and health justice are under attack.
The disabled high risk are among the few people masking in public at all for health reasons. And many can’t even afford the best medical respiratory protection available.
Companies that are probably maneuvering for short-term gains should not be trusted as fortune-tellers.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but companies sometimes announce layoffs, or do mass layoffs, or even financially unwise offshoring or whatever, just to send a “signal” to the stock market, because they’ve all been trained that Wall Street loves a company that’s slashed a bunch of jobs.
More blame the user for the problems and flaws with AI chatbot LLM products.
Sadly seeing this more from content creators on social media.
Communities are coming together against big tech data centers and saying “meh, not much value”
I still can’t find out if either of the other county commissioners signed a nondisclosure agreement about data centers; they haven’t answered me.
The financialization and bankification of all of society.
I’d like to see some policy and regulation to stop this shit because it stinks of scams and leads to harm.
No thanks to raw milk cheese.
“Live H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months”
High levels of lead in protein supplements.
“Protein supplements are wildly popular, but CR’s tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day”
Tesla deliberately introduced road hazard with carmageddon mode in its vehicles.
This is seriously wrong.
We the people see where the data centers & their AI slop is taking us.
The funny thing is I think the over the top AI hype has actually had a sort of Streisand Effect for AI in particular, because now people hate it even more than all the other environment wrecking industries.
Environmental advocacy is assiduously ignored by the media.
And by media, I mean left “independent” and alternative media too. Anyone who’s looking for clicks and to make money online seems to ignore it. It’s not really a mystery why, it’s by design.
Media point blank lies to the public in Tennessee about the shutdown.
This youtuber says that the news station didn’t fact check it when Rep. Diana Harshbarger claimed that she’s had NO complaints about the shutdown, when this woman knows that she and others have been complaining.
Data center support becoming a third rail in local politics.
All candidates in a Pennsylvania municipality are reluctant now to embrace data center development. Public pressure works.
Google ordered concerned employees back to a bedbug infested office.
And we know that employees weren’t happy about being called back to the bedbug infested office because that’s what leads to incidents like this leaking to journalists.