Tag: community

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.

Rejecting data center inevitability in Tucson Arizona.

How Tucson fought back against Big Tech What an Amazon data center in the desert says about our economy Justin Stofferahn Aug 10, 2025 – You’re Probably Getting Screwed One of the political challenges decades of unchecked economic consolidation creates is a sense of inevitability. We might all be getting screwed in the second Gilded […]

Pennsylvania American Water seems a little nervous.

I’m seeing PA American Water commercials on youtube making claims about how safe and reliable they are. You know it’s bad and they’re probably feeling some heat. There must be a lot of people writing letters like I have about the fees, the slow processing of payments, the dirty water without notice, and the pollution of our local river.

Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.

This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]

Mistaken houses, mistaken identities, a serious danger for us all.

Smash & grabs by the government with a lack of due process are the threat to everyone in every neighborhood.

Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.

I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.

Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.

Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.

Letters to reps.

each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect

Lots of stuff presented as “public health” is not.

Is it a product cult or MLM? Is it just some PR operation? Are they providing effective strategies and information or just wasting a lot of time? There may indeed be different paths and approaches that people want to take with things, but the problem is that it’s not always clear what you’re getting into […]

No, we don’t need some big company’s social media algorithm to connect on the internet.

Email still exists by the way. Just sayin’.

Communities have been, and continue to be, manipulated.

Public health isn’t about a niche group with special or secret practices, and community care shouldn’t be gate kept away from people who for whatever reason haven’t been afforded information or opportunity.