This big tech AI data center boondoggle push is leading to soaring electricity prices. Nobody wants that.
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Another attempt, this time at the state level, to legislate forcing consumers into harm from automated stuff without recourse.
Colorado edition. The Lever – Aug 19, 2025 The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws. Helen Santoro Under pressure from tech giants after their legislative loss in Washington, Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has called […]
Whistleblower book about the culty Tesla workplace.
This is an eye opening interview with financial journalist Sönke Iwersen that includes lots of creepy deets about Tesla workplaces in Europe.
Ghost health insurance plans.
Spread the word about sketchy health insurance! You never know who in your life might be buying health insurance and walk ass-backwards into one of these hustles. Health insurance plans tied to fake jobs. Self-employed, small business owners and people in the gig economy are getting ripped off when they think they’re buying health insurance […]
Of course messaging from leadership is a central factor in public health.
Anyone telling anyone that people refused covid mitigations because of personal choice based on rational rejection of vaccines, testing, masks, and remote work, is either lying or themselves a fool.
Another data center project sprung on people by surprise in Missouri by politicians who signed NDAs.
When a big decision with serious ramifications is rushed, that’s a big big red flag for scams and fraud. People are right to want to slow down and allow stakeholders to engage in critical thinking.
I’m sending postcards to elected reps asking them if they’ve signed NDAs.
Elected officials shouldn’t be allowed to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Greed and profiteering in AI is going to crowd out actual technological advances.
We know it will because it’s already been happening, we see it everywhere.
Public officials who sign NDAs should resign because they don’t understand the job.
And there really ought to be a law to prevent any such thing from ever happening where elected officials sign agreements to keep secrets from the communities they serve. I have been hearing about NDAs a lot in relation to data center project plans in Pennsylvania and in Wisconsin, and it’s shocking how this has […]
Town in Wisconsin wants to externalize the impact of a data center to their neighboring village.
In Menomonie Wisconsin, one town’s council is also annexing land of a neighboring town, and externalizing the impact to the people in this other town that they don’t have to answer to, and who can’t vote them out.
Humans can’t live without water, but AI data centers are being prioritized over people.
These residents in Georgia next to a Meta (Facebook) data center have had their tap waters run dry.
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 […]
With the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid looming, nursing homes that stay open may not be humane.
“Opinion: Nursing homes may start sedating your elderly parents — and, eventually, you”
Universities should disclose if students paying exorbitant tuition are getting AI slop.
People don’t go into life altering oppressive debt to go to a university to get served chatbot garbage that may or may not even be accurate.
Every wage ought to be a livable wage.
My letter to reps: Please hear me clearly on this, the republican leader of the pennsylvania house is a dipshit. Every wage should be a livable wage. That ahole’s 16 year old son also deserves to be able to save up for college or a car or whatever else, because heaven knows if he didn’t […]
There’s no reason to assume we’ll need these monstrosity data center power plants in the future.
Myth is all the tycoons have, because reality doesn’t care about tech monarchist fantasies.
The federal government is essentially embracing eugenics programming.
My letter to the editor, and to elected reps who are supposed to be overseeing healthcare and science, but Republicans seem to be embracing a new Dark Ages instead.
Pulling back the curtain on fake testimonials.
“More Google Review Extortion” because this channel has multiple examples of evidence of extortion operations using google reviews.
People in Texas in massive suffering caused by data centers.
“It’s disgusting. It’s cowardly. It’s disgusting. There’s a certain amount of cruelty…”
Pennsylvania American Water needs to just stop with the pathetic PR.
PA American Water keeps reminding me with their many commercials, now the ads on Youtube seem to be claiming that they Scranton from the EPA or some…
Attorney for a developer threatens end to democracy if the people of Covington Township don’t allow their property values to zero out.
WVIA reports that the company that will run the proposed data center in Lackawanna County has already had the developer sign a NDA (nondisclosure agreement).