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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 […]
Consolidation is not strength in numbers, diversity is strength in numbers.
If you consolidate everything, it’s in one big target that’s more vulnerable and less agile.
Corruption of the Coast Guard continues.
On the second day in office Trump fired the first female coast guard commandant, for what sure seemed because he didn’t want a woman in a position of leadership
Data Center hearing in the town of Archbald Pennsylvania drew a record number of constituents who were talked down to.
Multiple data centers proposed in Northeastern Pennsylvania are in or very near to Archbald Pennsylvania.
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.
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 […]
Hundreds turn out in small town meeting to oppose a data center; township politicians vote for it anyway.
Someone should be looking into what kind of financial interests these township supervisors have in the proposed 500 acres to be used for this planned ginormous data center power plant.
Pennsylvania AI boondoggle summit as full of BS and unwanted garbage as expected.
I listened to Trump at the Republican data center power plant “summit” in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and read about Josh Shapiro’s involvement so you don’t have to. (You can thank me later.)
I’m not comparing Donald Trump to Idi Amin, I’m comparing the opposition.
Zohran Mamdani’s family knows something about authoritarianism.
Good guys could easily take advantage of the fact Peter Thiel named his company after the bad guy weapon.
The Letterhack provides Democrats with some needed remedial tips.
Conservatives are being tricked.
If you were wondering why republican voters seem to persistently believe things are looking up.
AI is not inevitable.
More specifically the tech tycoon preferred implementation of AI is not inevitable.
Minnesota assassin’s background is in international private security work.
MPR NEWS Peter Cox and Tom Scheck June 14, 2025 3:14 PM Updated: June 14, 2025 3:29 PM Suspect in Hortman’s assassination visited international hotspots, has ties to private security firms According to Boelter’s LinkedIn page, he is listed as the CEO of Red Lion Group, which is based in Congo, and he’s listed as […]
Normalcy bias is a known problem.
And more and more people remark upon this as time goes on.
If you “agree with” any of MAHA you’re signing onto eugenics.
MAHA is a movement involving anti-vax eugenicist principles. Even if you can pick out one little part of it that sounds ok, do you really want to sign on to the stink of eugenics?
Romania’s Trumpian candidate lost the election.
Pro-EU Dan beats Trumpist Simion in Romania’s closely watched vote | DW News May 19, 2025 The pro-European Union mayor of Bucharest has won the Romanian presidential election. Nicusor Dan defeated a hard-right nationalist opponent who modeled his campaign on that of Donald Trump. Of course in keeping with being openly Trumpian, he’s refusing to […]
Do voters really want right-wing Dem representatives?
It’s troubling to regularly hear about people who talk to Dem politicians and Dem operatives who are seemingly completely out of step with the Dem base entirely.
By law all sorts of things aren’t supposed to happen.
“By law, Social Security cannot be touched in the budget reconciliation process.”