Erik T #RunForOffice if you can #ToriesOwnBrexit

@alsotigger.bsky.social Eclectic Progressive. Teach Critical Thinking. Most voters NOT on social media. #ProportionalRepresentation #Project2025IsTrumpVance

[Erik T #RunForOffice if you can #ToriesOwnBrexit @AlsoTigger]

Reform in power show they don’t care. More extreme than Cons Party - sell everything off,inflate “expenses”,siphon taxes,cut protections
No plans to make lives better,so distract.Demonise minorities,stir hate & division
Vote against Reform,preferably Green https://t.co/zVwuiERlir

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

One document in the Epstein files is titled child sex trafficking co-conspirators. The DOJ released it fully redacted. In February, Rep. Thomas Massie read one of the blacked-out names into the record himself. Les Wexner.

[Niz @NizMhani]

This opens up a can of worms @NHSEngland

🔴Will poppies be banned?
🔴Will LGBTQ/Pride emblems be banned?
🔴Is a Palestinian flag with no text considered "political"?
🔴Why is a Palestinian flag considered to "anti Jewish hatred"? Is that idea not racist towards Palestinians?
🔴Will all flags, including Union Jack and St Georges Cross, be banned?
🔴Will Ukraine badges be banned?
🔴Will the Star of David be banned?
🔴Where is the line that constitutes what is "political" and what is not? Is a Keffiyah a political symbol?
🔴Can badges be worn on clothing on the way to and from work?
🔴If a Jewish person decides to wear a Palestine badge, is that Jewish person exhibiting "anti Jewish hatred"?

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Palestine Action Defendants Apply to Remove ‘Biased’ Judge

Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson is also the subject of a formal complaint filed by Defend Our Juries to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office today, alleging biased and discriminatory conduct.

https://t.co/vys6zIbWIJ

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Just Treatment 💊 @JustTreatment]

#Palantir in the #NHS: how many more warnings, scandals and leaks will it take for their contract to be cancelled? ❌

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

The French hate air conditioning.

So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold.

It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem.

Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes.

The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again.

It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back.

The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers.

The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though.

It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold.

A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe.

The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground.

The boring part is the breakthrough.

Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms.

That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building.

Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions.

The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists.

Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible.

The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes.

This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

OpenAI's president just got CAUGHT running a fake AI safety movement to destroy the real one.

They were literally playing BOTH SIDES of the AI safety debate to manufacture outrage.

Taylor Lorenz and Tyler Johnston just exposed this in their investigation, and it's absolutely ugly:

In July 2025, exactly 10 days after a dark money offshoot of pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future filed its articles of incorporation in Nevada, a new X account called "Doomers Are Dumb" appeared. It looked like a generic meme page, posting jokes about waifus and dating drama.

Then in October, around the moment the PAC began publicly campaigning, the account pivoted to lewd and offensive content designed to mock AI safety advocates.

Then on the same day, a SEPARATE account called "Jonathan Doomer" appeared on X, claiming to be a panicked AI skeptic who had quit his job to spread warnings about the technology. He was the perfect strawman, loud and unstable and easy to dunk on, and the "Doomers Are Dumb" account was sparring with him from day one.

The PAC was running BOTH sides of the debate. They built the fake skeptic so they could make every real skeptic look unhinged by association.

The funders behind this network are not random:

OpenAI president Greg Brockman gave $25 million to Leading the Future, and another $25 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. Andreessen Horowitz, Joe Lonsdale of Palantir, Ron Conway, and Perplexity all wrote huge checks. Total commitments are around $140 million, with about $51 million still on the way.

The political operative running it all is Josh Vlasto, the same strategist who ran crypto's $300 million Fairshake PAC that helped flip the 2024 election. Their target is the 38 state-level AI safety laws legislatures passed in 2025.

Their first big victim is Alex Bores, the congressional candidate in New York's 12th district. Bores worked at Palantir until 2019, when he RESIGNED over the company's ICE contracts.

He then went on to write New York's first state-level AI safety law.

The PAC has committed at least $10 million to defeat him, and their ads attack him for "building the tech for ICE deportations" - the work he quit over.

But the nastiest part is what OpenAI did yesterday...

The company put out a statement distancing itself:

Their employees are "free to participate in the political process in their personal capacities."
In other words: It's not us, it's just our president and the executive organizing it.

Then Jason Kwon, OpenAI's Chief Strategy Officer, was caught FOLLOWING the sockpuppet accounts on X. These are accounts with almost no followers. You don't accidentally find them. You only follow them if you already know they exist.

Chris Lehane, OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer, was part of the founding conversations of the PAC according to the Wall Street Journal. The company that just filed for an $852 BILLION IPO is publicly testifying to Congress that it "supports thoughtful AI regulation" while its own executives are simultaneously funding a $140 million operation designed to destroy every politician who actually tries to regulate AI.

This is the second scandal for the PAC this year. In May, the same operation got caught paying TikTok and Instagram creators $5,000 per post to spread anti-China AI panic content scripted by political operatives.

This is what the AI billionaire class is actually doing while their PR teams put Sam Altman on every podcast talking about wanting regulation.

The strategy is to fund fake critics so real critics look insane, pay creators to manufacture moral panics on demand, and control every angle of the conversation so no real conversation about AI safety ever happens.

What do you think?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters.

Concerns about negative environmental effects, public health, increasing utility prices, proximity to homes.

Data centres don't generate many jobs.

Will Britons follow suit?
https://t.co/oMV7dZfVhk

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An Ohio fire department is warning that AI data centers are quickly becoming a full-time job for first responders.

In Jerome Township, northwest of Columbus, emergency crews have been called to two Amazon data centers a staggering 84 times in just four years. Since the first facility opened in 2021, firefighters have responded to dozens of incidents, averaging about two calls per month.

Then came the major fire.

In April, a two-alarm blaze at one of the sites caused more than $50 million in damage and tied up emergency crews for over 24 hours.

Local officials aren’t just worried about the fires themselves. They’re concerned that precious emergency resources are being repeatedly diverted to these massive industrial complexes, all at taxpayer expense.

Data centers are sprouting up across America as tech companies scramble to build the massive infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence. These facilities house thousands of servers that run nonstop, consuming vast amounts of electricity and generating intense heat that requires constant cooling.

While data center fires remain relatively rare, they can be exceptionally challenging to fight. The buildings are packed with electrical systems, battery backups, complex cooling infrastructure, and high-security zones that often hinder emergency access.

Ohio has emerged as one of the nation’s fastest-growing data center hubs, with more than 170 facilities already operating and many more under construction or in planning.

This growth mirrors a global explosion in hyperscale data centers, driven by the skyrocketing demand for AI computing power. Every response, AI image, or large language model ultimately relies on physical servers somewhere in the world.

While these facilities bring jobs and economic investment, many communities are feeling the strain, on power grids, water supplies, roads, and now, local emergency services.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I hope on behalf of those two officers legal action will be taken, otherwise it's the wild west."

@LordBlunkett calls for legal action against Elon Musk, after he linked the wrong police officer - who has now gone into hiding - to Henry Nowak's arrest.

@maitlis | @jonsopel

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Nearly 60 percent of retired senior British military officers now working in the defence industry are quoted in the media as expert commentators without any disclosure of their commercial ties, new research finds. https://t.co/Ye28cPk0JX

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Ofcom claims there is no consensus to ban Nigel Farage from Presenting on GB News.

Lets show them one.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MADELEINE DEAN: How many people were killed simply trying to access food sites in Gaza?

RUBIO: Well, since Hamas killed them, you should ask what their role was

DEAN: IDF soldiers shot some of them. Propaganda ain't gonna work with me

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

New figures show Reform raked in £9m in 3 months, with Farage still in the hotseat for his £5m "gift" from billionaire Chris Harborne.

£4m came from billionaire Ben Delo, who was convicted for facilitating money laundering in the US, but pardoned by Trump.

https://t.co/6tXHKCqMjm

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New mass surveillance system introduced in America

“If you thought flock cameras are bad, law enforcement now has a system that identifies you based on the signals coming off of every single device you have”

“It collects your Bluetooth, your Wi-Fi, your RFID signals from your phone, your smartwatch, your headphones, your car, your car's radio, absolutely everything. Then it builds what they call an electronic fingerprint, and their website gives an example of this.

So picture 70 cars drive by one of these systems. Every car has an iPhone, but not every car has the same iPhone model, same smartwatch that's on you, same headphones, same everything else. So they build a profile based on you, not just your car's license plate anymore. So that combination is unique to you.

They don't just need your license plate anymore. They don't even need a picture of your face. They just need the signals that your devices are already broadcasting. Can work in malls, subways, any public place, pretty much anywhere this can work. And then all of that information is gonna get stored on a server where it could be searched for later.”

This isn't some random theory, it's real and I researched the details

It’s called SignalTrace, its commercially available law enforcement tool. It extends beyond traditional Automatic License Plate Recognition by capturing publicly broadcast radio signals from everyday devices

Signals Captured: Bluetooth from phones, watches, headphones, car systems, Wi-Fi, RFID like tags, key fobs, luggage and other local device emissions

It creates a Electronic Fingerprint unique profile by correlating multiple device signals that travel together with a vehicle and person. This includes your specific iPhone model + smartwatch + car infotainment + headphones

This is a massive mass surveillance tool

tracking profiles without needing faces, plates, or warrants in many cases. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

It builds persistent tracking profiles without needing faces, plates or warrants. Networks of these sensors could map movements across cities

We have to stop this type of technology for being normalized. This is unlawful surveillance without a warrant

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Yes I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year over four years. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.

If you’re outraged about that, where is all your outrage now?

Kushner's Affinity Partners holds roughly $5 to $6 billion. Close to 99% of it comes from foreign sovereign wealth funds. Saudi Arabia. The UAE. Qatar. Over $90M in fees annually.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

RUBIO: “I’ve never seen Trump fall asleep.”

@RepTedLieu: “You just lied to Congress. Here’s a video of him sleeping while you were talking.”