Algorithmically Inconvenient

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[Activate Virginia @ActivateVA]

"A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars..."

https://t.co/pBjamref4I

[Ⓐ Bezbyle ✳️ @klanwatch39682]

Also Basically 0 News About Riot Cops Crushing A Pride Event.

[팬텀크로/fevercell @PT_CROW]

Let me summarize it simply

Data inbreeding is occurring

[Lynlee Thorne @LynleeGThorne]

The talking points from this Governor are directly from the tech oligarchs and energy monopolies punching down at people & trying to make us believe that our emails & phone use are at fault for the surge in data centers. No. They are for AI.

https://t.co/NmXT40zzef

[cameron @IngmarBagman]

Gay ppl be like do you wanna come hang out with an immigration lawyer and a pornstar

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

I am grateful to the General Assembly leaders who have been working in good faith to pass a budget that invests in Virginia.
 
Throughout this process, I have been engaged with legislative partners. I have made my priorities clear — including raises for teachers and other public employees, funding to address rising Medicaid costs and the impacts of the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ and working to make Virginia more affordable, including by investing in housing and childcare programs.
 
I have also been clear that data centers in Virginia need to pay their fair share for energy consumption. I have brought proposals to the table that would make data centers pay more for the energy they use and address environmental concerns, including their air pollution, water and energy use, and noise.
 
I am confident that General Assembly leadership will get a bill on my desk that I can sign on time. Because there is no other option — those responsible for funding our government have an obligation to deliver.

[Bathhouse Agitator @gusselsprouts]

Chris Chitty’s “Sexual Hegemony” takes us back further into the 17th and 18th centuries. As the subtitle implies, locates a genesis/nexus in the rise of the world system. I slept on this book until a few years ago, and I regret waiting so long. This is a book with important tasks

[Jay C. Ford @jaycford]

Virginians are being asked to take short showers & not water their plants or wash their cars.

Guess who isn’t cutting their water use? Data centers.

As #valeg members pick up budget negotiations please include water & energy standards for Data Centers

https://t.co/QcGYI89hhb

[Activate Virginia @ActivateVA]

Vindman, Walkinshaw, McClellan, Scott.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[Vitalist International @VitalistInt]

albanians fighting against privatization, corruption, and neoliberalism. not on the timeline for some reason.

[DannyAraya @DannyAraya]

The eradication of the home PC in favor of turning all computing into a subscription service needs to be the line. That can't be allowed.

[Pop Detective @PopDetective]

“AI is not going anywhere” is a PR line from a gen AI company press release that’s trying to make their bad broken technology seem inevitable. It’s bullshit. Please stop repeating it.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

The Trump admin was planning to force out nearly 3 million immigrants - incl. citizens & Green Card holders - by falsely declaring them dead, but this whistleblower refused to do it. You can imagine they would have cast the net wider if this worked out for them.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. https://t.co/Cptx3aWppI

[booberry @BooBerry_crunch]

The fetishization of the goth aesthetic with absolutely no effort or energy put into the actual art or politics involved is part of the conservative pipeline and in this essay I will-

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

Stavvy did more damage to this dude in 2 minutes than gingivitus ever did

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Guy embrace every article of faith on the new right from hating women to blaming minorities and immigrants for literally everything, just like JD Vance and Stephen Miller do. It destroyed his life. His wife is leaving him and getting custody of the kids. In the comments are right wingers cheering him on for being “based.” It is a social suicide cult in which freaks root for you to self-immolate.

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

just answered a spam call that began witn an AI generation of my own voice talking to the AI spammer. not sure what the angle was but that was deeply unsettling