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For the full scope of timely analysis from IPS public scholars now and in months to come, follow us at https://t.co/E6qd4EYXu3.

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NEW: Residents of a small Pennsylvania town are being offered $10,000 each to accept a new Amazon Web Services data center in their community.

They're rejecting it anyway.

"Our property values are going to drop. Dramatically. If that’s not a bribe, I don’t know what is.”

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Private jets are costing us all. Tax them.
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Luxury private jets add to airspace congestion, delays, pilot shortages that contribute to cancellations and rising costs, and stress on the air traffic system.

The "enshittification" of the commercial aviation experience is in part caused by luxury private jets. Enough.

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The global economy already runs on care. Here's how our policies and our understanding of whose work has value can finally catch up. @aijenpoo in @inequalityorg: https://t.co/DpkKFXyWBA

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NEW: Domestic work makes all other work possible.

The more we protect and invest in these critical workers, the more it will strengthen economies worldwide.

End the precarity for domestic workers.

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If poor and low-income Americans voted at the same rate as higher-income citizens, they could sway elections in every single state(!).

Low-income Americans must unleash this power — and politicians must give them a powerful, tangible enough vision to draw them to the polls.

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In Lochbuie, Colorado, where water is already in short supply, mayor Jamie Jeffrey banded together with the residents of her town to enact a moratorium on AI data centers.

Now, she is sharing her experience and encouraging other towns to do the same. https://t.co/ZhPLohrNtp

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If democracy means only voting every 2-4 years, it becomes something distant and theoretical.

But if you give people tangible ways to improve their community with their neighbors, it can make democracy feel like something worth saving.

Bring back local, year-round democracy.

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NEW: Private equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has pillaged health care and the life sciences. Now, he’s trying to expand an ecologically disastrous private-jet airport.

Time to expose this oligarch. IPS scholar @Chuck99to1 in @thenation: https://t.co/RypeISNDoe

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Trillion-dollar corporations will blow money on anything except the workers that keep them operational.

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A document unveiled in a court case appears to show Amazon using AI to track workers and rank how likely they are to form unions.

The document has been released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor.

It shows Amazon using an AI tool dubbed "Atlas" to give warehouses a risk score of between 100 and 900 for union activity, with a lower score meaning it believes workers are more likely to unionize. A higher score is “better” for leaders at the company, the document says.

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The U.S. is home to just 4% of the world's population but nearly 69% of the world's registered private jets.

Private jet operations and greenhouse gas emissions in Florida and Texas alone are greater than the 27 member countries of the European Union combined.

Tax private jets.

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With the rise of paid content creators and more people turning to social media for news, journalism is experiencing a crisis at a time when we need it most.

If we want to save our democracy, that must include investment in journalism.

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Between higher utility bills, lower tax revenue, and more pollution, data centers are rarely a net positive for locals.

Instead of earning trust with transparency, Big Tech is trying to ram these projects through with as much secrecy as possible -- and people aren't having it!

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Zeldin has also unilaterally declared making the U.S. “the artificial intelligence capital of the world” one of the EPA’s five central priorities. @JimHightower: https://t.co/Gx68Yt1S8F

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NEW: Trump’s EPA head, Lee Zeldin, is decreeing that there’s no need for local communities to be consulted or even notified of new polluting AI data centers.

People are fighting data centers.
The government is fighting people.

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The news of publishing giant McClatchy’s plan to institute massive cuts to reporting staff across its 30 newspaper empire should serve as a warning of the danger AI poses to journalism—especially on the local level.

@millsrodrigo on Tech Policy Press:https://t.co/jIr4JoSJA0

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🎙️ EVENT: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, neo-colonial leadership has forfeited the future. This #CongoWeek, hear how Congolese youths are organizing to win that future back.

📍 IPS office & online
📅 Fri, Oct 23
🕑 12 pm ET / 5 pm WAT

Register: https://t.co/ugQAociK39