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Loving everything tech/digital to provide us with a safer world

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Sustained applause and a standing ovation for His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as he becomes the first Pope to address the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Trump is too emotional to be president

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:

“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has deleted a post using Andy Burnham's portrait after the artist launched legal action for using it to push "anti-immigration" messaging

Stanley Chow: "My work has been used without permission to share a message that I fundamentally disagree with"

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

P*ssed off father addresses township board over the cover up of an accident where his wife his son were hit by the son of a friend of the chief of police.

This father is demanding accountability at a North Huntingdon Township Board of Commissioners meeting, but the backstory behind this confrontation is a chilling look at a family's fight against small-town corruption.

​On July 7, 2024, Kathleen Morcheid was driving with her 13-month-old son, Jordan, when a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Nolan Patrick Mullen crossed the center line, striking them nearly head-on. Accident reconstruction experts later testified that Mullen was flying at 90 MPH in a 35 MPH zone just five seconds before the collision.

​While the toddler miraculously survived without major injuries, Kathleen suffered life-altering harm, including a severe traumatic brain injury and permanent physical tremors that stripped her of her career as a nurse.

​Nicholas Carrozza, the child’s father seen at the podium, quickly uncovered what he alleges is a deep-seated conflict of interest. Local critics and public complaints allege that Mullen’s father was close personal friends with high-ranking local police officials.

Carrozza claims responding officers failed to perform standard on-scene sobriety testing, ignored witnesses who saw the driver laughing after the crash, and systematically stonewalled his family's Right-to-Know requests for body camera footage and basic police reports.

​The systemic frustration peaked when the District Attorney’s office offered Mullen a lenient plea deal—dismissing the felony chargesin exchange for probation and home electronic monitoring.

Fortunately, a Westmoreland County judge took the unusual step of rejecting the plea deal, stating home monitoring was entirely inappropriate for an offense requiring prison time.

Carrozza fought back with constitutional law. He openly called out Township Manager Harry Fulk for attempting to bypass him, exposed threats of arrest from the DA for asking questions, and vowed to strip the board members of their qualified immunity via a federal civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

As of June 2026

​The fallout has turned into a massive First Amendment battle. Instead of transparent answers, local authorities hit Carrozza with a wave of criminal charges, ordering him to stand trial for misdemeanor counts of disrupting a public meeting, illegal recording in a police lobby, and endangering a public official after he posted an officer's photo online to criticize the department.

​Carrozza maintains that these charges are an unconstitutional overreach designed to criminalize citizen activism and silence a father demanding justice for his permanently injured wife and child. Meanwhile, the family home has fallen into foreclosure due to mounting medical debt.

As far as the driver.

Mullen's defense attorney requested a special pretrial hearing to challenge the state's evidence, specifically arguing that Morcheid's injuries did not legally meet the threshold of "serious bodily injury" and that the felony charge should be thrown out.

​Judge Stewart firmly rejected the defense's request to drop the felony charge. The judge noted that Morcheid's daily life remains entirely upended by her ongoing brain injury symptoms, headaches, speech issues, and physical tremors. The prosecution also successfully presented accident reconstruction data proving Mullen was driving 90 MPH in a 35 MPH zone just five seconds before the impact, which the court agreed was the absolute "definition of recklessness."

Because the defense's efforts to dismiss the charges failed, Judge Stewart ruled that the final determination of fault and the severity of the crash must be decided by a local jury. Mullen remains charged with felony aggravated assault by vehicle, misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and multiple traffic summaries as the case moves toward a formal criminal trial.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Jon Snow, the former Channel 4 News Lead Presenter, has opened up about his Alzheimer's diagnosis.

The 78-year-old speaks about the disease in an interview with the Daily Mail, and forthcoming documentary.

In Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, he travels to Zambia to investigate a chemical spill and pollution in the Kafue River.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I once DM’d someone who was constantly criticizing me online and asked why they hated me.

His response changed how I think about the internet.

Full conversation with Eugene and Brené Brown is up now.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gent in pink slams Reform UK's Robert Kenyon,

"As a community we want a normal person, a real person stepping in and taking charge to make sure that people of our constituency can get ahead in life the best they can"

"I would rather have a community made up of diversity, of women, of LGBT people, of young people, of people with disabilities"

"Than someone like yourself who is sexist"

"And has shown on more than one occassion an opposition to diversity"

"Just as your party Reform UK does"

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@TheEconomist From the UK to New York, the real fightback is against the multi-millionaires and billionaires who have stolen our wealth and power - and the media that protect them.

Zohran gets that.

And we do too:

https://t.co/Q27Jy5eX7z

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're all going to ask ourselves - what did we do to stop a genocide?

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Ireland didn’t qualify for the World Cup, but you know who did? The Ivory Coast.”

This Irish pub flipped its flag to support Ivory Coast at the World Cup.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk.

People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already.

A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.

Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “They need us feeling hopeless and blaming our neighbors, or blaming immigrants, or blaming trans kids, blaming some marginalized community for the fact that life got harder for working people. But it wasn’t immigrants, it wasn’t trans kids. It was billionaires.”

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Spot on from these pundits talking about the future fixture of Ireland v Israel and why it should not go ahead

Such a truthful conversation is unthinkable on British TV

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The cold hard facts regarding Brexit need to be repeated over and over again until the country rejoins the EU. Never let the liars who sold to the public get away with it.

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 ROLAND GARROS GOT UNCOMFORTABLE

Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova beat a Russian opponent at Roland Garros for the first time in her career, then said the quiet part out loud.

“Many Russian athletes actively participate in propaganda, play in Gazprom-linked tournaments, and openly support Putin,” she said after the match.

She also said the WTA pressured her for months over public comments about Russian players and the war, demanding she stop naming certain athletes and threatening fines or even disqualification.

So a Ukrainian player speaks about propaganda and aggression, and suddenly the problem is her tone.

That tells you plenty about the double standard.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed!

All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp