Robin Bergman

artist/designer/craftsperson; when not designing/knitting/beading/reading/ cooking, is busy worrying about the state of things, trying to do something about it!

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Why indeed? The money could be spent on the school or the students or money could be saved putting less stress on the EJ communities that will pay the most like Chelsea for example.

[Save NEMT Forest @nemtforest]

Why is MSBA spending taxpayer money on clear cutting trees and blasting forest habitats for schools that have extensive fields to build on, like Northeast Metro Tech in Wakefield? @Mass_SBA @MassTreasury @MassGovernor @SenJasonLewis #WheresJasonLewis
https://t.co/b2xtIkW3jS

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints

In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints

For this who don’t remember

Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods

That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe

So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers

Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it

The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints

Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after

Common Resident Complaints Being Logged

- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns

[Corbin Trent @corbintrent]

Last year we spent 5.6 trillion on healthcare. 2026 is projected to be 5.6 trillion. We’re looking at 60-70 trillion over a decade 30 trillion would be a massive savings. We can do even better though.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Help @stopprivatejets urge MA Legislators to Oppose $30 Million in tax credits for "Sustainable" Aviation Fuels (SAFs) will not actually reduce aviation emissions! Write your own letter here: https://t.co/T8QfkHsrHw

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

MA Peeps! I just wrote to my State Senator @theactionnet letter: Support Critical Amendments to Environmental Bond Bill. Write one here: https://t.co/l11JtzgJPC

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Utility Companies Want Your Data. Write one here: https://t.co/XgqVz5MKcR

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love 
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice; 
In the end, gorgeously, 
Endures our enormity. 

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Tonight was a very bad night.

[Ban Plastic Turf @BanPlasticTurf]

San Francisco commission votes unanimously on recommendations to the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and the City Administrator outlining concerns about artificial turf. 🤩

Check out that sign!!

https://t.co/BWEv5tgG0n

#KeepCrockerReal
#KeepItReal

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

Haitian TPS holders are deeply rooted in Massachusetts—they are our friends, our family members, our neighbors, and our colleagues. I filed an amicus brief with @congresswomanSC and 89 of our colleagues in defense of TPS for Haiti.

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Newsletter: https://t.co/ALbRsrsQIT]

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Aviation regulators have been making it harder to track celebrities’ private jets. Now, Trump’s immigration enforcers are taking advantage. https://t.co/zTTC4JSeC7

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Accused of price gouging renters, RealPage could now get a legal shield from GOP lawmakers — after a lobbying surge and a flood of campaign cash. https://t.co/u0LS3vZJnS

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Accused of price gouging renters, RealPage could now get a legal shield from GOP lawmakers — after a lobbying surge and a flood of campaign cash. https://t.co/u0LS3vZJnS

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Have you written your members of Congress yet? We're asking them to sign onto House Resolution 70 and Senate Resolution 147. Send a message! #USMailNotForSale #HandsOff https://t.co/b5dyRS379i

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

I just signed a @commoncause petition: Tell the Senate: REJECT the anti-voter SAVE Act. Sign here: https://t.co/ZxvV7QYfYp

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

I just signed a @commoncause petition: Tell Congress: Protect the Department of Education. Sign here: https://t.co/csTR0xrmzG

[CaseStudyQB @CaseStudyQB]

Baldwin & Co. - 3/14/2025 - @TaNehisiCoats reflects on Democratic accomplishments since the 90s and their current disaster

"What I would hate is for this party to not do any sort of internal reckoning and just put out the next version of this. I can't hear in 2028, this is the most important election of our lifetime. Please don't tell me that again!"

[Robin Bergman @robinorig]

Private equity firms are diverting billions from a Great Depression-era mortgage program — and making huge profits.

https://t.co/ZNAOqeXJyW

[Jeremy Boissinot @JeremyBssnt]

The numbers started speaking for themselves:

Podcast appearances got 10x more engagement than TV interviews.

YouTube clips went viral organically.

Creator collaborations reached audiences that traditional media couldn't touch.

But the real genius? What came next...