Tay Green

millennial elder with pretty good hair

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[Tay Green @tigrenus]

@CNN @Meta We haven't handed over the keys yet. But we're close.
Full piece on economic monoculture, creative collapse, infrastructure strain, and where we still have leverage:

https://t.co/sQJ3fgHszw

Resilience beats efficiency.

[6/6]

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. They can inspire independent thought and even rebellion.”

— Carl Sagan

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.”

— Aldous Huxley

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

CNN's click through rate on Google dropped 30% last year.

Other news orgs are reporting similar patterns.

Washington Post got gutted because of a billionaire's whim.

Journalism is a public good and just be funded and defended.

https://t.co/luQLWtdzjr

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

$64 billion in AI #DataCenter projects have been blocked since 2024.

Most cancellations: red states, Trump counties.

People power still works.

New piece on where democratic pressure can still shape AI's future:

https://t.co/sQJ3fgHszw

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

@CNN @Meta We haven't handed over the keys yet. But we're close.
Full piece on economic monoculture, creative collapse, infrastructure strain, and where we still have leverage:

https://t.co/sQJ3fgHszw

Resilience beats efficiency.

[6/6]

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

I'm a techno-optimist who loves AI. I use it daily.
But we're reorganizing our entire economy around a handful of companies before understanding the consequences.

The risks aren't sci-fi. They're already here.

#AI #ClimateChange #DataCenters #Technology

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[Tay Green @tigrenus]

Four structural failures unfolding right now:

1. Economic monoculture (#Mag7 = 55% of S&P gains)
2. Creative collapse (@CNN traffic -30% after AI Overviews)
3. Cognitive atrophy (@Meta killed fact-checking)
4. Infrastructure strain (43x energy costs for reasoning models)

[2/6]

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

@CNN @Meta BUT:

Communities have blocked $64 BILLION in data center projects since 2024.
Most cancellations were in red states. Counties that voted for Trump by 20+ points.
It's bipartisan. And it's working.

[5/6]

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

@CNN @Meta College graduate unemployment is rising FASTER than unemployment among people without degrees.
For the first time ever.
That's not what a healthy economy looks like.

[4/6]

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

@CNN @Meta The climate math is brutal:

Even with optimistic projections, AI data centers will offset EVERY electric vehicle sold on the planet.
U.S. emissions could rise 56% by 2035.
Your electricity bills are already going up to subsidize this bet.

[3/6]

[Run for Office @RFONB]

It's been awhile since we've posted here, but we're excited to be back with a big announcement. Run for Office is kicking off 2026 with a major expansion: Community nominations.

Know an everyday leader you wish would run? Nominate them today! https://t.co/Xopl0dHg3u

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

— Frank Herbert, Dune

[NationBuilder @NationBuilder]

When the news is incessant, it's easy to believe change is impossible. The people in our 2025 Year in Review prove it's not. They are defying the odds: taking on corporations, restoring literacy, making politics accessible & beyond. Explore their stories: https://t.co/EoGZM35NQZ

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

There's a movie called Hamnet coming out and it's not about pigs acting out Hamlet on the internet?

Missed opp

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

The case for maintenance, by me

https://t.co/2SDY9M2AJR

#idd #USPolitics #substack

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

https://t.co/nSTZANjW1s

[Tay Green @tigrenus]

Powerful work from NationBuilder in 2024. It was a pivotal year for democracy worldwide, and 2025 is shaping up to be equally so.

So proud of the work, and pumped to deliver even more tools to more changemakers this year.

The antidote to apathy is empathetic action.

[NationBuilder @NationBuilder]

So much has already happened in these first few weeks of 2025. As we try to navigate allll of it, we're looking to last year for wisdom in the incredible stories of resilience, ferocity, and creativity shared in our 2024 Year in Review.

https://t.co/bFNixlETIE

#BuildTheFuture