((counterapparatus))

lets put our lives in common// face challenges together// steadily accumulate small realities// reassemble livable worlds from the ruins of this one 🏴🌱

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

We'll see if i ever use it, but I've just created an account on the fediverse (what a horrendous name): @[email protected]

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

Chatted with folks about Data Centers and Fossil Fuels, give it a listen to hear what I’ve been up to lately :-)

[Woodbine @woodbinenyc]

For this week's episode @CandiceBernd and John Kendall join Matt and Sam to talk about the nexus of the fossil fuel industry and the build-out boom of data centers across Texas and Pennsylvania. @walmas @arne__ness https://t.co/wIDNzjNoVI

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

Thirty years ago, “The Californian Ideology” was published, critiquing the dotcom neoliberalism of the 90s. Now that the tech industry has headed to Texas, @fturner updates the thesis for a new age.
https://t.co/6PsqS1baZd

[arne ness @arne__ness]

https://t.co/sxkFEQQC63
imo really agenda-setting work on the nexus between AI data center development and the US natural gas industry. very clearheaded

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

@jccfergie Though my lawyers told me to take a smaller settlement and told me that it was "in the movements' interests"

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

@jccfergie Truly wild how many people were part of that kettle. If American is overthrown, we will probably be able to write a history about the shadow party of Mott Haven.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

FARMS FEED US - DATA CENTERS BLEED US - Shalersville, Oh Protest 5/29/26

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

It’s so funny hearing bigoted Anglos talk knowingly about corruption in Mexico. Like you can’t buy off the entire Texas government for a few hundred thousand dollars

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

A fleet of Waymos and Zoox circle my Austin neighborhood like sharks, constantly filming everything with myriads of spinning cameras. Have no doubt that the video data captured by Google and Amazon in this way will feed directly or indirectly into the US surveillance state.

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

In 2025 alone, Taiwanese tech firms invested more than $5.3b in Texas. Why are they spending so much? The answer lies south of the border, where land is abundant, labor is cheap, and goods need only travel a few miles to reach their markets.
https://t.co/e33fPYJwSX

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

It's nearly impossible to drive anywhere in Texas without a so-called automated license plate reader (ALPR) snapping a photo of you and your car.

Over the last decade, police have been able to adopt ALPRs using an obscure state grant program.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

It’s hard not to see the data center boom as the fulfillment of a civilizational death wish. I don’t think that’s how civilizations work, but you could hardly invent a worse technology for the era of climate collapse

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

Crucial to note that these are tiny in comparison to a lot of the hyperscale facilities they are trying to build. Several in the Austin hinterlands are between one and four gigawatts, Utah will be up to 9 if they manage to complete it.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Crazy https://t.co/NYtsc9a0i4

[((counterapparatus)) @walmas]

@jaeporeon :-0 missed that! I think I can honestly say I’ve never kept track of the republican primary for ag commissioner. Was at a 300 person data center town hall Tucker spoke at and he electrified the crowd && really knew his stuff

[𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙚🏴 @g_abe2]

~200 land defenders took action yesterday, blockading highway 180 in AZ and stopping a uranium truck headed to the pinyon plain mine.

the land defenders vandalized the truck & piled rocks & debris underneath it, disabling it completely. authorities were forced to tow it away.

[molly taft @mollytaft]

if you want to read my original reporting about this, it's here :) https://t.co/aGCbnWT3On

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸🇲🇽 NEW: A Drop Site investigation by José Olivares reveals that multiple U.S. agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, Homeland Security Investigations, and CBP, are set to operate from a massive surveillance tower in Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, despite a growing scandal over unauthorized CIA activity in Chihuahua.

The report comes after two CIA agents died during a counter-narcotics operation in northern Mexico that President Claudia Sheinbaum said violated Mexican law because the federal government never approved the CIA’s involvement.

The new “Centinela Tower,” in the Mexican border city directly across from El Paso, will serve as a major intelligence-sharing hub for cross-border surveillance, migrant enforcement, cartel investigations, drones, facial recognition systems, and coordinated operations with Texas authorities and U.S. agencies

More details below ⬇️

[arne ness @arne__ness]

it's bc munis incorporated around them, blocked their ability to annex land, and siphoned off their tax bases into rich enclaves. one of the legacies of white flight. columbus OH is a famous counterexample - used muni utilities to force annexation and now almost has 1 million pop

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

Coal cost more than other forms of energy at the onset of the industrial revolution, but capitalists chose coal because it allowed them to better discipline labor