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BREAKING NEWS: The Utah State Legislature will conduct a study on the environmental impacts of data centers in response to the controversy in Box Elder County: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/utah-legislature-to-explore-data-centers-impacts #utpol #Utah

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that are fully breaking that contract. We should reciprocate.

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Tenant unions live or die by what can be said out loud: to neighbors, to reporters, to the public. In Chicago, a landlord tried to make that speech part of the price of settling eviction cases after a rent strike. The result is a story about housing court, legal threats and who gets to tell the truth about displacement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/landlord-chicago-tenants-silence-rent-strike

How we radicalize folks and build relationships for future organizing:

One of the approaches I'm taking to building a small collective in this small #rural #MO town is to do a variety of projects. I mentioned the mutual aid table last week. Yesterday we had our first meeting for a study group for "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. 8 folks showed up, 9 including me. Just about right for a study group though I would have liked a few more. We're taking it slow and only meeting once a month. I'm hoping at the end of it to have created some long-term relationships with at least a couple of the folks that showed up that I didn't already know.

This text is ideal for helping guide folks to an understanding that the state and #capitalism work together to keep the working class poor and under control. If we want to be free we have no choice but to organize the abolition of both. Anything else will be continued subjugation.

#Politics #AntiCapitalism #Anarchism #Organize

Are you still dependent on Google and Microsoft &co for collaborative workspaces? Stop! we have cooperative clouds that can help you on your way towards digital autonomy.

Here's LaSuite.coop, who brings an integrated suite of open source tooling to your workspace.

Here's our report about them:
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We recently did a Community Call with @LaSuiteCoop and are impressed by their tech, services, governance and economic model.

https://chuffed.org/project/176588-send-anarchist-labor-organizers-to-labor-notes-2026

RE: https://social.coop/@natematias/116606979531755936

"Expecting correctness from #GenAI is like expecting #perpetualmotion from a machine. Gen AI has no concept of correctness. And even if it did, GenAI favors plausible falsehoods over unlikely truths. And unlikely truths are the heart of scientific discovery. "

#AnnasArchive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order - https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/ meanwhile, #google has appropriated the Web and destroyed hyperlinks

Every front-facing explainer video looks like Wayne and Garth pretending to be cable news pundits. But not even funny.

Companies referring to people as “Lower value human capital”

Welcome to end stage capitalism

Add this term to others such as “economically inactive” & “useless eaters”

The disabled, homeless, elderly and children fall in these categories too

Worth must never be measured by productivity.

https://news.sky.com/story/standard-chartered-to-replace-lower-value-human-capital-with-ai-13545809

#fuckai #capitalism #patriarchy #ableism #eugenics #disability

Man throws giant rock at endangered seal, gets repeatedly punched in the head and arrested - https://boingboing.net/2026/05/18/man-throws-giant-rock-at-endangered-seal-gets-repeatedly-punched-in-the-head-and-arrested.html "When confronted, the man claimed he was rich and "could pay the fine,"

Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but #AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business - https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/solar-to-dominate-energy-in-2035-but-data-centers-will-keep-fossil-fuels-in-business/ another reason to hope for a serious market correction here

@david_chisnall @atax1a I definitely think that the people who are by far the happiest with slopcode are the ones who frequently have to produce code that doesn't differ from previous code in any significant way, only in superficial ways. Obviously those situations should be eliminated through proper abstraction and reuse but something something realities of enterprise serious business industrial work something..

Actually the original Copilot with its "spicy autocomplete" interface was a lot more explicitly targeting that kind of thing!.. narrow scope (!), almost like a fuzzy search for stackoverflow snippets that get regurgitated with slight tweaks as necessary.

@atax1a To add to that:

Unless someone is actively trying to mount a supply-chain attack, they are generally trying to make their code understandable. Comments and code both reflect what they are thinking. They may not quite reflect each other, but one allows you to build a mental model of intent that you can compare against the implementation.

In contrast, LLM-generated code is designed to be statistically probable. Each statement is the statement that is most likely to follow the previous one. Yet the reason for writing new code is that the requirements are different from all of the existing code in the world in some significant way. Reviewing statistically plausible code is very hard because it is code that is created specifically to look like the code you wanted. By coincidence, it sometimes is the code you wanted. But figuring that out requires working out exactly what code you wanted, at which point it’s less effort to just write it down than play a complex game of spot the difference.

Before you worry about #AI threats, fix your security fundamentals: Most cyber breaches aren’t driven by advanced AI - they’re caused by basic failures like exposed cloud storage and poor data governance. It’s time to refocus on #cybersecurity fundamentals.

https://katecarruthers.com/ai-threats-fix-your-security-fundamentals/

the arxiv controversy is interesting because people are enthusiastically describing research & writing practices that i would've thought you'd have to drag out of them. like they don't read the papers they cite, don't want responsibility for entire sections of papers with their names on them, etc...

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