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Iron County commissioners have approved new regulations overseeing data centers, months after the board was the first in the state to pass a temporary moratorium on the controversial projects.

‘Advanced technological tools give murder an air of scientific legitimacy. They allow the Israeli army to claim that it goes to great lengths to distinguish between combatants and civilians and to reduce the number of civilians killed.’ Eyal Weizman on 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"We are losing biodiversity at a rate unparalleled in human history." Global wildlife populations have sunk over 60% since 1970. We are destroying ourselves and taking nature with us. Time to protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #nature

We just added James Fleming’s “Excuse Us, While We Fix the Weather” to our 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 archive–now with a new foreword! Originally published in 𝘙𝘊𝘊 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, the piece highlights the male-dominated culture surrounding proposals for weather and climate interventions: springs-rcc.org/excuse-us-wh...

"Psychological civil engineering" has been the goal for almost a hundred years

NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty. jonathancook.substack.com/p/naza-is-no...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Thank you, Oxford. On 20 October, IF Oxford presented a one-off screening of Ghost in the Machine at the Ultimate Picture Palace, followed by a Q&A with director Valerie Veatch and cast member Ana Valdivia check notaidoc.com for the upcoming screening events or host one at your school/uni and club

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

This is tomorrow! Join us! Tickets: uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...

Oxford, tomorrow! IF Oxford presents Ghost in the Machine at the Ultimate Picture Palace, Tue 20 Oct, 6pm, followed by an in-person Q&A with director Valerie Veatch and Dr Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute). 🎟 uppcinema.com/show/if-oxford-ghost-in-the-machine

Fund training colleges for heat source engineers, solar engineers, wind farm development. Built a green economy. Reduce dependency on oil. Energy sovereignty. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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NEW PROJECT LAUNCH! 🚀 DAIR's @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social are building a network to strengthen data-worker-led movements around the world. The website launches in mid-November. Sign up at dataworkersunited.org for updates!

We are honoured that the incomparable N. Katherine Hayles will give our inaugural lecture on 'Inverse awareness and LLM-generated fictions'. Join us on 12 October 2026, sign up here. Kate Hayles' work has been endlessly inspiring to the LCAL team. leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/event/invers...

fascinating deep dive (😎) into the system of subsea cables and oil pipeline infrastructure, with its history and connotations. Part of the @globalvoices.org Big Tech and Authoritarianism Spotlight! globalvoices.org/2026/10/09/s...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ORG has carried out a 6-month investigation into AI use in the UK asylum system. We've found high error rates and claimants unaware that AI is being used. This could have catastrophic consequences for people whose future is in the hands of Home Office decision-making. Read more ⬇️

Asylum claimants continue not to be told when AI is used to summarise their case and country information. This is despite our legal opinion from March concluding that this lack of transparency would mean that the use of AI in asylum decision-making is likely to be unlawful. Find out more ⬇️

Why do green parties struggle electorally despite widespread support for climate action? My new (first 😱) paper explores why green parties remain uniquely challenged in economic crisis & that the mechanism is not only about sociotropic concerns, but also voters’ pocketbooks 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Microplastics have been found in human placentas, Antarctica and clouds. The planetary boundary we've smashed through the hardest - novel entities. Plastics, pills and pesticides, we've been poisoning the planet and ourselves with a cocktail of synthetic chemicals for decades.

I'm very grateful to @aliciastoller.bsky.social for her guest essay this week on reclaiming education. "Love for the world as it is, and as it could be. Our schools, all of our schools, must reclaim and redeem this humane possibility." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop www.404media.co/arxiv-is-rat...

You have an opportunity to watch "Ghost in the Machine" in Oxford (UK). Tuesday 20 October, 2026 at 6pm. uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...

Vol. 3, no. 2 of CO2 Newsletter, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials & deeply-researched articles. “Accelerating sea level rise is attributed to climate change” allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9

Latest announcement from Tory shadow chancellor strongly suggests a party stuck in an idealogical rut, unable to learn 1. Scrapping regulations on low carbon home building - was done in 2015 by Tory govt, ended up costing UK many ££ billions in fuel & retrofit www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ghost in the Machine, Valerie Veatch's documentary on the history of AI, comes to Oxford's Ultimate Picture Palace on 22 October. The OII's Dr @anavaldi.bsky.social, who features in the film, joins Valerie for a Q&A after the screening. Screening 6pm, Q&A 8:30pm. uppcinema.com/show/if-oxfo...

Kicking off the @globalvoices.org October Spotlight on Big Tech and Authoritarianism with this insightful reporting about how the extractive, neo-colonial aspects of data centers, cloud computing, and "AI" play out through China's new computing hubs in Xinjiang. globalvoices.org/2026/10/01/w...

Update: My article "Tech oligarchy meets developmental state" is now officially assigned to Vol. 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture: Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1 (pp. 398-413)! Grab free full-text access via my ePrint link (first 50 downloads): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GD9NQ... #STS #TechPolicy

Dr Valdivia highlights that alternatives such as chip-level cooling and renewable energy remain at an early stage, while many governments still lack specific legal frameworks to regulate the industry. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

As AI fuels a rapid global expansion of data centres, the OII's Dr Ana Valdivia published commentary in Cell Reports Sustainability to discuss how data centres can be built and operated sustainably across environmental, technological & social dimensions. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Exacto. www.elconfidencial.com/inmobiliario...

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

There is also worrisome evidence that Effective Altruism's pivot from a core focus on "distributing bed nets to help poor people survive malaria" to a core focus on "funding think-tanks dedicated to worrying about if AI will kill us all" might have been a planned bait-and-switch from the start:

Looking forward to this book! 📖

I couldn’t agree more. I reviewed the problem of climate hushing in TT#12 www.transitiontimes.net/tt-12-a-fail... but noted research showing that while climate change is not a *top* issue for voters, climate action is actually a *winning* issue for those brave enough to stand up and fight for it 2/

What a great diagram

'Instead of asking business leaders what society needs going forwards, political leaders should be doing a better job of stress-testing their claims and making sure that their businesses and products contribute to society-wide success.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, top Microsoft figures, including CEO Satya Nadella, admitted that their AI models are basically stealing content from media companies while providing virtually nothing in return, creating a “doom loop” that will swallow the web.”

Artist Cara Esten Hurtle was angry to learn that SFPD deployed drones to arrest people during Pride Weekend. So she flipped the lens, turning drones on a fixture of our increasingly surveilled world: Flock cameras. Read @rahawahaile.bsky.social's Q&A about Hurtle's latest photo project.

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Seis familias recuperan en Víznar los restos de sus seres queridos casi 90 años después diario.publico.es/6wr…