This is an occasional reminder that there is most of a century of wizard-school stories written by authors who are not horrible people.

From Le Guin's "Earthsea" through to Novik's "Scholomance Trilogy".

Mark Carney greenlights gas-powered AI data centres: an unholy marriage of climate-wrecking fossil fuels and society-destabilizing tech. This is completely irresponsible.

https://thewalrus.ca/after-intense-lobbying-carney-allows-gas-powered-data-centres-in-alberta/

#Canada #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoAI #Alberta

ICYMI, "Plans announced for nationwide general strike against Trump". May 1, 2026. Be there or be square.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-strike/

See also:
https://generalstrikeus.com/
(which is growing, but far too slowly)

#generalstrike #indivisible

The $58 billion in new debt in two months is the number that contextualizes everything else in this story. Oracle is not cutting because the business is struggling. It posted a 95% jump in net income last quarter. It is cutting because its CEO bet the entire company on being a hyperscale AI infrastructure provider and the debt service on that bet now requires eliminating 18% of the workforce to stay solvent. The 6 a.m. email with same-day access termination is the operational detail that will circulate widely, but the real story is a Fortune 50 company that accumulated more debt in 60 days than most governments carry and is now doing emergency headcount surgery to cover it. The banks quietly pulling back from financing is the most alarming signal in the whole piece because it means the institutions closest to Oracle’s balance sheet decided the risk was no longer acceptable before Oracle itself acknowledged a problem publicly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/InterstellarKinetics/comments/1s8no23/comment/odi003f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

the ai bubble bursting, the dollar collapsing, *chef's kiss*

<trump starts WW3>

the epstein files finally drop.

Everyone in 2022: Now that we've been vaccinated, let's return to the same socioeconomic conditions that allowed COVID to become widespread in the first place!

Everyone in 2024: Why is everyone suddenly so sick all the time?

Everyone in 2026: My doctor says it's normal for kids to be sick more often than not. We're building our immune systems! I had my third heart attack after my 37th birthday party last month.

all military members … remember what you are fighting for

#EpsteinFiles #TrumpSteinFiles #politics #War #military