In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.
Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.
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> Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-01/us-ai-data-center-expansion-relies-on-chinese-electrical-equipment-imports
archive: https://archive.is/chEEI
This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable
(I mean, more so than it has been historically)
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116336718713225759
Every country absolutely needs to have a disaster management plan in place that does not include any action whatsoever from the United States.
This includes a communication plan where the US will be actively spreading misinformation and disinformation to make up for dear leaders incompetency on top of the known bad actors from mostly Russia whose agenda is to weaken the rest of the world.
Any country that does not have a plan that absolutely excludes the US is being negligent at this point.
Communication plans must also not rely on corporate media. They are not our allies in the fight for global health. They are extensions of the capitalist class and if the solution to keep us alive threatens Q4 earnings.... Guess what is more important?
This is not a drill. I literally just defended a dissertation on how the media killed people during COVID. I have receipts.
I'm wondering what's involved in setting up a worker-run cooperative and keeping it running; who here as experience working in such a cooperative?
What were you doing? How did it go? Did it pull in enough money to pay the bills? What were the conflicts in organizing it? Do you still work there? What were the major challenges? Was anything surprising about the process of it all?
Boosts very appreciated!
Tomorrow Vercel is updating its terms to use your code and agent chats for AI training and third-party data sharing. So we just wanted to remind you that the CEO of this company openly aligns himself with Netanyahu.
Here's quick guide on how to opt-out or even better: how to migrate off Vercel.
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/vercels-ceo-likes-war-criminals-now-he-wants-your-code/

September 2025. Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, poses smiling next to Benjamin Netanyahu at a private AI tech meeting in New York. The photo goes viral within hours. Employees resign. Developers cancel their accounts and migrate to competitors. Enterprise contracts get terminated. The backlash is immediate, loud, and widespread. But