Robert ReichA Report You Need to Read https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-report-you-need-to-read?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Panicky_Patzer
@panicky_patzer
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I teach high schoolers for a living. I'm politically progressive. I live in the Midwest but would rather not. I have hobbies (playing guitar, piano, and chess), but feel like a rank amateur at all of them. I enjoy reading, but rarely have the time to read. I'm a school board member. I was in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry when I was a young, dumb kid right out of high school. I don't respond to unsolicited DMs.
Arne BrasseurIt's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
Heidi Li Feldman#1AsantaFe applauds this librarian in Tennessee who is refusing to go along with a county’s viewpoint discrimination against LGBTQ+ books. https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/rutherford-library-director-refusal
More about #SantaFe First Amendment group: https://1asantafe.beehiiv.com/
JuneSim63 💚Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, according to an analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
"The very basics, the things we rely on to build the foundations of a good life, have been taken out of our hands, sold for profit – and then sold or rented back to us at crushing rates. The water that keeps us alive. The energy that warms us. The home that keeps us safe"
Zack Polanski, leader Green Party of England and Wales
nixCraft 🐧Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies https://www.theolympus.net/13531/
Washington House Bill 2515, which aimed to make data centers pay for their own grid infrastructure and use clean energy, failed in March 2026. Despite passing the House, the bill was defeated in the Senate following heavy lobbying from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. They will keep using clean water and electricity but bill needs to be paid by locals.
Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies
Washington state is home to about 126 artificial intelligence data centers. These data centers evaporate millions of gallons of freshwater each day to provide cooling, but at the cost of draining local resources. The rapid expansion of these data centers strains regional drinking water supplies, as well as increasing blackout risk due to the high...
Karl Voit 
Dear friends in the #USA,
in case you haven't notices yet: you've lost the status of being a proper #democracy. 😔
Exhibit A from today:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/14/trump-carr-fcc-media-iran-war/
Good night, and good luck.
#media #press #journalism #failedstate #Republicans #WhiteHouse #politicalenshittification #politics
xtaldave
Jenny CohnI read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
