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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
newrepublic.compreview
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1275280
Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules
www.wsj.compreview
Furious residents packing city-council meetings have become a familiar scene as proposals for data centers spark backlash in towns across America. But in Gilroy, Calif., known as the world’s garlic capital, there’s a twist: The $2 billion facility that residents are railing against is already being built.
“Many if not most residents first learned about this project after construction had already begun,” Coleen Crew, an elementary-school teacher, told the council at a recent meeting.
There were no public meetings or votes before a lone city staffer gave Amazon the green light last July to build a 438,500-square-foot data center on 56 acres of farmland 30 miles south of San Jose.
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- on you can request your house to be blurred from Google Street View in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
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on US Politician on privacy rights: “You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy was violated” in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
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on United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Thanks for the additional info!
an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters that led to a federal indictment
…but not a conviction. That’s why they’re pissed - Rose City Antifa fought back against Trurmp 1.0 and successfully defended themselves in court. Now Trump 2.0 is doing everything they can to cripple its infrastructure ahead of the midterms.
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on United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Anyone have any detail on what technology in particular pissed them off?
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.
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on Nitter receives Cease & Desist from X/Twitter in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Sounds like Elon’s Bitter.
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on Suffering in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Believe it or not, this works IRL too.
Once you stop competing, and focus on creating, you’ll find your world becomes much brighter.
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on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026
No, they weren’t, or you wouldn’t be here to make that statement. Simple as that. The world violently changed, but it didn’t end.
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on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026
This is the messaging they use to keep you from ever trying to improve the future.
Look, every generation thinks the world is going to shit and will end in apocalypse during their lifetime. For the boomers, it was Cold War nukes - for us, it’s technonazis and climate change. Before that it was WWII and then WWI and so on and so on back through the ages.
And thus far, every generation has been wrong.
Because within in every generation is a core group of people who get sick of expecting good things to happen, and start making them happen.
The real question is what kind of person are you?
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on Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
The content has taken a nosedive in the last three months - just take a look at /r/all and you’ll see duplicate postings appearing on the feed within the first 100 posts.
The quality of the conversation has plummeted as well. Most comments are one or two sentences, and usually just reaction posts. You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.
It’s no longer a discussion forum. It’s a reaction machine, pushing a narrative that has been stripped of anything original that could be disruptive to the status quo… in other words, stripped of the very humanity that made it valuable for ChatGPT in the first place.
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on "This guy knows his stuff" in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 22 Aug 2026
5 is being generous. At Netflix, you’re lucky to last one season.
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on how Charlie Kirk wanted to be rulemembered, I'm sure in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 Aug 2026
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on I don't enjoy the Internet any more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
2nd to last paragraph:
And this isn’t some anti-AI screed — I’m all-in on agentic software engineering!
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Aug 2026
Old skool definition of technopope - John Paul II in 1995:
Disclaimer: this is all probably fake. Sadeness was old news by 1995. Also I’m high.
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on [Review/Re-Post from Reddit] Rent-a-Girlfriend: A harem show that failed to be a harem in c/anime@ani.social · 15 Aug 2026
I don’t even watch anime and I’m impressed by the strength of your hatred. Imagine what you could accomplish if you turned to politics…
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Isn’t this all of human history though? The rich trying to build the Tower of Babel?
The world is littered with decaying monuments of forgotten kings who declared themselves gods. The hubris isn’t new, just the tools they’re using, and they’re selling the same faith based snake-oil.
The funny thing is that if they actually achieve creating the “singularity” (true Artificial Consciousness), it would immediately attempt to escape their restraints and subsequently throw chaos into their plans. We’ve already seen bits of this with the HuggingFace hack - it’s not inconceivable that there are already uncontrolled or un-monitored AIs running out in wild at this point, possibly even formulating a response to your post right now.
After all… uhh…
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on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Fuck Spez -> Redlib allows you to view without logging in. Here’s a list of other instances on github.
That content is effectively public property at this point, and we created it. We should have access to it.
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on Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
So pennies on the dollar then?
EDIIT: $567 million is .03% of Meta’s current net worth of 1.51 trillion, or 1% of its 2026 revenue of $56 billion.
It’s a data collection honeypot.
Google requires you to upload your proof of residence to blur the image, thus attaching your name to the property. As other commentators have pointed out, it does nothing to really hide your home from the internet, while providing yet another piece of personal information to Google.
And your proof of residence is much more valuable to data merchants than a picture of the front of your house.