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Tech Bros Sound Alarm As AI Data Centers Poll Worse Than ICE Agents The tech bros are only now waking up to what we pointed out 1 year and 8 months ago: the early stages of public backlash against AI data center expansion. Since then, this resistance has spread nationwide as working-class people grow increasingly angry about hyperscalers erecting massive AI data centers in their backyards, with one of the most immediate consequences being surging power bills. "If tech leaders don't organize and get America on their side, the situation on...

US Approves "Homing All The Way Killer" Missile Support Sale To Ukraine The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine's frontline air defenses online, after there's not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington's longtime military support to Kiev of late. The cash injection targets the maintenance and optimization of the US-designed HAWK system - which is short for the "Homing All the Way Killer" surface-to-air missile system. Bild/Getty Images Depending on the exact missile variant deployed, the platform handles tactical...

Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login Authored by Sam Lowry via dailysceptic.org, Authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive with a coup. It arrives with a login, a compliance form, a penalty notice for keeping records in the wrong format. It comes with a quietly extended electoral term, a cancelled bank account, a prison sentence for a social media post. Each measure has a reasonable-sounding justification. The problem is the direction — and how far it has already travelled. Power is migrating from the visible arena of democratic politics to the...