@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 00:25:38
We speak with Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson,
who just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state’s 9th Congressional District.
Pearson’s campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers,
particularly Elon Musk’s Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which are in the Memphis area.
“People don’t want toxic data centers polluting the air that they breathe,” says Pearson.
“It’s not a fight of right versus left;
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-09-15 16:42:27
Brought to you by the #PartyOfLife. Maybe life for only certain colors?
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
https…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-09-15 16:42:27
Brought to you by the #PartyOfLife. Maybe life for only certain colors?
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
https…
@der_raddler@dresden.network2026-08-14 11:10:24
In einer Stadt, in welcher der ÖPNV zusammengestrichen und jedes Fahrradprojekt aufs härteste bekämpft wird, während großzügig überdimensionierte Verkehrswege für den MIV gebaut werden, muss man sich über diese Prognose nicht wundern.
Die fossile Rechte freut es, da sie diese Zahlen als Legitimation für ihre Politik heranziehen kann.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-15 16:08:11
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice.
You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide.
It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment.
You can fuck right off with that bullshit.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-15 12:10:51
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-14 03:41:08
He was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America.
Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo helped fuel the rise of right-wing politicians in South and Central America.
Cerimedo now sits in a Bolivian maximum security prison, accused of ordering hitmen to murder his pregnant mistress, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
The brazen shooting, captured on security cameras, has taken on the color of gripping t…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-14 21:01:37
Source: defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $20B; Shield raised $2B at a valuation of $12.7B in March (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/defense-startup-shield-ai-ta…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 20:59:36
Rescuers were still searching for three missing people on Wednesday
after a boat involved in a memorial service sank in the cold, fast-moving waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island, authorities said.
At least one person died and 16 people were rescued after the boat capsized on Tuesday afternoon in what witnesses described as “rough seas”,
San Francisco’s fire chief, Dean Crispen, said.
He said the passengers on board were mostly family members, and that a …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-14 14:00:50
How do billionaires accumulate so much wealth?
Much if not most of their wealth is held in stocks and is taxed differently than income.
Consider Mark Zuckerberg. Between 2013 and 2019, his fortune increased by 368 percent,
thanks primarily to the 342 million shares of Meta he owns.
During that period, his declared income
— taxed at a rate of 13.7 percent, similar to that for the average taxpayer
— was much smaller than his net worth and resulted in a tax bi…
