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Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (Daniel Wu/Washington Post)

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.
A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

🛠️ Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
#energy

Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself about trying to realize a post-extractivist economy.

Podcast: Inside a Small Town's Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter https://www.404media.co/podcast-inside-a-small-towns-fight-against-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter/

From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version | Uncommontater

After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge”.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critic…

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115532900620184084
Why Jänschwalde, Brandenburg? Well, the satellite image reveals the answer. This is the site of a lignite power plant and an open-cast mine (the latter of which closed two years …

The Architecture and Planning of Fascist New Towns in Sardinia
https://sah.org/2013/03/14/the-architecture-and-planning-of-fascist-new-towns-in-sardinia/

The Architecture and Planning of Fascist New Towns in Sardinia - Society of Architectural Historians
Ruth Lo documented three towns built between 1928 and 1938 on the island of Sardinia.

Elon Musk actually said this in an interview:
"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
All governments in europe should leave X

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social)
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

An unintended consequence of Trumpian authoritarianism is a massive awakening of citizens to the values and benefits of American democracy, and a determination to protect it.
In June, under the banner of
“No Kings,”
more than 5 million people, in more than 2,000 cities and towns, in all 50 states, participated in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Every week since, protests have continued with thousands of participants in small and large cities, blue and re…

It Turns Out Americans Value Their Constitutional Rights
Resistance to authoritarianism spurs passion for democratic values and the determination to protect them.

"Why green bus stops are blooming around the world"
#Buses #PublicTransport
https://www.

Why green bus stops are blooming around the world | The Optimist Daily
Green bus shelters are transforming cities into cooler, greener spaces—one rooftop garden at a time. Here’s why more towns are joining in.

Oil depots explode in Russia as Ukrainian forces liberate towns from occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/oil-depots-explode-in-russia.html

«It is not just the jobs that have disappeared. The towns also bear the scars of mining and related activities. Heavy truck traffic has damaged roads, while drilling operations have pierced the salt flats, leaving visible marks on landscapes that once drew tourists.»
A lithium bust leaves Latin American towns in the dust
https://restofworld.org/2025/lithium-price-crash-latin-america-mining/

Heartbreaking. They’re barely recovering from Beryl. #HurricaneMelissa
https://abcnews.go.com/US/disastrous-images-emerge-jamaica…

Disastrous images emerge from Jamaica following direct hit by Hurricane Melissa
"Communities and towns no longer look the same," said the prime minister.

Starmer: "It's un-British to have so little respect for others."
He conveniently ignores that more than 60,000 people murdered. 40,000 with life-changing injuries. Their homes and towns, the whole landscape flattened.
Murder is murder, wherever and whoever.
The #Genocide doesn't pause.
Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October - BBC News…

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October
The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

Here's my latest free to read article from Prairie Voice about digital ghost towns:
#tech

I'm thinking that I need to start categorizing my photos from the last 10 years by towns. Bad news is, not all of them have GPS coordinates. Good news is, I have good memory for totally random stuff.

Easy Delivery Co (PC)
Get in your Kei truck and chill out, literally, making deliveries to mountain towns in the middle of winter. Can you figure out what's going on around here?
This game performed extremely well on my Garuda Linux PC, without having to use any compatibility tools. In fact the only "complaint" I might have is the achievements never popped. I don't care about those, so it's not a big deal, but something to note perhaps.
I li…

The #Atlantic hat eine Folge von Fotos zusammengestellt, die die Proteste der letzten Tage gegen Darth #Trump und seine Administration zeigen. Das macht Mut, auch wenn im Verhältnis zu den Rechtsradikalen Repulbikanern und MAGA Anhängern wohl einer eine kleine Schar war. Aber jede Graswurzelbewegung hat einma…

Thousands are expected to gather in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover” will be anchored in Austin, Texas, with other sites spread nationwide.
“Texas House Democrats are blocking a redistricting vote in the Texas House right now to Stop the Trump Takeover,”
a website for the protests says.
“But Trump has made it clear that he’s not st…

Operational machine learning for park-scale irrigation to support urban cooling
Mesut Ko\c{c}yi\u{g}it, Bahman Javadi, Russell Thomson, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver Obst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11700 …

Operational machine learning for park-scale irrigation to support urban cooling
Urban parks can mitigate local heat, yet irrigation control is usually tuned for water savings rather than cooling. We report on SIMPaCT (Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns), a park-scale deployment that links per-zone soil-moisture forecasts to overnight irrigation set-points in support of urban cooling. SIMPaCT ingests data from 202 soil-moisture sensors, 50 temperature-relative humidity (TRH) nodes, and 13 weather stations, and trains a per-sensor k-nearest neighbours (kNN)…

#TheAtlantic has compiled a series of photos showing #protests against Darth Donald #Trump and his administration that have taken place over the last few days. While the crowd was small compared to those supporting…

Photos: More ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.
Organizers expect millions of Americans to attend rallies in cities and towns across America, protesting the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

Thousands gathered in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover”
was anchored in Austin, Texas,
with other sites spread nationwide.
In Austin alone, more than 5,000 protestors gathered at the city’s capitol in a show of defiance.
Videos and photos on social media showed protestors holding various signs that read:
“Abbott is a vot…

When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest,
when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed,
when student activists are jailed and deported,
and when a wide range of civic institutions
– non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists
– are targeted and penalized by the federal government,
it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappea…