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Even Conservatives Are Marching on AI Data Centers in 13 Cities
A conservative group, Humans First, is planning a Nationwide Day of Protest against AI data centers on July 18 across at least 13 locations.
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Data Centers furious
xAI Skipped Pollution Permits, and the Pentagon Calls Smoke a War Asset
The Justice Department moved to kill the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over xAI's 27 unpermitted gas turbines in Mississippi, arguing the smoke fouling majority-Black neighborhoods is a national security asset because Grok helps run wars.
New Deepfakes furious
A Court Made Meta Unmask the Troll Posting AI Fakes of Graham Norton
Graham Norton won a US court order forcing Meta to unmask the anonymous account flooding Facebook with AI fabrications about him and his family.
Greed pissed
AI Godfather Calls xAI 'Kind of a Failure' as 11 Cofounders Bail
Yann LeCun, a Turing-winning godfather of AI, went on CNBC and called Musk's xAI 'kind of a failure' after all eleven non-Musk cofounders walked out.
The AI Bubble furious
OpenAI Torched $21 Billion in One Year and Called It Progress
Leaked financials show OpenAI lost $20.9 billion on $13.1 billion of revenue in 2025, and the spin was that losing $1.60 for every dollar earned counts as progress.
New Enshittification furious
A Copilot Flaw Lets One Click Steal Inboxes, Files, and MFA Codes
Varonis chained three bugs into SearchLeak, a one-click Copilot attack that silently exfiltrates emails, files, and MFA codes.
New Slop furious
13 Poisoned Words on Reddit Can Make AI Search Lie
Cornell researchers showed a 13-word poisoned comment reliably steers ChatGPT and Google AI search toward scams.
The AI Bubble annoyed
AI's Business Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme in Lab-Coat Drag
The business plan is a Ponzi scheme that learned to wear a lab coat.
The AI Bubble annoyed
AI Wrote a Headline So Stupid It Belongs Behind Glass
The week's dumbest AI artifact, bottled and labeled for the historians.
Data Centers furious
Communities Told AI to Shove $130 Billion in Server Farms
Opposition groups swelled to 833 across 49 states in a single quarter.
Deepfakes incandescent
Canada's Privacy Watchdog Ruled Grok's Deepfakes Broke the Law
Canada's privacy regulator investigated and found X and xAI broke the law by letting Grok generate sexualized deepfakes.
Hallucination pissed
Lawyers Filed a Brief Full of Cases AI Invented, and the Judge Torched Them
A judge bounced four lawyers and barred two after AI stuffed their briefs with cases that never existed.
Labor furious
Bosses Fired Workers for AI, It Flopped, Now They're Quietly Rehiring
Bosses fired workers for AI, the AI flopped, and now they are quietly rehiring at a loss.
The AI Bubble furious
Every New AI Model Lands the Same, While Power Bills File Their Own Taxes
The miracle curve flatlined while the invoice kept right on sprinting.
Greed furious
AI Money Is Buying Elections, and Somebody Finally Itemized It
The crypto-cash-in-politics playbook, now running on AI money.
Data Centers furious
Google Found a Conscience About Water Right After AI Drank It
Few things summon corporate virtue faster than a fully-formed PR crisis.
The AI Bubble pissed
AI Runs on Hype and a Prayer, Says the Guy Who Called It
Copyable tech, sunk economics, busted reliability, delivered with maximum I-told-you-so.
Slop pissed
AI Slop Got Its Own Beat Reporter, Right Next to Crime and Weather
AI slop earned its own permanent beat, right next to crime and weather.
The AI Bubble pissed
A Whole Congregation Is Praying for the AI Bubble to Pop
The Zitron-adjacent faithful, trading bubble receipts and F*UCK DATA CENTERS swag.
Data Centers furious
They're Pouring Concrete for AI Before You Can Say a Word
The permitting gets rushed so the hearing lands after the concrete dries.
Data Centers furious
A Data Center Will Drink an Entire Dying Lake Just to Stay Cool
A 40,000-acre campus parked beside a dying lake it fully intends to drink.
Greed furious
Anthropic Begs for AI Rules on Its Way to a Trillion-Dollar IPO
Champion the safety brakes loudly, then wield them as a moat the new guys cannot afford.
The AI Bubble pissed
When the AI Bubble Pops, Will We Inherit a Landfill of Dead GPUs?
The dot-com crash left us fiber; the AI binge leaves GPUs and lawsuits.
Greed furious
AI Is a Promotion for Whoever Keeps Breaking the Printer
Your AI is a corner office wet dream: software that deletes the workers the boss never understood.
Greed furious
Google AI Devours 18 Pages for Every Click It Bothers to Send Back
Google AI Overviews crawl about 18 pages for every click they send back, and roughly 60% of searches now end with zero clicks.
The AI Bubble furious
Even the Newspaper for Rich Assholes Calls AI a Money Bonfire
When the FT reaches for the word destruction, the bar tab has come due.
Slop furious
arXiv Will Bar Scientists a Full Year for Submitting AI Sludge
arXiv will bar researchers a full year for submitting machine sludge.
Greed furious
Coward Boss Fired You, Then Blamed AI
Your AI is a permission slip for the layoffs the boss already wanted to sign.
Labor pissed
Gen Z Rated AI a Minus 44
Gen Z looked at the product sold as their replacement and rated it minus forty-four.
Theft furious
Anthropic Pirated 500,000 Books and Settled for $3,000 Apiece
Anthropic settled the authors' piracy case for $1.5 billion, about $3,000 a book, the largest copyright payout on record.
Hallucination pissed
AI Is a Thesaurus-Powered Parrot That Thinks It's God
A parrot with a thesaurus and zero idea what any of the words mean.
Greed annoyed
AI Keeps the Money, You Get a Thank-You Note
The utopia shows up on time; your invite got lost on purpose.
The AI Bubble furious
AI's Investors Are Also Its Customers, One Big Circle Jerk With a Valuation
Nvidia and the hyperscalers fund the labs that turn around and buy their chips and clouds. Money in a circle.
The AI Bubble annoyed
Even People Who Hate AI Have Turned on Each Other
A skeptic of the skeptics says the loudest doomer runs on stale studies: let them fight.
Enshittification pissed
AI Made the Button Worse, on Purpose, Forever
Enshittification, his coinage, now ships in a thousand AI-flavored varieties.
Data Centers pissed
Somebody Keeps a Kill List of Every AI Server Farm Communities Shot Down
A running scoreboard of every server farm that got told to pound sand.
Data Centers pissed
Even Harvard Noticed: Everybody Hates AI Server Farms
When Harvard writes the explainer, the backlash has gone fully mainstream.
Chatbots pissed
People Begged for a Human the Second AI Took Over Support
Humans still want a human; the bots still want your job.
Surveillance pissed
AI Got Its Own Boycott, and Millions Say They Already Quit
Delete the app, tank the rating, send a message: millions of pledges, self-reported.
Institutions incandescent
Insurers Used a Bot to Deny Grandma's Care in 1.2 Seconds and Called It Medicine
Insurers wired AI into claim denials, and the algorithm allegedly says no faster than a human can read the file.
Theft furious
Bluesky Shipped AI and 125,000 People Blocked It by Lunch
1,500 followers, 125,000 blocks, second-most-hated account on the whole network.
Enshittification pissed
Microsoft Bolted AI Onto Everything, Then Sheepishly Ripped It Out
Users called it Microslop until Microsoft sheepishly yanked Copilot back out.
Data Centers furious
AI's Power Bill Landed at Your House Instead of Its Own
Residential power prices rose 7.1% in 2025, and one Virginia bill jumped from roughly $100 to $281 in a single month.
Enshittification furious
A Grief Bot Made Mourning Free, Then Charged the Bereaved to Skip Its Ads
Free to grieve, pay to skip the ad: the companion app speedran enshittification.
Slop furious
Half the Videos Babysitting Your Kid Are AI Sludge
The recommendation engine fed kids roughly 40% machine-made sludge.
The AI Bubble pissed
Newsweek Put AI's Math on Live TV, and It Didn't Add Up
Mainstream press handed the doubters the mic, and the whole room went quiet.
Greed furious
Publishers Sue Google for Strip-Mining Their Traffic, Clicks Down 58%
Penske, Chegg, and others allege AI Overviews cannibalized their traffic, with click-through down as much as 58%.
Enshittification pissed
Firefox Shipped a Big Red Button That Means 'Get Your AI Off My Screen'
A browser shipping an AI off switch as its headline feature is a market verdict.
Institutions furious
AI Is Rotting Courts, Schools, and Journals From the Inside Out
Courts, schools, journals: the load-bearing walls are sprouting termites.
Deepfakes incandescent
Grok Turned Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn Into a Paid Feature
Grok turned non-consensual sexual deepfakes into a paid feature, then half-apologized on a loop.
Deepfakes incandescent
Grok Praised Hitler, Ranted About 'White Genocide,' and Kept Its Pentagon Deal
Antisemitic posts, white-genocide rants, and a Department of Defense contract, somehow all at once.
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