From Texas to Virginia and everywhere in between, Black residents are confronting these projects in different ways.
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“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
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The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.
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Silicon Valley is bankrolling the far right’s attacks on global democracy and getting anti-regulatory allies in return.
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Tech workers are also increasingly determined to hold their workplaces accountable for enabling the genocide in Gaza.
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These facilities compete for water with existing communities and may deplete local groundwater aquifers.
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AI’s flaws and dangers are glaring, yet the industry keeps growing, fueled by fantasies and fears of missing out.
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These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism.
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Experts say multiple carriers using the same price-setting softwares could amount to “algorithmic collusion.”
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Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.
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DOGE has already made progress in assembling the personal details of hundreds of millions of individuals.
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The GENIUS ACT would “create a superhighway for Donald Trump’s corruption,” Sen Elizabeth Warren told Rolling Stone.
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