Not deep, just pretentious || Views are your mom’s II Climate, energy, public health, planes, China, shitposting
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Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
as a journalist i would love to know examples where a community in the u.s. actually embraced a data center buildout & loved it so much. earnestly
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that shows potential to protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the closest yet to a universal vaccine.
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Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus
go.nature.com/4nAMi6g
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Lawyers who work on data center development told me a few months ago that a gray market has developed for turbines and other equipment, along with short-term rentals. law360.com/articles/2439433/…
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Thinking about how there must be at least a few data centers projects that were started with land acknowledgements
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
A better precedent than you know: before pervasive regulation, electric companies fomented populist anger. Ed Dunne became Chicago mayor in 1905 promising a public power takeover. FDR fought the Insull Trust. The trusts accepted PUCs, fearing socialism would come if they didn’t.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
"The right question should be how many data centers should we have collectively, and what purposes they serve." climatecommunityinstitute.su…
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
The second group wants to withhold a social license to build from the tech industry until they can demonstrate the potential benefits to the public as such outweigh the dramatic costs to society, recognizing past mistakes re: the commercial internet and social media.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
These and other disparities illustrate that local governments have a lot of power to protect their residents from data center impacts -- but many don't use this power because so many politicians are beholden to Big Tech.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Alternatively, the grid might be entirely federalized, creating an illusion of public control that would satisfy the pwogwessives but dispensing with meaningful oversight, local input and democratic participation.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Delta getting the quarantine for covid cut to five days should've been a much clearer moment for lots of people: all your public health standards is at the whim of the bosses who want you to die on the clock
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
I cannot see why they'd be worried abt another pandemic lol. I just can't. We have no solidarity or political awareness around this issue. Whoever talks about it gets "covidtelpro" shouted at them endlessly. Idk if hantavirus will be the next pandemic, but idk why they'd stop it.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
But the plan "worker leverage over production ➡️ socialist politics" has a ton of issues in the middle there and not a lot of successful American models. Gonna need more steps.
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI.
For @truthout.
truthout.org/articles/wall-s…
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
The AI build-out depends on gas turbines and power transformers made by a handful of workers at a handful of plants in the US South.
That bottleneck is a vulnerability — and a rare opportunity for labor to exercise real power over the tech giants. jacobin.com/2026/05/workers-…
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
Data centers as “speculative private infrastructure” is the most precise description I’ve read and I will be stealing this phrase
Winston Y. (he/him) retweeted
This would not have happened if public health had done it’s job and implemented airborne infection control in hospitals since 2020 and taught medical professionals how airborne transmission works. They literally do not know.
