Media Bits and Bytes — October 27, 2026
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Beating back the broligarchs
Beating back the broligarchs
Beating back the broligarchs
The Accidental Activists of Data Center Alley
The Nation
These would-be rebels in Northern Virginia joined the fight against data centers mostly to stop the encroachment on their homes and exclusive private communities. Here is the country’s thickest concentration of data centers—233 centers in all...
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How ‘You Can See Everything’ Exacts Hollywood’s Revenge on Big Tech
The Hollywood Reporter
Along with 'Artificial,' 'Musk' and 'The Social Reckoning,' the storytellers are finally getting back at the engineers.
Friday Nite Videos | October 16, 2026
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Bernie Shocks with WSJ Poll on What Americans Really Want. Death by Firing Squad. Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on NAZA. One of the Reddest Counties Is Losing Faith in Trump. Dario Amodei Quit OpenAI To Make AI 'Safe.' And Now?
Bernie Shocks with WSJ Poll on What Americans Really Want
Medicare for All, a $20 federal minimum wage, a billionaire wealth tax, a pause on AI development? The proposals are not shocking ... the level of public support is.
Dario Amodei Quit OpenAI To Make AI 'Safe.' And Now?
Anthropic is now eying a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time. At the same time the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by saying its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient.
Media Bits and Bytes — October 13, 2026
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A free press is really expensive
The ‘War Games’ Problem: How To Keep AI Under Control
The Conversation
In the movie ‘War Games’ a young gamer unintentionally launches an AI into what it believes to be an exploration of the threat of nuclear war, but with the real threat of triggering nuclear Armageddon. Can it be stopped? Can it learn restraint?
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South Park Has AI Datacentres, Sentient Penises and a Billionaire Problem – in More Ways Than One
The Guardian
Matt Parker and Trey Stone take aim at the obscenely wealthy in the latest episode – but it feels harder now to forget how wealthy they are
Friday Nite Videos | October 2, 2026
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Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. The Corruption at Starlink Is Shocking. "60 SECONDS" | AOC Talks Democratic Socialism. Anthropic IPO Documents AI Risks. Pete Hegseth Purges Weirdos and Wimps.
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