“One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation... Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people… They work for the establishment and the corporations and the politicos to keep things as they are. And they want to frighten and chill the people who are trying to change things.” -- Howard Zinn, historian
By Tyler Durden
For most of 2026, the bear case on the US power producers could be summed up in one sentence: nobody is signing data center PPAs in PJM. Last week Amazon did. This morning Google did, too, and this one is five times bigger.
A single piece of paper filed in a local court could soon give massive corporations the power to erase your entire digital existence without a criminal conviction. Representative Darrell Issa has quietly introduced H.R. 10364, the American Copyright Protection Act of 2026, a bill that fundamentally threatens how the global internet operates.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, responsiblestatescraft.org
Technology companies issued as much as $300 billion in guarantees tied to AI data centers and chips over the past year, according to a Financial Times analysis.
These aren’t conventional loans. They’re something called residual value guarantees, and the way they work is almost elegant in how much they hide.
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Microsoft has truly lost the plot. I hate their recent Operating System offerings, far too invasive and manipulative. They're about to join Apple in my bin. https://t.co/TJ8tyng2HZ
— Kerry Burgess (@KerryBurgess) October 4, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a motion for a temporary injunction that would bar minors from accessing ChatGPT in Florida and restrict OpenAI’s development of new models until independent third-party safety checks are in place. The filing landed in Highlands County Circuit Court and expands an ongoing state lawsuit that began in June. The motion argues current guardrails are not enough and asks the judge to act while the case proceeds to protect children from risk online.