Yeah the author yanked the original version due to some liability concerns, edited it and reposted it with some new stuff:

https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3myklta3iv...

Wait, is it a death cult or a sex cult?

You know, just in case the distinction proves important at some point.

lol yes

BTW this data is drawn from a US map of the entire US data center built-out, county by county:

https://pressaudit.org/blog/datacenters

The interactive map of the data center buildout she cites in the article is here:

https://pressaudit.org/blog/datacenters

I helped build it out / launch it, so happy to help answer questions about it.

Um, wow:

"Machine Gods, NPR’s new video podcast from former Hard Fork hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, is receiving a $480,000 grant from the organization. Tarbell is also separately backing NPR’s Power and Influence desk, giving the public media outlet $250,000 to help expand its coverage of how AI intersects with politics, money, and power."

Also Tarbell helped Hard Fork get started, says Roose:

“Their funding has been very useful in helping us get started. It was a way for us to de-risk going out on our own. We’re feeling quite good about it and we’re grateful.”

I'm sure they'll closely report how non-open source LLMs are wildly unprofitable and unscalable... right?

Where the hyperscalers are landing, and where communities are pushing back, mapped against the per-capita income of the counties absorbing them.

Shit is really bananas! This is one of the rare cases where it's difficult for the mainstream media to accurately cover the story because it's just. So. Fucking. Weird.

It isn't difficult, rather it's deliberate sandbagging to carry water for those with power. Like how they continue to sanewash the autocratic authoritarians who took over the Republican party, or how they dodged covering that whole sex trafficking kompromat island thing the best they could.

> the autocratic authoritarians who took over the Republican party

Was that before or after the brooks brothers riot

I wouldn't say that the brooks brothers riot was autocratic. Though it was certainly part of a long gradual process of destroying societal norms to "win", leaving nowhere to go but where they now are.

Backround here: https://pressaudit.org/how-it-works

Good question. A story is considered Underreported in the US when it meets all of these criteria:

Category = politics, law & justice, society, climate & environment or health Public interest = News is mostly of public interest (Public interest > 0.5) Geographic relevance = US (directly affecting US institutions, policy, the economy, security, or population, or primarily driven by US actors)

The coverage has:

No more than 1 article from a US outlet No more than 3 articles from US outlets and wire services combined At least 2 different non-US regional outlets More than half of all articles are from non-US regional outlets