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Jonathan @jmcrookston.bsky.social · 5h

"For instance, investor faith in the AI boom was rattled in August when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published research showing that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI pilots"

Zero return on investment is good, right?

Bueller? Bueller?

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235.bsky.social · 8h

In an endemic, there needs to be a certain part of the population most likely to catch the disease so that others can be saved and live for longer. That's the role of the anti-vaxx.

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Tweet by Jean Fisch reads: “The healthy vaccinee effect runs deeper than we may think. This full national Danish study shows a huge effect remains even after correcting for age, sex, comorbidity, medical visits, and place of residence. The ‘unvaccinated by choice’ test less (and die earlier).” Below is an image showing multiple small charts titled “Testing / Diagnoses and Mortality Incidence among 60–90 Vaccinated and Unvaccinated in Denmark.” The graphs compare vaccinated vs. unvaccinated groups for test frequency, diagnoses, and mortality. Vaccinated people test and get screened more often and have lower mortality rates, while unvaccinated groups show flatter lines for testing and steeper curves for death. Source cited: Danish Health Registry Study.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones in January 2025.
In June 2025, Keir Starmer's government published a paper Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan, that will merge the Tories' 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs into Industrial Strategy Zones, along with +200 AI Growth Zones.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Soaring energy bills for local residents who get to subsidize the infrastructure while tech giants get 10 year tax breaks.
And property values plummeting by 5-15% as once-peaceful communities are transformed into industrial zones.

If you don't know yet, this is what Zone Fever looks like.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Facilities that consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. Water usage matching entire cities. Industrial noise levels reaching 90 decibels, equivalent to a chainsaw running 24/7.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Over 200 local authorities across the UK have submitted bids to become “AI Growth Zones”, a designation that strips away planning protections, bypasses environmental safeguards, and fast-tracks massive data centers into communities that never asked for them.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 8h

Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset
The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark
I'm a volunteer, please support my research! Subscribe to my Substack
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Britain’s AI Growth Zone Gamble: How Government is Selling Out Communities From Oxford to Wales to Dorset

The Great Data Center Land Grab: 200+ Bids and Counting While Communities Are Left in the Dark

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22h

This is the densest article I have written to date on the UK duopoly's nationwide rollout of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, and AI Growth Zones.
Please take the time to read and share it.
I would appreciate it very much if you subscribe to my Substack💚
open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Silent Architecture of Control: Is a Social Credit System Being Built in UK Free Zones?

All the ingredients for Chinese-style surveillance are being assembled in Britain’s corporate-governed territories—with zero public debate

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20h

Peter Thiel wrote this in 2014, and it's safe to say that both tech and venture capital have adopted this approach and gone on to merge with the cult known as MAGA.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20h

“In the most intense kind of organization, members abandon the outside world and hang out only with other members. We have a word for such organizations: cults. Cultures of total dedication look crazy from the outside. But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously.”

You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult. Here's How

No company has a culture; every company is a culture. A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside. The first team that I built has become ...

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Arturo Portnoy @portna.bsky.social · 1d

It be coming...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

It is extremely unwise to ignore the fact that a digital panopticon is being erected around us.
This is a key component of a new form of authoritarian capitalism known as Surveillance Capitalism.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

“Most people have no idea what’s about to happen”
Palantir’s move into the ‘terrorism futures market’
Palantir secures health data as a major asset in its portfolio, including the NHS in the UK.
Palantir’s dragnet involves pre-crime tech or predictive policing.
Thread
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Palantir have contracts with the UK’s police forces, three-quarters of whom refuse to declare whether they have a contract with Palantir.
Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions, also including the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Watch @whitneyweb.bsky.social expose the incomprehensible levels of corporate infiltration of critical infrastructure. And one more thing Peter Thiel is an advocate of Special Economic Zones and charter cities, or as Trump likes to call them, ‘Free cities’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNP...

"You Have No Idea What Palantir Has Planned" | Whitney Webb

YouTube video by Whitney's Fan Club

www.youtube.com

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

The window for resistance is closing, but it hasn’t closed. Every zone operates on public subsidy and political permission. Both can be revoked. Organize. Challenge. Resist.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

4/ **SUPPORT ALTERNATIVES**
Back community-owned food processing, publicly-run research facilities, municipal data centres, and cooperative enterprise zones governed by workers and communities. Prove democratic ownership works better.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Blueskyer's, am I wasting my time informing you of seismic changes to the entire critical infrastructure of the UK post-Brexit? Changes wrought by the Tories, by Labour, and with Reform UK's full backing.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

BlackRock's own former ESG chief called it a "dangerous placebo that harms the public interest".
Blackrock is embarking on what it calls its Infrastructure Imperative. This represents a serious incursion into the public sector, it is wholly dependent on UK public services collapse.

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Nobody @davidepike.bsky.social · 2d

all who breathe indoors are "in danger". anti-maskers don't care about verifiable reality...they seem to only care about consuming and complaining.

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