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Scranton, Pennsylvania. Paper is the technology of the future. https://chloehumbert.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/chloehumbert

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 29d

My Letter to the Editor was published in the Scranton Times-Tribune.
www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/09/08/l...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR PUBLISHED: September 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM EDT Editor: It's all over the news that wherever these big data centers turn up, electricity and water bills skyrocket for the communities. Yet Rep. Rob Bresnahan keeps parroting the claim that monster data center palaces will magically unleash affordability when all evidence is to the contrary. Rep. Bresnahan's reply letter to me about data center projects regurgitated PA Senator Rosemary Brown's talking point from the Archbald hearing falsely claiming monstrosity data centers are needed for photo backups and banking services. But the tech industry openly admits it's the AI that requires huge data center campuses. The world's banks have used computers for decades without huge "clusters". Backups to the cloud take minuscule processing compared to what's needed for Large Language Model type AI companions that flatter users or for chatbots that conjure up fake citation footnotes. Bresnahan is overpromising jobs at data centers because by now everyone knows data centers don't need lots of people. Besides, AI technology is being marketed to CEOs as a way to eliminate the need for humans! They're promising an "AI jobs apocalypse" to employers looking to downsize payrolls. Either AI makes jobs or eliminates jobs, you can't have it both ways. Bresnahan bragged about a government joint venture with Blackstone. But Blackstone is despised for their business practices in real estate and rentals. Why would we welcome that boondoggle? Bresnahan seems to think I would like government rushing through environmental rules because politicians seem to think "environment" is just a political buzzword when what this means to me is the surroundings where I live and not wanting my home enveloped by unbearable noise and toxic fumes of data centers. AI booster politicians invested in tech companies think we're not tech savvy here in NEPA and won't know what's up. But I'm not fooled. Chloe Humbert, Scranton

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 6h

My entire life since the 80s could've been different.

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 6h

I'm so glad I don't know what this means or who those people are.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7h

“ICE wants you to give up.”

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 6h

😂 🙄 I love how this article says it shaped a narrative and created an illusion of consensus around Trump being an authoritarian when Stephen Miller came right out and said "plenary" in public in the major media and Donald Trump himself says authoritarian things all the time.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters. trib.al/4vE1zjf

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 9h

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 9h

That's not how lab leak truthing political ideological beliefs work. You have to know the whole narrative story around this to understand why lab leak truthers are pandemic deniers.

chloehumbert.substack.com/p/lab-leak-t...

People buying into this conspiracy fiction and political ideology are led to think that there was a sinister plot to make covid in a lab, but they don't actually think that the virus itself was the murder part. Chloe Humbert Lab Leak Truthers are Pandemic Deniers.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 9h

Sadly this is not new.
chloehumbert.substack.com/p/a-lyme-dis...

A Lyme Disease vaccine was stopped by people tricked by anti-vax propaganda.

But we're not going to learn from that I guess and just do it again with Long Covid.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 10h

they hate accommodations

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 10h

lol

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 14h

I was so confused by this, until I watched the video, I thought this was a "Rump Watch" news show following rump branded stuff. hahaha.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 15h

There have been other things.

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 16h

The thread was locked down after people started pointing it out which seemed odd.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

What could possibly go wrong?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Morgan Stanley will now allow crypto investments in any type of account, including retirement accounts.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

I think you mean weirdo ethos

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Unchained Malady 🎃👻⸆⸉ @unchained-malady.bsky.social · 1d

this was a nice dash of spice, great piece as usual

This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

People who go to Harvard medical school aren't normal lol 😂

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

People like seeing other people be bad at games for reasons which may occur to you.

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

I got into an argument with a huge account in June who was promoting a false story. The person finally deleted the viral post. It's like they just hate deleting posts with really high likes & reposts. even though they had dozens of other viral posts.
chloehumbert.substack.com/p/strawmanning

Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

So many of these stories get mish-mashed this way with crap flooding the zone. And it's often promoted by people with big platforms who just can't bring themselves to delete viral posts I guess because of social media addiction, even after they know it's harmful that they've shared it.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

It's a really clear cut abuse of power story that's going to get a lot of traction. Brockman is a sympathetic figure, they reportedly bashed into her car not on video, but them driving away and bashing another car was caught on video. So there's going to be TONS of shit hitting the fan to distract.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

There's a technique for censorship and it's called censorship by noise. You create enough similar decoys and the real story gets buried even if someone tries to search for something they heard about.

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Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social · 1d

There's a technique for censorship and it's called censorship by noise. You create enough similar decoys and the real story gets buried even if someone tries to search for something they heard about.

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