Jane Seidel
@janeseidel.bsky.social
audience / analytics @restofworld.org, women's basketball liker
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Data centers were pitched as engines of growth. In many places, they’re now testing power grids, water supplies, and public tolerance
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout
The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.
restofworld.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Data centers were pitched as engines of growth. In many places, they’re now testing power grids, water supplies, and public tolerance
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544
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How much did Starlink benefit from the close relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump?
Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge
Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How much did Starlink benefit from the close relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump?
Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge
Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge
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The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat? https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
restofworld.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat? https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
Gaza Sky Geeks drew a lot of breathless coverage in the 2010s from all the glossy pubs. Since the war, though, no one has reported on what's really happened to the org --
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gaza Sky Geeks drew a lot of breathless coverage in the 2010s from all the glossy pubs. Since the war, though, no one has reported on what's really happened to the org --
Japan's automated convenience stores are actually run by workers in the Philippines
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October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Japan's automated convenience stores are actually run by workers in the Philippines
restofworld.org/2025/philipp...
restofworld.org/2025/philipp...
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South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
This was good embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...
The journalist cracking the TikTok code
Mia Sato was tired of watching news influencers steal her work.
embedded.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This was good embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...
Every day AI is inserted in a new, dumb way into the things I regularly use. Why does Google Sheets want me to DESCRIBE MY NEW CELLS? Girl I am just trying to type in a number
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every day AI is inserted in a new, dumb way into the things I regularly use. Why does Google Sheets want me to DESCRIBE MY NEW CELLS? Girl I am just trying to type in a number
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We’re thrilled to welcome seasoned media & tech leader Gordon Saft as Rest of World’s next Publisher.
“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”
“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome seasoned media & tech leader Gordon Saft as Rest of World’s next Publisher.
“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”
“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”
I think vlookup could be a beautiful name for a baby girl
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I think vlookup could be a beautiful name for a baby girl
I enjoyed this a lot bidoun.org/articles/hou...
House Arab
I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...
bidoun.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I enjoyed this a lot bidoun.org/articles/hou...
going to London in a few days and I want to feel like im in a PinkPantheress video. any recs
June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
going to London in a few days and I want to feel like im in a PinkPantheress video. any recs
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
it might be worth reshuffling the homepage to slide Life & Style content down a bit further when there is a story as big and intense as the LA protests but what do I know
June 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
it might be worth reshuffling the homepage to slide Life & Style content down a bit further when there is a story as big and intense as the LA protests but what do I know
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an important deep dive into the true environmental costs of running massive AI systems
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
an important deep dive into the true environmental costs of running massive AI systems
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
Palestinians in the West Bank built their own digital maps to help them navigate blockades and checkpoints
restofworld.org/2025/palesti...
restofworld.org/2025/palesti...
Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians
Community-built tech solutions are helping Palestinians navigate blockades and risks in the Israel-occupied territory.
restofworld.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Palestinians in the West Bank built their own digital maps to help them navigate blockades and checkpoints
restofworld.org/2025/palesti...
restofworld.org/2025/palesti...
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“I literally am sitting in front of my computer, putting orders in about seven, eight hours a day.”
Bargain lovers prepare for the end of the de minimis exemption:
restofworld.org/2025/temu-sh...
Bargain lovers prepare for the end of the de minimis exemption:
restofworld.org/2025/temu-sh...
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“I literally am sitting in front of my computer, putting orders in about seven, eight hours a day.”
Bargain lovers prepare for the end of the de minimis exemption:
restofworld.org/2025/temu-sh...
Bargain lovers prepare for the end of the de minimis exemption:
restofworld.org/2025/temu-sh...
do you mind if my note-taking assistant is on the call with us? if not I can disable it no worries
April 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
do you mind if my note-taking assistant is on the call with us? if not I can disable it no worries
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“A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs.”
How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce
New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.
restofworld.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs.”
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In a few weeks, Skype is going the way of other early internet icons like AOL Instant Messenger and Friendster. But before it shuts down, we asked Rest of World readers to share their favorite memories of using the video-calling service
restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...
restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...
When the world connected on Skype
On the eve of its demise, Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world.
restofworld.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In a few weeks, Skype is going the way of other early internet icons like AOL Instant Messenger and Friendster. But before it shuts down, we asked Rest of World readers to share their favorite memories of using the video-calling service
restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...
restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...
I've spent unimaginable amounts of time in the Pittsburgh airport in the last 3 years and they've been "modernizing" it the entire time and I've not seen a single thing ever change. There's 1 outlet in this entire building
April 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've spent unimaginable amounts of time in the Pittsburgh airport in the last 3 years and they've been "modernizing" it the entire time and I've not seen a single thing ever change. There's 1 outlet in this entire building
Not to brag but Canva gave me this today..... Sooo.....
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not to brag but Canva gave me this today..... Sooo.....
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The bees are dying at an alarming rate www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...
Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says.
Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.
www.cbsnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The bees are dying at an alarming rate www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...