Dara Kerr
@darakerr.bsky.social
Tech Reporter @us.theguardian.com. Tips: dara.kerr@theguardian.com or darakerr.01 on Signal
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I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
honestly can't decide if this auto-response for a reporter email to one of musk's companies is better or worse than the poop emoji
January 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
honestly can't decide if this auto-response for a reporter email to one of musk's companies is better or worse than the poop emoji
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"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." - @darakerr.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee." - @darakerr.bsky.social
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Gonna ask Meryl Streep to give me one of her Oscars
January 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Gonna ask Meryl Streep to give me one of her Oscars
"Welcome to gangster tech regulation!"
I will read every @lopatto.bsky.social piece until the day I die
I will read every @lopatto.bsky.social piece until the day I die
January 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
"Welcome to gangster tech regulation!"
I will read every @lopatto.bsky.social piece until the day I die
I will read every @lopatto.bsky.social piece until the day I die
"Portland’s mayor, Keith Wilson, confirmed the shooting in a statement. 'Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,' he said."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland, police say
Mayor calls shooting ‘deeply troubling’ as police say two people taken to hospital and conditions not known
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM
"Portland’s mayor, Keith Wilson, confirmed the shooting in a statement. 'Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,' he said."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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The White House has unveiled a new website recounting a wildly inventive version of the insurrection. The site says the “massive crowd peacefully” approached the Capitol in an “orderly and spirited" fashion.
And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant." trib.al/VV6RuKa
And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant." trib.al/VV6RuKa
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The White House has unveiled a new website recounting a wildly inventive version of the insurrection. The site says the “massive crowd peacefully” approached the Capitol in an “orderly and spirited" fashion.
And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant." trib.al/VV6RuKa
And, crucially, that "President Trump emerges triumphant." trib.al/VV6RuKa
Despite all that's going in the world right now, I'm sure everyone is curious about what happened with Elon Musk's Tesla diner over the last six months.
Turns out, it's not great.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Turns out, it's not great.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
What happened after Tesla opened a diner in Los Angeles?
The novelty of eating at a diner owned by the richest person in the world seems to have worn off in just a few months
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Despite all that's going in the world right now, I'm sure everyone is curious about what happened with Elon Musk's Tesla diner over the last six months.
Turns out, it's not great.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Turns out, it's not great.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
😑
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
😑
It’s just the third day of 2026
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It’s just the third day of 2026
If you feel like rotting your brain today, you can read our recap on the chaotic year in Elon Musk.
It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic
How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from his White House tenure to an apparent Nazi salute
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you feel like rotting your brain today, you can read our recap on the chaotic year in Elon Musk.
It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's got Big Balls, exploding rocketships, Cybertrucks set aflame, the beginning and end of a Trump bromance, and a lovely quote from Joyce Carol Oates.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I got internal emails between Ben Horowitz and the Las Vegas police for his donation of a Cybertruck fleet.
Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks
Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I got internal emails between Ben Horowitz and the Las Vegas police for his donation of a Cybertruck fleet.
Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tidbits include Elon responding with a sunglasses emoji, Horowitz quoting the rapper Nas, and police requesting “beast mode” be removed from all vehicles
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
nothing makes sense anymore
"TikTok has signed an agreement to create a US joint venture under a deal brokered by President Donald Trump that leaves the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance with direct control of its core business operations in America."
TikTok says Chinese owner will retain core US business
Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to invest in new data security joint venture as part of Trump-brokered deal
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
nothing makes sense anymore
An incredibly important story.
"Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
"Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ICE is tracking pregnant women all the way to the delivery room: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labour and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An incredibly important story.
"Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
"Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"
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Whatever part of the late American empire you want to see, it’s all here: water and power-guzzling AI, tech bros, security goons, brothel owners, wild horses, failed crypto utopias, and Indigenous people trying to preserve water rights and nature while the American West gets ravaged one more time.
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Whatever part of the late American empire you want to see, it’s all here: water and power-guzzling AI, tech bros, security goons, brothel owners, wild horses, failed crypto utopias, and Indigenous people trying to preserve water rights and nature while the American West gets ravaged one more time.
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around.
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Musk is still talking at the Tesla shareholder meeting and he just criticized "the parasitic load of being a public company" which has "grown over time."
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
This from a man who was just awarded a $1 trillion pay package from more than 75% of his public company shareholders.
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF.
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop ‘surge’ to San Francisco
President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him ‘the future of San Francisco is great’
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Fascinating to see the ties tighten between Trump and tech CEOs -- and how they influence policy, like sending troops to SF.
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"It deepens the sense that government works for the powerful, not for the people,” said @issueonereform.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir
Work under way to demolish entire East Wing as president upped cost of new structure from $200m to $300m
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
glad to see silicon valley is financing the destruction of the white house 😑
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
list of donors includes apple, amazon, meta, microsoft and google
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold
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New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...