LAshton 🌱
@leoashton.bsky.social
Bunny companion, animal liberation, human rights, artist on west coast. Wine & tech industry escapee. He/him #Brandalism leoashton.net
Kinda amazing how data centers can make a big problem catastrophic. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Kinda amazing how data centers can make a big problem catastrophic. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
When you can’t defend your business model or practices you attack the victim, their family, and apparently anyone that had contact with them. Silicon Valley only cares about extracting as much $$$ as they can.
“The chatbot tells you to kill yourself because you violated the TOS” is fucking diabolical.
Why does this company exist.
Why does this company exist.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
When you can’t defend your business model or practices you attack the victim, their family, and apparently anyone that had contact with them. Silicon Valley only cares about extracting as much $$$ as they can.
The crisis is that these people couldn’t care less about you, if anything to Altman, jony ivy, and laurene jobs, you (and the planet) are just collateral damage, a thing to break on their way to world domination. Billionaires always say their idea will improve life. gizmodo.com/openai-is-ha...
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
gizmodo.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The crisis is that these people couldn’t care less about you, if anything to Altman, jony ivy, and laurene jobs, you (and the planet) are just collateral damage, a thing to break on their way to world domination. Billionaires always say their idea will improve life. gizmodo.com/openai-is-ha...
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Yes Larry Summers is rightly denounced for his Epstein ultra-creepitude and being a stupid sexist bastard in his academic positions, but he doesn't get enough denunciation for being a scheming deregulatory asshole who buddied with Wall Street to fuck up not only our economy but that of the world.
The latest cache of Epstein emails have finally brought down Summers. But setting aside Larry the Lecher, this is the moment to reveal how he used his power not just to abuse women but to abuse the planet. His victims number in the millions. No kidding! #EpsteinFiles #LarrySummers
Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo
Forgive me, but I have to send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers.
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yes Larry Summers is rightly denounced for his Epstein ultra-creepitude and being a stupid sexist bastard in his academic positions, but he doesn't get enough denunciation for being a scheming deregulatory asshole who buddied with Wall Street to fuck up not only our economy but that of the world.
Just so much to unpack, not least of which is tech CEOs inability to care about anything other than money extraction but JFC facial recognition of users, of children? Read the room asshat. futurism.com/artificial-i...
CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an "Opportunity"
Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki says his game's longstanding issues with child predators are an opportunity for growth.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just so much to unpack, not least of which is tech CEOs inability to care about anything other than money extraction but JFC facial recognition of users, of children? Read the room asshat. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Influencers have weaponized reasonable skepticism, for profit. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Influencers have weaponized reasonable skepticism, for profit. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Privacy, human rights, the dignity of users — these aren’t just marketing lines. Fire Tim Cook. apple.news/AggqFFldxTnq...
Timothy Smith: Fire Tim Cook — Apple 3.0
Tim Cook should be fired. Not because Apple is struggling — it isn’t — but because its CEO has turned the company’s loudly advertised “values” into theater.
apple.news
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Privacy, human rights, the dignity of users — these aren’t just marketing lines. Fire Tim Cook. apple.news/AggqFFldxTnq...
The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
Stop Trump's Extinction Plan
The Endangered Species Act is the United States' most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration just proposed new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperi...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organizations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
More than 300 lobbyists for food and farming organizations have participated at this year’s United Nations climate talks, known as COP30, taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where agribusiness is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
Meta and zuck are scum. time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Explosive Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Meta and zuck are scum. time.com/7336204/meta...
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Steve Pearce, Trump's nominee to lead the BLM, might be the single biggest threat Western public lands have ever seen.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Steve Pearce, Trump's nominee to lead the BLM, might be the single biggest threat Western public lands have ever seen.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
Have the tech CEOs crossed the line from enabling to collusion yet? Just thinking about those titans of industry pre 1940 and soon after.
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Have the tech CEOs crossed the line from enabling to collusion yet? Just thinking about those titans of industry pre 1940 and soon after.
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So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
This guy has been pretty clear who he is and what he stands for. How long do the enablers and others that assist him get to pretend otherwise?
Again…
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This guy has been pretty clear who he is and what he stands for. How long do the enablers and others that assist him get to pretend otherwise?
The tech bros have been buying their bully puppet, and he is all too willing to do their bidding.
This frees up Big Tech to move from lobbying states to lift all AI regulations to punishing any lawmaker who dares to try and stop them:
prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...
prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The tech bros have been buying their bully puppet, and he is all too willing to do their bidding.
What a blast from the past to find @starckclub.bsky.social on here. I exhibited work on the walls of the club in the late 80s, and did some runway modeling for a clothing designer around that time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What a blast from the past to find @starckclub.bsky.social on here. I exhibited work on the walls of the club in the late 80s, and did some runway modeling for a clothing designer around that time.
In states that ban abortion, patients with chronic conditions and other high-risk pregnancies often have nowhere to turn.
They enter pregnancy sick and are expected to get sicker. Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
They enter pregnancy sick and are expected to get sicker. Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In states that ban abortion, patients with chronic conditions and other high-risk pregnancies often have nowhere to turn.
They enter pregnancy sick and are expected to get sicker. Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
They enter pregnancy sick and are expected to get sicker. Yet lawmakers who wrote the bans have refused to create exceptions for health risks. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Two murderous dictators pat each other on the back, laugh and all the billionaires applaud. What a country.
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Two murderous dictators pat each other on the back, laugh and all the billionaires applaud. What a country.
No amount of charity Jensen Huang and his foundation does will be able to remove the stain left by his business deals and dining at a state dinner to honor a murderous dictator. Silicon Valley's tech CEOs have no shame.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
No amount of charity Jensen Huang and his foundation does will be able to remove the stain left by his business deals and dining at a state dinner to honor a murderous dictator. Silicon Valley's tech CEOs have no shame.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Tim Cook was there, but for a guy that long pretended to care about human rights, that had posters of Kennedy and MLK on his office wall, it's infuriating. There is absolutely no business case for attending a state dinner honoring a murderous dictator.
everlasting shame on all these people
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Tim Cook was there, but for a guy that long pretended to care about human rights, that had posters of Kennedy and MLK on his office wall, it's infuriating. There is absolutely no business case for attending a state dinner honoring a murderous dictator.
I wouldn't doubt that every single one of these billionaires would pay to have someone bone sawed if they got in their way. Also at the dinner was the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang. $$$ trumps everything for these people.
Elon Musk is at the White House for the private dinner for the Saudi Crown Prince.
Also present: David Ellison of Paramount.
Also present: David Ellison of Paramount.
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I wouldn't doubt that every single one of these billionaires would pay to have someone bone sawed if they got in their way. Also at the dinner was the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang. $$$ trumps everything for these people.
A recent report reveals how fake nutrition experts on social media are putting millions of people at risk. vegnews.com/tiktok-nutri...
Who’s Really Behind TikTok’s Nutrition Advice? Spoiler: It’s Not Doctors
A recent report reveals how fake nutrition experts on social media are putting millions of people at risk.
vegnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A recent report reveals how fake nutrition experts on social media are putting millions of people at risk. vegnews.com/tiktok-nutri...
A decent primer on one of my favorite artists, no mention of JG producing the original demo tape for White Zombie though. Discovering his Scraping Foetus off the Wheel 'Nail' album at Bill's Records in Dallas in the 80s was a revelation- opened a world of music. daily.bandcamp.com/lists/suck-o...
Suck on This, Squarehead: A Guide to Foetus
Enter the wonderful and frightening world of James George Thirlwell
daily.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A decent primer on one of my favorite artists, no mention of JG producing the original demo tape for White Zombie though. Discovering his Scraping Foetus off the Wheel 'Nail' album at Bill's Records in Dallas in the 80s was a revelation- opened a world of music. daily.bandcamp.com/lists/suck-o...
How Silicon Valley embraced monopoly and fascism. When I moved here 28 years ago I read Cyberselfish as I saw initial stages of what was happening in big tech and its acceleration into power without accountability.
We had Tim Wu on the podcast to talk about his new book The Age of Extraction, whether the degradation of Big Tech was fated or not, and why the incipient idealism about the Internet ended up being so wrong. Great conversation, listen in!
www.organizedmoney.fm/p/big-tech-a...
www.organizedmoney.fm/p/big-tech-a...
Big Tech and Fascism
Legal scholar, professor, and author Tim Wu talks about his new book, how platforms shape commerce and society, why the new extraction economy is caustic, and how we can fix it.
www.organizedmoney.fm
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
How Silicon Valley embraced monopoly and fascism. When I moved here 28 years ago I read Cyberselfish as I saw initial stages of what was happening in big tech and its acceleration into power without accountability.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...
We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...
SIREN and CAIR-CA v. San Jose
The San Jose Police Department has blanketed the city’s roadways with nearly five hundred Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The police department uses this unblinking surveillance network to
www.eff.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...
We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...