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Gerry McGovern

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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99th Day: A Warning About Technology:
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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 2d ago

"The guide wire felt wrong. My hands, trained over two decades and thousands of procedures, sensed a resistance the navigation screen denied. The system’s three-dimensional reconstruction, a confident render of the patient’s sinus anatomy, showed a clear path. My proprioception, however, suggested I was about to perforate bone. I paused, withdrew the instrument, and re-evaluated with conventional fluoroscopy. The screen had been mistaken."

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ai/the-ai-adverse-event-problem-nobody-is-talking-about/

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 3d ago

In order to achieve our 'Green' Transition, we will need to mine more copper in the next 25 years than in all of previous history.

We will cause over 500 billion tons of toxic waste in the process. That's roughly three Mt Everests' of waste.

Not to mention the massive quantities of toxic wastewater and huge amounts of fossil fuel energy required to process.

Copper mining is among the most environmentally destructive forms of mining.

We label this ecocide green and clean and renewable

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 3d ago

US military families face waves of AI videos meant to sow discord and tug at heartstrings

Fake videos of soldiers grieving over fallen friends and AI-generated combat scenes are reaching families of deployed U.S. troops.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/iran-war-misinformation-military-families/

AI is the destroyer of truth and the feeder of hate and fear. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do by Big Tech.

The Big Tech business model is hate and fear, and a world of barely functioning addicts that it will use to do its will.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 3d ago

"Women usually go back to work a day or two immediately after childbirth to earn a living in the landfills. They often leave their children with their other children of school-going age to take care of them (13-17 years). The moment the children are of age (13-17 years), they are expected to fend for themselves; as a result, they drop out of school and start working the gate at the landfills."

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/lead-exposure-from-e-waste-a-case-study-of-dandora-dumpsite-nairobi-kenya

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 4d ago

Such an evil scam on so many levels

"The altcoin damage is even uglier. Ethereum fell to $2,025 from around $3,400. Solana went from $260 to $85. And Trump’s own memecoin, the Official Trump token that peaked near $73 just before he took office, now trades at $3, a 96% wipeout. The First Lady's coin has fared worse still, losing 99%."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/03/09/thank-you-mr-president-trump-oil-price-shock-crashes-bitcoin-price/

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 4d ago

"More than 140 Indigenous people, led by the Middle Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement (MMIMX), have occupied the Brazilian federal Indigenous agency FUNAI’s regional office in the Amazonian city of Altamira to demand the suspension of Belo Sun’s mining license for its “Volta Grande” gold mine on the banks of the Xingu River."

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0311-amazonian-indigenous-women-occupy-federal-agency-to-demand-suspension-of-belo-sun-minings-license

20 ton of poisoned earth for one gold ring.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · 5d ago

Thailand to send 284 tonnes of e-waste back to US

Containers found at Laem Chabang were falsely claimed to hold scrap metal from Haiti

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3213938/thailand-to-send-284-tonnes-of-ewaste-back-to-us

This happens all over the world. There is a growing e-waste crisis and the Global North solution is to dump e-waste in the Global South by mis-labelling and all sorts of other tricks. Often, e-waste is sent as "second hand" equipment. The whole tech industry is built on a growing cesspit of toxic waste.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 07, 2026

"Enabled emissions are the additional greenhouse gases released when AI, IoT, and cloud computing make more fossil fuel production possible.
Fossil fuel companies use these tools to turn high-risk operations—fracking, offshore projects, deep reserves—into data-driven decisions, driving faster exploration and far greater fossil fuel output."

https://www.enabledemissions.com/

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 07, 2026

US Data Centers Could Require as Much Water as New York City by 2030, Study Shows

"Peak daily water demand—the amount required during the hottest days of the year—for a large state-of-the-art data center using evaporative cooling can often exceed 1 million gallons per day, and for some planned facilities it may reach 8 million gallons per day."

https://gizmodo.com/us-data-centers-could-require-as-much-water-as-new-york-city-by-2030-study-shows-2000730811

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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 07, 2026

"With data centers in the mix, potentially contributing to air pollution, residents could feel health impacts if they live within five miles of the facility — maybe even 20 miles."

"Data centers can contribute to fine particulate matter, a type of air pollution composed of tiny microscopic droplets filled with toxic chemicals. Breathing this type of pollution can lead to respiratory issues, such as asthma, lung cancer and premature death."

https://mirrorindy.org/data-center-health-pollution-environment-impacts-indianapolis-marion-county/

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 06, 2026

Mining copper is environmentally devastating

In 1920, mining 1 ton of copper caused 30 ton of toxic waste

In 2020, mining 1 ton of copper caused 180 ton of toxic waste

Since 1900, the energy required to produce a unit of copper is up 16 fold.
The water required has doubled.

We need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years than in all of previous history.

In 2020, a data center might have used 5,000 tons of copper.

An AI data center can require up to 50,000 tons of copper

'Green'?

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 05, 2026

Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

"The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports. The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the unsuspecting rural community that Musk chose to build the data center in, can’t provide the electricity the facility needs."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-facility-mordor

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 04, 2026

Through relentless public pressure from communities, Microsoft has been forced to terminate non-disclosure agreements with four west Michigan communities where it is pursuing data center development, releasing municipal officials from their promise not to disclose details about its plans.

Classic 1984 speak:

"As part of Microsoft's commitment to work openly and constructively with the communities where we seek to operate, we have decided to terminate this agreement"

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/03/03/microsoft-terminates-nda-non-disclosure-confidentiality-michigan-data-centers/88949102007/

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 02, 2026

"Human activity has grown to challenge planetary limits, yet the official solution to any problem that arises is to grow more. Like fish unable to live anywhere but in water, our leaders find it hard to imagine any way of life outside the Growth paradigm. Production and consumption, income and expenditure define our lives."

https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/paradigm-instead-growth.html

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Mar 01, 2026

"Public disclosure of whether a data center may be coming into a community would be mandated under a Florida bill, which cleared the Senate floor unanimously Feb. 26. It's part of Florida’s overall push to regulate data centers."

https://eu.palmbeachdailynews.com/story/news/state/2026/02/27/florida-moves-to-require-disclosure-on-new-data-center-locations/88900157007/

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 27, 2026

AI data centers across South Korea could consume more electricity and water than the country is projected to supply over the next decade.

The 10 largest projected AI data centers alone would require 5.26 gigawatts of electricity and 126 million liters of water per day.

Based on average household consumption, that level of electricity could power about 21 million people, while the water usage would meet the annual needs of roughly 640,000 residents.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/25/ai-data-center-electricity-water-consume-projection/9991772071954/

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 26, 2026

“Our findings show that current AI systems can treat confident medical language as true by default, even when it’s clearly wrong. A fabricated recommendation in a discharge note can slip through. It can be repeated as if it were standard care. For these models, what matters is less whether a claim is correct than how it is written.”

https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/articles/feeding-ai-bad-info-can-cause-catastrophic-health-guidance-study

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 26, 2026

"I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs." Every word is a lie."

A short while later:

"When I asked about the best hot dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing."

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-gemini-i-tried-making-lie-about-me-2026-2

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 24, 2026

"It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them. Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millions. These offers dwarf the value of their properties, but farmers have refused to put a price on the lands that they love most."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/im-not-for-sale-farmers-refuse-to-take-millions-in-data-center-deals/

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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 24, 2026

Altman lays bare Big Tech's plan for human genocide and eugenics.

"Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’"

Humans and Nature are expensive. They consume a lot of energy and materials. AI is much more deserving of resources.

This plan to wipe out most life on earth and replace it by an elite 'served' by AI and robots, is a long, long time in the planning by the tech bros.

We are so easily bought and sold by some cheap fun and convenience.

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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Feb 23, 2026
Malaysia intercepts over 186,000 kg of illegal e-waste amid import ban The shipment are said to be over RM2.15 million (US$550,000) in value and found to be entering the country from Canada, Spain and Croatia, being falsely declared as copper concentrate. The Global North constantly dumps its e-waste in the Global South https://www.eco-business.com/news/malaysia-intercepts-over-186000-kg-of-illegal-e-waste-amid-import-ban/
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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Jan 31, 2026
"As organizations brace for another year of cyber risk, Experian’s 2026 Data Breach Industry Forecast paints a stark picture of what lies ahead: a threat environment increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, enriched by oceans of stolen data, and edging closer to technologies once considered science fiction." https://www.cutoday.info/THE-feature/A-New-Fraud-Era-Is-Taking-Shape-And-It-s-Smarter-Faster-And-Harder-To-See
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Jan 28, 2026
A.I. Was Supposed to “Revolutionize” Work. In Many Offices, It’s Only Creating Chaos. So he posted a third “article” on his own LinkedIn account in which the AI described how our company collaborated with the CDC on researching a certain disease and published a groundbreaking study. Then, according to the article, we apparently went into underserved communities and funded a bunch of clinics and immunizations. None of this happened. https://slate.com/life/2026/01/work-artificial-intelligence-ai-office-chaos.html
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Jan 28, 2026
"An expert has warned that the large-scale smuggling of electronic waste (e-waste) into Malaysia is a public health emergency, with consequences that extend beyond environmental pollution." When it can, the Global North dumps its e-waste in the Global South https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/01/1366057/toxic-trade-expert-raises-concern-over-public-health-risks-linked-e
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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Jan 09, 2026

So Big Tech has started undressing our children so as to make even more profit off them.

Where are the Irish, UK and USA governments? An Irish Minister blames users. While the EU is complaining about Twitter on Twitter.

Big Tech own our governments. They own our politicians.

It's all about innovation and progress. Here we are having our children stripped of their rights and clothes to be sold for Big Tech profit. Here we are, with women facing an onslaught of Big Tech misogyny.

Toxic men.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Dec 05, 2025
Bitcoin is gangsterism Bitcoin Miners Hunted After Stealing $1 Billion of Electricity From Malaysia Grid Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/bitcoin-btc-miners-hunted-after-stealing-1-billion-power-from-malaysia-grid
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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Nov 19, 2025
Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center. https://www.roanokerambler.com/google-strives-keep-data-center-botetourt-county-water-use-secret-judge-orders-records-released/ All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use
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Gerry McGovern
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Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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Gerry McGovern
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green

Author of '99th Day: A Warning About Technology'.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green · Apr 10, 2025

Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon, Spain use water more efficiently.

That's the same Amazon that is using huge quantities of water for its data centers in Aragon, Spain

The same super-secretive Amazon that does its very best to hide its water usage figures from the public.

Welcome to the world of Big Tech: grifters, con artists and scammers. Mafia-like thugs who swear local governments to silence.

Follow:
@tunubesecamirio@masto.es

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water

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