#midterms

What this server has with the tag: posts by people here, and posts from elsewhere that reached it. There's more of it on cyberplace.social, hachyderm.io.

Wuzzy@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social

Oh my! In the elections, ppl could also vote directly on policies that would ban or restrict . Almost all of them succeeded.

This is HUGE and has implications beyond the US, because the AI corporations offer their services globally.
The result doesn’t surprise me that much. Especially in the US, the complete disregard for the environment on display here made many people ANGRY. Good.

stateline.org/2026/11/04/voter
datacentersontheballot.com/

Molly White@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

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Another loss for crypto and AI: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has beaten Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race. Crypto PACs spent $811,000 backing Rogers and an AI group added just over $1 million. El-Sayed has been an outspoken advocate for strong AI and data center regulation.