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your auntifa liza @ [email protected]

the Ellisons’ #Oracle mafia are behind

- the killing of CBS tv and radio - the #Paramount - #WarnerBrothers merger - more than 30,000 laid-off tech workers since 2025 - the #Stargate capitalist welfare grift that includes #NVidia #OpenAI #Softbank - the herpes-like spread of ecocidal data centers

if you’ve been waiting for a sign of the #AI implosion, this is the official beginning.

The Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that so-called “geofence” requests issued by police departments to Big Tech companies for data from cellphones located within a certain geographical boundary at a specific time are considered a “search” under the Fourth Amendment. In other words, cops are supposed to get a warrant from a judge before demanding that a cellphone company hand over the location data attached to all of its users who happened to be present near the scene of an alleged crime.

The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing Boing covered the skeptics in 2021. The company kept building, and there's now a 148-meter tower in Rudong, Jiangsu doing exactly that with a nearby wind farm.

Surplus wind power hoists 35-ton blocks cast from recycled concrete and industrial aggregate toward the top. When the grid needs electricity again, the blocks descend and spin the generators. The tower stores 100 megawatt-hours and can deliver 25 megawatts for about four hours, at a targeted round-trip efficiency above 80 percent, with a 35-year lifespan and no chemical degradation.