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Treasurer Stacy Garrity: Pennsylvanians Can Now Save for Education and Disability Related Expenses with Cryptocurrency - PA 529 & PA ABLE gift cards can now be purchased using cryptocurrency

Another case of AI mass surveillance policing charging someone who wasn’t even in the state AI claims they were.

And then forcing the innocent to prove their innocence. Jacob Rockwell does a good job at explaining, with evidence, how unAmerican this AI mass surveillance state stuff really is. This is entirely too common, and I almost can’t believe government officials are just allowing this to continue unabated.

Please don't help the pro-industry propaganda by lecturing people facing gas plants and a dozen data centers in residential neighborhoods about how "we need data centers though" you don't have to preface anything with that in order to talk about the harms.

And don't make me make a third podcast rant on this topic! 

Don't let them tell you we're to blame for monstrosity AI data centers. Don't Wait For Everybody - Episode 029 Chloe Humbert Aug 26, 2025

He ain't gonna just "roll over" data center opposition, he needs to roll on out of our government.

Call your member of congress and your representative US Senators today.

Backlash to this affront to American’s basic rights must be swift and unmistakable.

US energy chief exhorts data center backers to push back against opponents - Reuters By Timothy Gardner Tue, June 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM EDT - AOL U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “We’ll roll over the opposition to data centers faster than we otherwise should” … Wright, a former CEO of oilfield service company Liberty Energy, likened the issue to opposition he faced over the drilling technique for oil and gas known as fracking. “They cannot win and they will not win,” Wright said.

My letter to reps in the house and senate:

You must act. Impeach and remove U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright! It’s an abomination that he is saying he’s going to roll over people who oppose data centers in our community! This is an attack on freedom of speech, property rights, and everything good and decent in America. Chris Wright has no place in our government, and data centers don’t belong anywhere near our neighborhoods.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.

Feel free to copy what you want off me to your reps, edited or verbatim.

My letter to all other representatives in state & local government:

It’s reported in the news that U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said: “We’ll roll over the opposition to data centers faster than we otherwise should.” What is your position on this statement, and what are you planning to do about it? This is an attack on freedom of speech, property rights, and everything good and decent in America. Chris Wright has no place in our government, and data centers don’t belong anywhere near our neighborhoods.

Lawmakers look to taxes on Big Tech to help cover state spending needs - by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA | June 11, 2026 Two options have been floated, including eliminating the state’s sales tax exemption for purchases related to building and maintaining data centers. The commonwealth is projected to miss out on $2 billion in accumulated tax revenue by 2031. The other proposal would extend the state’s 5% gross receipts tax to firms that sell digital ads. That tax could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a year in new revenue, although estimates vary.

My letter to PA state reps:

Eliminate data center tax exemptions.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.

There are other states that have this data center tax exemption.

Everyone should think about who might come to be described as “experiencing mental illness” and what that could mean.

Bloomberg Law - Stephen Miller Said to Drive DOJ Memo Eroding Disability Rights June 23, 2026, 4:10 PM EDT Ben Penn, Celine Castronuovo Miller, the president’s powerful deputy chief of staff, was frustrated that the department’s Civil Rights Division was still reaching settlements compelling states to transfer those experiencing mental illness out of institutions, added the individuals, who spoke anonymously out of fear of retaliation. They said Miller felt DOJ’s agreements—including one reached with South Carolina in December—would increase homelessness and didn’t adhere to President Donald Trump’s July executive order pressuring cities and states to move homeless people into treatment centers.

my latest rant on the "secret" industry of PR online influence operations, product cults, and data center propaganda

Bob Wachter boosting AI hype and the AI bubble via promoting it for healthcare was so not surprising. In light of a new op-ed in The Nation bashing Bob Wachter over his NYTimes piece promoting AI back in January, here’s what I wrote at the time.

Doctor Bob Wachter, pandemic minimizer, now AI booster doing PR for shoddy tech. Who could’ve predicted this? Doctor Bob Wachter is now going on podcasts promoting AI in healthcare as a way to fix the broken American healthcare system with AI slop. Chloe Humbert Feb 08, 2026 In January, for instance, The New York Times ran an op-ed with the headline “Stop Worrying, and Let AI Save Your Life.” The author, Dr. Bob Wachter, is the chair of the department of medicine at the University of California–San Francisco medical school and a proponent of AI’s use in healthcare. In the piece, Wachter touted AI as a way to fix the expensive inefficiencies of the American medical system, which he described as “in desperate need of transformation.” He will not be the last person to make such arguments. As doctors who care for many people from marginalized communities, we find it difficult to be so bullish on AI—and not just because the quality and safety of AI technology is nowhere near guaranteed. We are worried that magical thinking about AI as a path toward real ‘transformation’ in healthcare, as Dr. Wachter suggests, will distract us from the current economic crisis that is crushing our patients. Far from its being a new chapter in how we deliver care, we fear that healthcare will become even more financialized as our systems become more deeply entangled with the AI bubble and the speculative investments that accompany it.

If you’ve paid attention to the covid minimizers you’ll be very familiar with Bob Wachter’s clownish but dangerous antics in the PR space. But if not, or if you want a walk down memory lane, my piece gives a quick summary of all the stupid things he got up to promoting covid carelessness.

And here’s an earlier essay on what I think of AI in healthcare:

Hallucinating chatbot healthcare tech tools hopped up on medical conference hype. What could possibly go wrong? AI hype is so normalized that of course tech tycoons and private equity think that healthcare should run on hype filled apps and downsizing staff. Chloe Humbert Aug 04, 2024 It was also noted that unlike IBM’s Watson which was a tool based on curated medical records, that this new AI healthcare worker replacement tool reportedly “not only pulls from published, peer-reviewed medical journals and textbooks but also will be able to integrate real-time information from global health databases, ongoing clinical trials and medical conferences.” This alone makes this AI in non-compliance with any kind of healthcare regulations anywhere. Using this software in a healthcare setting this way would be a clear cut violation of medical safety regulations of various types. It’s the very epitome of bad science, using research results or data that’s not been reproduced or maybe not even yet peer reviewed. Just chucking unverified information into the mix and using it to make life and death critical medical decisions flies in the face of medical ethics. I have a hard time understanding how a medical doctor could've written about this and not pointed that out.

And here’s podcast (audio with a transcript) where I tell some personal stories including a couple about AI in healthcare.

Probable AI error anecdotes. Don’t Wait For Everybody - Episode 039 Chloe Humbert May 22, 2026

Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now Joseph Cox  · Jun 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM Whereas Roblox hackers were previously focused on stealing players' high value items, some have taken over entire Roblox games, stealing their ownership and Robux in the process. 404 Media  Roblox is much more than a game to many people; it is a business. While Roblox the company maintains the Roblox platform itself, essentially anyone can make a game built on top of it. Some of these games go massively viral, like Grow a Garden, which isn’t just a massively popular Roblox game but a huge video game in its own right. In turn, developers of these games monetize their creations with in-game transactions. Some Roblox developers make millions of dollars and open dedicated studios.   It’s not entirely clear what the hackers planned to do with the games, be that just steal the Robux or try to monetize their popularity. But you can see why a hacker might want to commandeer a game for themselves. Matziaris said that after the hack, Roblox denied the family’s claim over the game because “there is no indication that group ownership was transferred due to your account being compromised.”   When 404 Media contacted Roblox for comment, the company changed its stance. “We were troubled to hear of this specific incident and have restored the game to its owner,” the company said in a statement.