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The Cost of the Cloud: Big Tech’s Water Use Is Growing Beyond the Public’s View
The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money.
Let's Imagine a Future Where AI Oligarchs Don't Destroy Rare Books to Feed Their Models
The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’
The White House Is Working to End Decades of American Leadership in Science and Research
New Trump rules place political appointees between researchers and federal grant money. They’re forbidden from appealing to peer review, which is to say ‘science.’
The Cost of the Cloud: Big Tech’s Extractive Energy Demand Is Becoming Everyone Else’s Problem
The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money.
WATCH: Official Statement From Sister of Daniel ‘Des’ Sanchez-Estrada, the Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Moving a Box of Zines
On July 7, 2026, Hyvemind received an official statement and video from Ana Bell following the conviction of her brother, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada.
Iran War Spending Could Have Funded Child Care, Housing and Food—Instead, We Bombed Schoolchildren
What else could the money spent on the Iran War have been used for to benefit the American public? Why does no one in power seem to even be asking?
The ‘Trillion Dollar’ Man: SpaceX and the Great Passive Wealth Transfer
This first installment of The Trillion Dollar Man examines SpaceX’s public listing as a case study in how retirement defaults, index rules and founder-controlled governance can place ordinary workers’ savings inside companies they may never choose or meaningfully influence
Inside the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Long Fight for Digital Freedom
For 36 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has challenged the surveillance, censorship and corporate control shaping modern life online.
The Cage Fight On the White House Lawn: A Masterclass In Stupidity
Trump’s ‘UFC Freedom 250’ celebration felt like a hyperreal living satire in an age where pointing out that things feel like satire has become tiresome.
How Vote Dilution Became the New Fight for Black Political Power
As protections under the Voting Rights Act are stripped back, voter dilution has become one of the clearest threats to Black political power.
There Is An Infrastructure Revolution Happening in Independent Publishing
Inside the Coalitions, Revenue Models and Shared Technologies Redefining Power in Media.
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Destroying Our National Forests
For the first time in 120 years, the U.S. Forest Service is being gutted. A handout to oligarchs, its HQ will be moved to Utah where logging and mineral interests dominate.
How Male ‘Loneliness’ Became a Market for Digital Exploitation
The Making of Deepfake Abuse—and the Lonely Men Behind It.
Scaling Harm: Platforms, Profits and the Rise of AI Sexual Abuse
How AI image tools, platform design and global distribution networks have enabled non-consensual sexual imagery to scale faster than enforcement.
Every Billion Elon Musk Adds to His Wealth Is An Insult to All of Us
The tech-fraud’s endlessly growing lump of monopoly money is a case study for why Western institutions are in terminal collapse.
The Illusion Economy: What Layoffs, Black Friday and AI Have in Common
A look at the growing gap between economics, business + tech headlines and the everyday experience.
Faith in the Machine: On Techno-utopianism, Mortality and the Religion of Innovation
Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.