Chloe
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Scranton, Pennsylvania. Paper is the technology of the future. https://chloehumbert.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/chloehumbert
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My Letter to the Editor was published in the Scranton Times-Tribune.
www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/09/08/l...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR PUBLISHED: September 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM EDT Editor: It's all over the news that wherever these big data centers turn up, electricity and water bills skyrocket for the communities. Yet Rep. Rob Bresnahan keeps parroting the claim that monster data center palaces will magically unleash affordability when all evidence is to the contrary. Rep. Bresnahan's reply letter to me about data center projects regurgitated PA Senator Rosemary Brown's talking point from the Archbald hearing falsely claiming monstrosity data centers are needed for photo backups and banking services. But the tech industry openly admits it's the AI that requires huge data center campuses. The world's banks have used computers for decades without huge "clusters". Backups to the cloud take minuscule processing compared to what's needed for Large Language Model type AI companions that flatter users or for chatbots that conjure up fake citation footnotes. Bresnahan is overpromising jobs at data centers because by now everyone knows data centers don't need lots of people. Besides, AI technology is being marketed to CEOs as a way to eliminate the need for humans! They're promising an "AI jobs apocalypse" to employers looking to downsize payrolls. Either AI makes jobs or eliminates jobs, you can't have it both ways. Bresnahan bragged about a government joint venture with Blackstone. But Blackstone is despised for their business practices in real estate and rentals. Why would we welcome that boondoggle? Bresnahan seems to think I would like government rushing through environmental rules because politicians seem to think "environment" is just a political buzzword when what this means to me is the surroundings where I live and not wanting my home enveloped by unbearable noise and toxic fumes of data centers. AI booster politicians invested in tech companies think we're not tech savvy here in NEPA and won't know what's up. But I'm not fooled. Chloe Humbert, Scranton
I'm sick of being called a deplorable.
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The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
We've been here before with the comparisons.
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The dark side of marketing seemingly “Light” cigarettes: successful images and failed fact

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The international headquarters of B&W's parent firm, British American Tobacco, counselled that new marketing approaches should “create brands and products which reassure consumers, by answering to their needs. Overall marketing policy will be such that we maintain faith and confidence in the smoking habit . . . All work in this area [communications] should be directed towards providing consumer reassurance about cigarettes and the smoking habit . . . by claimed low deliveries, by the perception of low deliveries and by the perception of `mildness'. Furthermore, advertising for low delivery or traditional brands should be constructed in ways so as not to provoke anxiety about health, but to alleviate it, and enable the smoker to feel assured about the habit and confident in maintaining it over time” [emphasis in original].

Policing deceptive practices
What an odd PR move to promote monarchy.
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"
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under-babied
Dr Oz: "Turns out that about 1/3 families don't have the number of babies they desire. They're under-babied. So this president committed to address that during the campaign and he's delivering on that today."
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In New Jersey a bill has been introduced to make sure data centers pay for electricity they use. This power surcharge would go toward modernizing the state’s electric grid.
This is not surprising, or it shouldn't be, many disabled people warned of the eugenics. In 2020 they plotted to make kids sick on purpose and withheld available treatment for covid
from the elderly.
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The Swedish Deception - Report
Internal emails from FOI's question the integrity of the Swedish strategy
counterdisinformationproject.substack.com
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Headlines from David Brooks, 2020-2025
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Hey Bluesky.

Because I see them everywhere now: Videos with a Sora watermarks or with the Sora logo aren’t real. It’s an app like TikTok but everything is AI trash. Viral examples: the old lady feeding a bear or the lady on Mount Everest who buried her dog. They are spreading to all other apps now.
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Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.
Curious to hear your perspective on Sora. It seems to be the only real (and terrifying) AI product to hit the market lately. How much mileage are they going to get out of this thing that needs to be regulated out of existence?
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People nowadays don’t listen to enough Woody Guthrie
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“Physician payments” might make this sound less serious than it is.

150M Americans are covered by Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), close to half of all healthcare coverage. 98% of hospitals accept CMS, and the majority rely on it because it’s the biggest insurer by far. (And healthcare is 20% of US GDP.)
Samuel Douglass is 27 and an elected state senator in Vermont. Joe Maligno is reportedly an attorney in his 30s.