Writer | Analyst | Narrative Designer | Substack: Cognitive Dissident
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories — Library of America (2025)
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Thaddeus Howze
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Every effort is made without science, without reason, and without concern for the future.
He wanted to extract money from government vendors, so he hired one for the job, and likely took a cut of the proceeds.
This means we will have to paint it again at some point. In the meantime: Scum city!
That’s it. That is the entire point. Big Tech builds a data center in Oklahoma, Big Tech pays for the power lines, the substations, and every infrastructure upgrade its facility demands.
Not your grandmother. Not the family-owned restaurant. Not the farmer running a well pump. Not you.
#EngagementModel
“You wouldn't need to identify users if your service didn't force algorithmic interaction on them for engagement.”
— Thaddeus Howze
A chronological feed of accounts you chose to follow does not require knowing who you are. Verification protects the algorithm from accountability.
NEW LAW IN OKLAHOMA
Data Centers Can't Pass Their Energy Costs to Consumers
The law requires large-load customers adding 75 megawatts or more of demand to sign long-term agreements covering infrastructure costs tied to their projects, rather than spreading those costs across the general rate base.
75 megawatts. That is the threshold. Any data center, AI facility, or crypto mining operation that demands that much power must foot its own bill — every dollar of it — before connecting to Oklahoma’s grid.
Currently these centers are built and local consumers rates rise. Oklahoma says NO.
On May 11, 2026, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 2992, the Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, into law.
The law is designed to protect Oklahoma families, small businesses, and utility customers from rising utility and infrastructure costs tied to AI industries.
On this day in 1920, a mob of 5,000 to 10,000 white people lynched three Black men falsely accused of assault in Duluth, Minnesota.
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