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W404
May 6, 2026· Issue 4

The AI super PAC is paying TikTok influencers

OpenAI and Palantir's super PAC, Leading the Future, is paying TikTok influencers to push pro-AI deregulation framed as anti-China content. Affiliated PAC American Mission ran a Texas primary ad. The W3 surveillance story has a sequel: same labs, different surface.

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W303
April 29, 2026· Issue 3

We rebuilt the paper. And an AI lab is hiring to watch you.

A threat-intelligence firm (10a Labs) is hiring researchers for a project they call Data Center Watch -- tracking communities fighting data centers, for clients that include 'frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, and Fortune 10 companies.' Same week, we shipped the redesigned site.

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W202
April 22, 2026· Issue 2

Festus voters fired every council member who approved the data center

Festus, Missouri voters ousted every incumbent on the city council one week after the council approved a $6 billion data center development with CRG. Oakley, California became the first Bay Area city to pause new data centers. The wins are real and they are accelerating.

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