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Grid lock-out

Fortune: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers.

Greater Good Government

Phil Windley nails a use case for MyTerms.

Lesser Good Government

Wired: ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next—ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign.

Good Community Governance

Alex Chalmers:  When Decentralization Fails. And how it succeeds. Pull-quote:

"No quantity of nested enterprises can resolve the production-side concentration of frontier AI. A handful of labs control the most powerful models, and no amount of deployment-side checks and balances can change that. But a thick ecosystem of intermediary institutions on the deployment side creates countervailing power. The labs must satisfy many masters rather than capturing one regulator, or, as the anarchist model would have it, being replaced by a constellation of community-run alternatives that will never match their capabilities."

It's worse than it is prevented from appearing

Reason: All New Cars Could Have Mandatory Surveillance Tech Unless Congress Stops This Mandate: Cars are already spying on drivers. A 2021 law requires manufacturers to install more tracking technology.