The “Black Mirror” memes are officially coming to life in the server farm.

As of May 1, 2026, the massive build-out of AI infrastructure has turned data centers into high-value fortresses, and firms like Novva Data Centers are leading the charge by deploying $300,000 quadrupeds to hold the line. https://fortune.com/2026/03/17/robot-dog-patrols-data-centers-ai-infrastructure-buildout/   A human guard costs roughly $150k/year with benefits. Operators say a robot …

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Oregon passes rules restricting pumpkin patches, flower festivals and farm dinners, threatening collapse of small agritourism businesses

Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and Development finalized a rule package that rural counties are calling a death sentence. The Farm and Forest Modernization Rules take effect in January 2025. The state says it is about preserving farmland. On the ground, farmers say it is a chokehold. The rules hit …

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Congress hides corporate subsidies in $428B food stamp and farm bill scheme. Coca Cola rakes in $10B yearly from taxpayers through farm bill trickery

US Taxpayers subsidize Coca Cola $10 BILLION dollars every year Congress has been cleverly hiding the funding in the annual “Farm bill” “Congress subsidizes Coca Cola to the tune of about $10,000,000,000 of taxpayer money every single year — We have this scam, otherwise known as the farm bill, which …

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State Farm exec fired over jaw-dropping comments about LA wildfire rate hikes, victims in secret recording.

State Farm executive has been fired after he was secretly recorded alleging that the insurance company hiked rates for California homeowners reeling from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Haden Kirkpatrick, State Farm’s vice president for innovation and venture capital, thought he was on a Tinder date when he started talking …

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EDUCATION: What City Kids Learned on My Farm: ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’

“Overprotected as they are, a lot of city kids are missing out on so many important encounters with material reality: with death or danger or manual labor. These encounters can be unpleasant, even painful. It’s understandable that we want to save our children from them. But they lose something essential …

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