Weekly Roundup | March 22, 2026
Hope you all are doing well this Sunday! This week, we talked about two very interesting topics: outer space and "artificial intelligence." The essay and the podcast on the topic are linked below.
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Space is the Place(?)
Zooming into the promises of "technological development," with an eye on who it benefits.
Podcast: Google and Elon Musk Want to Put Data Centers in Orbit. Will that Solve AI’s Contradictions?
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt “artificial development,” what it means for our communities, and how
Chaos and Conviviality
No, Putting Data Centers in Space Won’t Make Me Less Mad When You Use “AI”
Dip discusses the intertwining of the space economy with the AI economy. They think both are shit.
Chaos and Conviviality
Marginalia
Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.
- A bunch more can be (and has been) said about space and "AI" as they relate to the economy. There's a critical needle that needs to be threaded that orients around rejecting "development" and "progress," as those are colonial traps at their root. Practically, part of this looks like critically reading the marketing of these industries. So, alongside critical texts like Algorithms of Oppression, The AI Con, and "The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space," it's useful to read work extolling the virtues of space and AI.
Other Stories Worth Knowing
News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.
- Over 5,500 people told to evacuate floods on Oahu's North Shore
- No Kings, No Masters: Building the Resistance: A Call to Mobilize at the March 28 No Kings Rallies
- Evidence as a Weapon of Empire
- The Radical Idea That Children Are People
- Degrees of Separation
- They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout
- What should internationalism mean today? by Victor's Children podcast
- The SAVE America Act before the Senate
- Majority of Americans prefer spread-out communities with big houses
- This Week in Africa
- Homeless Organizing in Oakland and the Wood Street Movie
- How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda
- From Iran to Cuba, Trump’s Sanctions Have Hurt People More Than Governments
- A historic Black community in Maryland is fighting to protect its last wetlands from development
- Downballot Democrats Are Gearing Up for “2010 in Reverse”
