Sit down with me today to dissect the harms of AI data centres on a micro and macro level, looking at their local, racial, environmental, and social impacts. From Sophia and Cinzia promoting Google Gemini for AI pasta recipes, to Open AI taking influencers on a ChatGPT nature retreat, to the Save Brick Lane coalition, let’s unpack the current AI landscape and the powerhouses behind this force.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: whatzaraloves

TikTok: whatzaraloves6

Podcast: Taboo on the Bus

Links:

What is a Data Centre?: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-data-center

Save Brick Lane: https://www.savebricklane.net/press/press-cuttings

Oxford University Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKa1Z-Z6xOQ&t=2s 

Capital B News:

https://capitalbnews.org/musk-xai-memphis-black-neighborhood-pollution/

https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-black-communities-south/

References:

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

https://theconversation.com/how-brick-lane-became-the-latest-neighbourhood-to-battle-against-a-data-centre-290200

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/scotland-lanarkshire-village-ai-datacentre

https://www.regen.co.uk/insights/the-data-centre-boom-has-a-justice-problem

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/new-york-moratorium-ai-datacenters

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/slough-famous-the-office-datacentres-locals-hub-europe

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/technology/article/what-is-a-data-center/&ved=2ahUKEwi50aGfja-WAxWPRkEAHcJqIlsQFnoECCEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw369MGsyZUy8KdDhAtwXqx-

[Mini Bus version. Long episode is also live]

Sit down with me today to dissect the harms of AI data centres on a micro and macro level, looking at their local, racial, environmental, and social impacts. From Sophia and Cinzia promoting Google Gemini for AI pasta recipes, to Open AI taking influencers on a ChatGPT nature retreat, to the Save Brick Lane coalition, let’s unpack the current AI landscape and the powerhouses behind this force.

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: whatzaraloves

TikTok: whatzaraloves6

Podcast: Taboo on the Bus

Links:

What is a Data Centre?: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-data-center

Save Brick Lane: https://www.savebricklane.net/press/press-cuttings

Oxford University Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKa1Z-Z6xOQ&t=2s 

Capital B News:

https://capitalbnews.org/musk-xai-memphis-black-neighborhood-pollution/

https://capitalbnews.org/data-centers-black-communities-south/

References:

https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

https://theconversation.com/how-brick-lane-became-the-latest-neighbourhood-to-battle-against-a-data-centre-290200

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/scotland-lanarkshire-village-ai-datacentre

https://www.regen.co.uk/insights/the-data-centre-boom-has-a-justice-problem

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/new-york-moratorium-ai-datacenters

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/slough-famous-the-office-datacentres-locals-hub-europe

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/technology/article/what-is-a-data-center/&ved=2ahUKEwi50aGfja-WAxWPRkEAHcJqIlsQFnoECCEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw369MGsyZUy8KdDhAtwXqx-

[Epsiode starts at: 11:18]

Meta have immersed themselves into the fashion realm with a line of trendy smart glasses and line-up of ‘IT-girls’ to promote the launch. Surveillance meets fashion in this collab, and we’re going to start seeing every-day recording and documentation become ‘normal’ in our society, or will we even notice?  

Sit down with me today to discuss how these glasses pose threat particularly to women, children, and minority groups, and how smart yet harmful it is of Meta to target women with this launch. I’ll also give my thoughts on how I think the normalisation of these glasses in public will alter everyone’s behaviour from a lense of ‘performing for an audience’. Think of the way in which people don’t dance in the club anymore because of the fear of being recorded, now apply that to stepping outside. 

Let me know what your thoughts are on Meta glasses going mainstream?

Find me online:

Instagram – Whatzaraloves

TikTok – Whatzaraloves

Podcast – Taboo on the Bus

Email: [email protected]

Reading list of articles mentioned:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/21/meta-smartglasses-child-filmed-ai-risk-technology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

[Mini Bus Version - Full podcast episode also live]

Meta have immersed themselves into the fashion realm with a line of trendy smart glasses and line-up of ‘IT-girls’ to promote the launch. Surveillance meets fashion in this collab, and we’re going to start seeing every-day recording and documentation become ‘normal’ in our society, or will we even notice?  

Sit down with me today to discuss how these glasses pose threat particularly to women, children, and minority groups, and how smart yet harmful it is of Meta to target women with this launch. I’ll also give my thoughts on how I think the normalisation of these glasses in public will alter everyone’s behaviour from a lense of ‘performing for an audience’. Think of the way in which people don’t dance in the club anymore because of the fear of being recorded, now apply that to stepping outside. 

Let me know what your thoughts are on Meta glasses going mainstream?

Find me online:

Instagram – Whatzaraloves

TikTok – Whatzaraloves

Podcast – Taboo on the Bus

Email: [email protected]

Reading list of articles mentioned:

⁠https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/21/meta-smartglasses-child-filmed-ai-risk-technology⁠

⁠https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o⁠

⁠https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai⁠ 

⁠https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo⁠

Sit down with me OFF the bus to dissect our consumption habits when it comes to viral food trends and ‘little treats’. In a backdrop of economic insecurity and the cost-of-living crisis, generation Z are not purchasing as many luxury material goods. In turn, we are watching the status of foods like the ‘dot cake’ take the place of ‘luxury’ as for many, it is the highest point of access, desire, and justification. Let’s dissect it together and take a look at what this means for gen-z.

Instagram: Whatzaraloves

Tiktok: whatzaraloves6

Email: [email protected]

award vote (at the bottom): https://www.bcreator.co.uk/awards/vote/

Reading list / references:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2024/07/17/designer-fashion-houses-are-struggling-in-the-first-half-of-2024-heres-why/

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/toleho/article/1610640

https://www.forbes.com/sites/claraludmir/2024/04/25/why-fashion-retailers-are-opening-branded-cafs-and-restaurants/

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/broken-plate-2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20250603-housing-affordability-crisis-kyla-scanlon-katty-kay-interview

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmyouth/cost-living-crisis-young-people/report.html

https://www.vogue.com/article/how-should-brands-navigate-gen-z-economic-nihilism

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michalis-Skordoulis/publication/381656145_Perceptions_of_environmental_sustainability_and_luxury_influences_on_organic_food_buying_behavior_among_Millennials_and_Generation_Z_in_Greece/links/66795fcc1dec0c3c6f9fbb94/Perceptions-of-environmental-sustainability-and-luxury-influences-on-organic-food-buying-behavior-among-Millennials-and-Generation-Z-in-Greece.pdf

Full deep-dive episode OFF the bus is also live!

Sit with me on the bus to dissect our consumption habits when it comes to viral food trends and ‘little treats’. In a backdrop of economic insecurity and the cost-of-living crisis, generation Z are not purchasing as many luxury material goods. In turn, we are watching the status of foods like the ‘dot cake’ take the place of ‘luxury’ as for many, it is the highest point of access, desire, and justification. Let’s dissect it together and take a look at what this means for gen-z.

Instagram: Whatzaraloves

Tiktok: whatzaraloves6

Email: [email protected]

Reading list / references:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2024/07/17/designer-fashion-houses-are-struggling-in-the-first-half-of-2024-heres-why/

https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/toleho/article/1610640

https://www.forbes.com/sites/claraludmir/2024/04/25/why-fashion-retailers-are-opening-branded-cafs-and-restaurants/

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/broken-plate-2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20250603-housing-affordability-crisis-kyla-scanlon-katty-kay-interview

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmyouth/cost-living-crisis-young-people/report.html

https://www.vogue.com/article/how-should-brands-navigate-gen-z-economic-nihilism

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michalis-Skordoulis/publication/381656145_Perceptions_of_environmental_sustainability_and_luxury_influences_on_organic_food_buying_behavior_among_Millennials_and_Generation_Z_in_Greece/links/66795fcc1dec0c3c6f9fbb94/Perceptions-of-environmental-sustainability-and-luxury-influences-on-organic-food-buying-behavior-among-Millennials-and-Generation-Z-in-Greece.pdf

[full deep-dive long episode is live]

Social media is a breeding ground for poor-shaming working-class mockery, and I’ve been collecting evidence for the past 4 months to prove that. What we are seeing is the re-invention of the harmful working-class stereotypes present in early 2000s/10s media regurgitated in our algorithms right now. We can look at how deeply intertwined identity and consumption habits to begin understanding why social media creates a hierarchy of lifestyles that shames those as the bottom and analyse the key theme of ‘distinction’ driving a lot of the hate and ‘humour’. 

I’ve pulled examples from my ongoing to prove just how social media fuels and reinvents the mockery of the working class.

Email: [email protected]

Insta – whatzaraloves

TikTok – whatzaraloves6

YouTube: Whatzaraloves

Podcast: Taboo on the Bus

Kyey references:

Books:

Chavs by Owen Jones

Journals:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5153/sro.1814

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437231185966

https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/output/3176889

Articles:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/chav-caricature-comeback-tiktok-2020/

https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/09/02/how-the-medias-selective-idealisation-of-the-working-class-perpetuates-inequality/

https://consequence.net/2025/12/ricky-gervais-working-classes-mock-mortality/

Social media is a breeding ground for poor-shaming working-class mockery, and I’ve been collecting evidence for the past 4 months to prove that. What we are seeing is the re-invention of the harmful working-class stereotypes present in early 2000s/10s media regurgitated in our algorithms right now. We can look at how deeply intertwined identity and consumption habits to begin understanding why social media creates a hierarchy of lifestyles that shames those as the bottom and analyse the key theme of ‘distinction’ driving a lot of the hate and ‘humour’. 

I’ve pulled examples from my ongoing to prove just how social media fuels and reinvents the mockery of the working class.

Email: [email protected]

Insta – whatzaraloves

TikTok – whatzaraloves6

YouTube: Whatzaraloves

Podcast: Taboo on the Bus

Kyey references:

Books:

Chavs by Owen Jones

Journals:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5153/sro.1814

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437231185966

https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/output/3176889

Articles:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/chav-caricature-comeback-tiktok-2020/

https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2021/09/02/how-the-medias-selective-idealisation-of-the-working-class-perpetuates-inequality/

https://consequence.net/2025/12/ricky-gervais-working-classes-mock-mortality/

Rachel Sennott preaching “numb is in”, " Botox is rising, the girls are emotionless, and lobotomy chic is looming in the air. Sit down with me to dissect what it means for stoicism, deadpan, and numbness to become intertwined in our perceptions of beauty and femininity. Let’s discuss whether this can be viewed as a potential clapback to the patriarchal expectations of women’s behaviour, or in fact just caging us further. Sit down with me to analyse the politics of numbness, the privilege of emotional suppression, and the tool of numbness. 

[Full OFF the bus podcast version is also live for a longer deepdive]

Rachel Sennott preaching “numb is in”, botox is rising, the girls are emotionless, and lobotomy chic is looming in the air. Sit down with me to disect what it means for stoicism, deadpan, and numbness to become intertwined in our perceptions of beauty and feminity. Let’s discuss whether this can be viewed as a potential clapback to the patriarchal expectations of women’s behvaior, or in fact just caging us further. Sit down with me to analyse the politics of numbness, the privellage of emotional suppression, and the tool of numbness. 

email: [email protected] instagram- whatzaralovestiktok - whatzaraloves6podcast - Taboo on the Bus