Accurate!

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Was a beautiful day in downtown Minneapolis today!

Er Statehood for Puerto Rico too.

Puerto Rico too!

The highest crime rate in DC was on January 6th, 2021. Fact.

Note: my stats might be off slightly so let me know if you know differently

There are 2 current states (Wyoming and Vermont) that are less populated than DC.

There are 16 current states that are less populated than Puerto Rico.

Both Puerto Rican and DC residents deserve representation in US government and do not have it.

Disgusting.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I stream KEXP and also WWOZ. WWOZ is playing Jazz Fest right now.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

TikTok ban: What's next for app as bidding war rages? | Context TikTok's ban is delayed again as U.S. and China negotiate buyers for app

Instead of banning TikTok, "to truly reduce the supply of data that foreign adversaries can obtain, we need federal privacy legislation that limits how all companies collect and share our personal data,” EFF’s Babette Ngene told @contextnewsroom.bsky.social.

It is very possible there will be more than a million protesting tomorrow. Find your local march: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Sin gas

If I can do the tasks in the web interface, that's where I do them. I've had better luck that way especially with copying, moving and renaming files.

#Greenland 🇬🇱

Guess that's transparency.
"We want to restore the department of justice to an institution that focuses on FIGHTING LAW AND ORDER". - Karoline Leavitt White House Press Secretary
Are they fighting actual law and order or that show?

Republicans seem to have completely forgotten about the first amendment

Happy international women's day! Was a great day to be at the MN state capitol.

Just an obvious point that anyone with the inside word on when these these total reversals are going to be announced is in a position to make almost limitless amounts of money. Don't forget that given the kind of people who make up this administration.

Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

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Just a reminder that Musk’s companies have received over $15 billion from the US government — he’s happy to go after USAID but not the agencies that have been feeding him.

All that bootlicking and the New York Times still got kicked out of their Pentagon office.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

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Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go Acting EPA Administrator James Payne sent an email to members of the agency's Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee informing them that both are being "reset."

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YouTube video by INHF Written in the Rings: how eastern redcedars hold answers to Iowa's history

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