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If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. DOT violated the constitution by trying to coerce states to cooperate with ICE if they want federal transportation dollars.

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

US electricity bills increased by 11% in Trump’s second term, data shows New analysis prompts letter to Trump from Elizabeth Warren: ‘Your administration has no answers for families hit by high energy costs’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Immigration Crackdown Spreads Through Chicago, Including Wealthy Neighborhoods

Consider this raid: ICE rolls up in an affluent mostly White neighborhood right to a house where four men are working. Grabs one, the other 3 flee. No indication any were citizens or legally present. Assuming that’s true, how did ICE know who and where they were?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

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ICE is lying. Go figure

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. Additional food and equipment are ready to be shipped to the border from Jordan and Egypt. Our vital work cannot continue without permission from Israel for this aid to enter. #ChefsForGaza (3/5)

Binge watching foreign movies to get ahead of the tariffs

Other countries seem to have far fewer mutants with incredible powers!

Another advantage for America!

Donald Trump has a history of using the term "low IQ" to insult various individuals, particularly women and political opponents. Here are some notable instances: ABC News Jasmine Crockett In April 2025, Trump referred to Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) as a "low IQ person" during an interview on NBC's Meet the Press. This comment followed Crockett's criticism of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whom she nicknamed "Governor Hot Wheels" . In response, Crockett appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and challenged Trump to take a public IQ test against her . YouTube +6 The Daily Beast +6 New York Post +6 FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth +1 FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth +1 Kamala Harris Trump has repeatedly targeted Vice President Kamala Harris with similar insults. During a rally in Milwaukee in November 2024, he called her a "low-IQ person" while criticizing her competence . He reiterated this insult at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 2024 . The Guardian YouTube Maxine Waters In 2018, Trump labeled Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) as "an extraordinarily low IQ person" after she called for public confrontations with Trump administration officials . ABC News Mika Brzezinski Trump also targeted MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski in 2017, referring to her as "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" in a tweet. He further insulted her by claiming she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" during a visit to Mar-a-Lago . YouTube +2 Wikipedia +2 The Daily Beast +2 These instances reflect a pattern in Trump's rhetoric, where he uses derogatory terms to belittle critics and opponents, often focusing on their intelligence or appearance.

I listened to President Trump call Rep. Jasmine Crockett a "low IQ individual" and I realized I had heard that before, so put the question to ChatGPT.

As always, if you’re a government or tech worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Do not be swayed by the Trump administration's deep embrace of Goebbels and its efforts to get us to parrot lies to numb, or worse, convince the public through repetition that the lie is the truth. Not all statements by Trump or his administration are inherently newsworthy or worth restating.

They are deadly serious about this. They are planning to throw millions of people off their insurance in order to afford a trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthiest 1%.

JFC. So far, Trump has caused markets to lose about 14%.
Here's how the same period to date looks under other recent presidential terms

Most People Buy a New Phone Every 2.5 Years. There’s a Better Way Back Market and iFixit are partnering to encourage consumers to keep their phones in service for at least five years—and to pressure manufacturers to extend smartphone support to 10 years.

Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, DIY supplier iFixit and refurbished device retailer Back Market have partnered to launch a marketing campaign that encourages consumers to replace their phones every 5 years instead of the national average of 2.5 to 3 years.

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing Only six of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts.

NEW: Last night, I watched a half marathon in Beijing where 12,000 runners raced along 21 humanoid robots 🤖. Needless to say, humans won big. But I did start rooting for one humanoid robot as it wobbled towards the end after multiple falls, head duct-taped to the body, human assistants exhausted.

My latest for Rolling Stone.

I sympathize with feeling fear to do your job but I feel strongly the remedy is to quit your job, not to stop doing it, especially when people rely on you to do your job.

In a quixotic attempt to increase employment in the manufacturing sector (13m jobs), Trump has cratered the tourism industry (18m jobs).

#richkid
#amateur

Time for a WIN garden

A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

An amazing statistic from @chenoweth.bsky.social
(brought to my attention by the fabulous @madelinevo.bsky.social )
There have been more than twice as many protests in February 2025 than February 2017 - they're more decentralized so harder for journalists to cover - but mighty and effective.

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

Like clockwork. He is a chaos monkey throwing feces.