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The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

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As in our policy frameworks don't yet capture how terrible the environmental impact is

Came all the way back from 20 points down. Great team win! #Knicks

Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda (Gift Article) Follow the lawsuits and rulings that are challenging President Trump's executive orders.

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Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda

As of April 24, at least 108 of those rulings have at least temporarily paused some of the administration’s initiatives.

Here is EVERYONE of them.

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Josh Hart has tied Clyde Frazier's Knick franchise record for triple-doubles in a season with 8!

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Meet the acting U.S. attorney who quit over Eric Adams case Danielle Sassoon quit her job on Thursday after refusing a Trump administration demand to seek dismissal of bribery charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Profiles in courage

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For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

DOGE emails went out to federal judges by mistake U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said judges across the country received emails from Elon Musk's DOGE.

Now imagine this happening with your personal data.

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Donald Trump’s data purge has begun Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

Data is power. Thankfully the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has backed up vital information and data sets that has been scrapped from government websites following the Trump administration.

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CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com.

Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…”

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Profiles in courage

Helpful WashPost Graphic. (For the sake of history)

An Illustrated Guide to Trump’s Conflict of Interest Risks (Gift Article) President-elect Donald J. Trump has a range of new business ventures that could expose him to even greater potential conflicts of interest than during his first term.

To put Trump's new crypto business into context, here is an illustrated guide we published on Friday that details the full range of apparent conflicts of interest as Trump enters the White House again. A good reference work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/....