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What the Data Center Boom Means for Planners It’s tempting to write off the havoc that data centers are wreaking in communities across the country as an IT problem. The truth? It’s a planning problem.

'Based on estimates I’ve seen, a single data center campus would have an annual carbon footprint equivalent to the emissions of about 80,000 passenger vehicles in a year.'

so... that means capturing waste heat from data centers is not circularity.

www.planetizen.com/blogs/137025...

tech stuff that is very bad that isn't generative AI

- Betting markets
- Camera glasses (Meta)
- Fascist doorbell cameras
- Driverless cars clogging up cities
- EVs are still getting bigger -> makes them deadlier, more polluting (through more power consumption)
- Streaming death spiral

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

Had a crummy day but I'm sure if I just scroll a little more I can turn it all around

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Maybe also Palm Springs

Barb & Star

"Bill & Ted Face The Music"

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Why American automakers are betting big on muscle cars as the world goes electric President Trump's rollback of climate regulations has freed U.S. automakers to pump out muscle cars and gas-guzzling trucks, promising immediate profits for companies.

U.S. car companies keep saying they know they have to transition to EVs or they'll get killed by China, even as they shift most of their resources to pickup trucks and SUVs and muscle cars. Hmm. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?

AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

Joy Kwon on The Pitt

She has turned into my favorite character next to Mel and I'm bummed we'll only get her for one season!!

You're not going to trick me into saying anything nice about Anthropic. This is like how Malaria can fight Syphilis. Sure okay, but I don't want to be involved with either one.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Unfortunately I AM attracted to the enshittifying guy

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr.

TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

Age 12: I want to change the world
Age 18: I want to make great art
Age 25: I want to live a personally satisfying life
Age 30: I want to have a clean apartment
Age 36: I want to dissolve into a fine mist, and be dispersed by the wind

Imagining Jim Harbaugh trying to parse what a sapphic aura transfusion is

The whole promise of AI is that it would reduce our cognitive workload, but every single product that comes out just wants us to do more for it. A smartwatch can already detect when you’re out for a walk; why would you want to also have to tell it you’re out for a walk? That’s just labor.

Congratulations!!!

American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e

It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.

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btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

Yeah I mean in complete honesty I do think people had unrealistic expectations of a bunch of guys who are
1. 24 years old
2. stupid
3. rich
4. punched in the head for a living

Pamela Anderson on the cover of AnOther magazine

Pam Anderson photoshoot oversized red shirt

Pam Anderson in pink dress

Pam Anderson in red Prada shirt

God, she's just absolutely radiant lately

Easily one of the top charts of all time

Crazy that the NHL got a huge boost in female fandom and lost it again in the span of what... 2 months? Incredible fumble, or whatever the hockey version of a fumble is