Erin Brockovich launched an interactive reporting website and map brockovichdatacenter.com to track the environmental impact of AI data centers across the U.S. The platform allows communities to report proposed, under-construction, and operational data centers to monitor water and energy usage

A great speech: "Yes, we are optimizing our time. But we aren’t happier. In fact, I think all of these things make us feel the opposite. I think that’s because the human brain wasn’t built to have conveyor belts feed it. It wants to do work. It grows by hitting dead ends, through trial and error..."

Dupont circle Sunday: weekly salsa dancing gathering, a guy with a typewriter creating on the spot poetry, and a whole lot of people reading books

Pacific North Sports has finished in first place, winning Ski to Sea, 30 seconds ahead of MARR’S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical. The team made up time in the sea kayak leg, despite being two minutes behind MARR’S at the start.

given that California is a two party consent state for wiretapping, if you take a phone call while wearing one of these, you have committed a crime :)

And a second pick for #CountryRockSunday: Carlene Carter scored a top 3 hit (!) with what I'd argue is the best-ever marriage of Honky Tonk and power pop, and she yelps and growls like peak Wanda Jackson all over it. There's just no one else like her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPPN...

Cascadia Daily News photojournalist Finn Wendt camped out the night before Ski to Sea and caught the sunset over Mount Shuksan. Racers also scoped out the area, taking note of the lack of snow in the downhill ski-to-runner handoff zone.

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

I used Grammarly for many years but quit once it pivoted to shoving AI down everyone's throat. At the end, it was both offering to rewrite your stuff with AI...and to detect any AI writing. A nice circular economy of baiting and busting, which seems to be where we are now.

I have taken 85 people to the Dodgers v Brewers game tonight in Milwaukee. Here is half our group pre-gaming at Kelly’s Bleachers ❤️

I like how every data centre proposal has to include how it's not going to be as horrifying on the environment as you'd think rather than what societal benefit it'll provide in exchange for strangling the last of our dwindling resources

"An official says the area is around 6700 sq. km and will be operated by Parks Canada along with its Indigenous and federal partners." This is such good news! 🌊

One thing I love about "ET" is how it time-freezes the last gasp of subdivisions in LA's hills & Valley. I related to riding bikes with friends over graded terraces for homes, making jumps out of plywood. This intersection is at Beaufait & Darby in Porter Ranch (1982 vs. 2022).

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

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When a building enters the social housing portfolio, it belongs to Seattle and it stays that way. That is how you build a city that is actually stable. Not just for a decade, not just until the market shifts — permanently.

The disinformation spread is *amazing.* I did a search on the test flight and nearly every outlet characterized it as successful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such effective media capture.

@greggjlevine.bsky.social and my first guess is confirmed. Gah. Wonder what treatment he got from the doctor he requested after the race 2 weeks ago, other than the "shot" he said he needed.

Regular reminder if you want to follow a feed of art on Bluesky with NO generative AI slop, the SciArt Feed is for you. Just skilled people doing interesting work:

Sitting here thinking “Is Trump blowing off his son’s wedding because we’re invading Cuba or bombing Iran?” and this is just not a normal way to live.

Especially d) is quite profound - how did we get to the point where LLMs are SO heavily subsidized that devs can waste compute on using LLMs for tasks that (much more efficient) classical algorithms can handle. The market is deeply unhealthy and it's time to stop these wasteful LLM subsidies.

"I asked ChatGPT and..argle bargle..."

Noooooooo!!!!

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

Local millionaire is told to “pull up their bootstraps and work harder” resulting in 2 years of openly weeping.

Jennifer Dunn stumbled into fixing typewriters while trying to get away from screens. Now she teaches others how to fix their typewriters and works to spread the word about these century-old machines.

Of significance: The Judge, in reciting the events leading us here, explicitly names each and every single government attorney involved, and outlines what their involvement in the case was.

one of the things i don't think we're prepared for: between AI and billionaires taking over media for ideological purposes, a lot of entertainment is going to get a lot worse very fast

Harris lost because she listened to a bunch of white men consultants who don't know shit about the electorate. There. I did your autopsy.

If the AI/ML models haven’t been trained on extreme events they won’t be able to predict extreme events. We don’t know precise impacts of altered balloon schedules, ⬇️ staffing, ⬇️ research funding, ⬇️ $$ for radar maintenance, ⬇️ satellite capabilities, model cuts, etc. but it’s probably not good.

So very sad today: My friend and former colleague Anthony Bolante passed away from complications due to a stroke. He was a prince among men: kind, generous, unbelievably talented. He radiated positive energy. www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news...

But at a low smoke point.

@greggjlevine.bsky.social gonna be real interested in cause of death...

👀 this is more than I previously had.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

what about sharing the revenue stream from our actual music?

Mood at Donnie Jr's wedding this weekend is gonna be lit!!

Zohran got more votes than 50 sitting U.S. Senators did.

I will celebrate Tim Reid any chance I get. A true legend.

I think if you're a journalist writing about a potential space trillionaire you should be required to mention he's an overt white supremacist with a head full of conspiracy theories and recreational ketamine. that seems not only relevant to the public interest, but to investment understanding

General meetings can make or break your career in Hollywood so you better be prepared. I broke down everything you need to know in a blog post: writingandwhatnot.com/blog/general...

Finding productive uses for LLMs while at the same time doing nothing to mitigate the numerous harms makes things WORSE not better. Responding to “AI” critique by saying that they have their uses and with work we can make them genuinely productive is not a rational response. It’s accelerationism

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

Since adjudged terrorist Enrique Tarrio is demanding my tax $, worth pointing out that Stan Woodward & Todd Blanche aligned Terrorist Slush Fund w/doc Tarrio had planning attack on Capitol. As if their Terrorist Slush Fund is ITSELF part of attack on democracy. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22...

Power Ballad is another winner from John Carney. Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas make beautiful music together. Lots of laughs, but then there’s a moment that hits you directly in the feels. One of my favorites of the year so far.

We had 15 @runforsomething.net winners (or move-on-to-the-runoff-ers) yesterday -- onward we go.

In front of the committee chair is a plaque: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." See my potato photo below.