Folks do realize that data centers existed before AI, right? You’re using one right now. I genuinely think Musk’s monstrosity in Memphis has made people assume they’re all like that.

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There are more than 11,000 kinds of birds. I evaluated them all and made a definitive list of the 100 greatest names. I consider myself a bird name connoisseur but these blew me away. Over the next 10 days I'll add them to this thread. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

It's easy to be glib about shortages in plastics-making petrochemicals, especially because yes, this will drive up single-use packaging costs, but I'll continue to emphasize this stuff is absolutely critical to build things we all agree are good for climate objectives. bsky.app/profile/hora...

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

𝚂𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙷. 𝚂𝙾 𝙲𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙽.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Texas cont] In an additional attempt to suppress LGBTQ+ speech, the policy includes STUDENTS: "no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” thus extending "Don't Say Gay" to dissertations and theses. 2/2

uhhhh apropos of nothing, stylevana is having a sale on sunscreen and it might be a good idea to get your fancy foreign spf sooner rather than later

Yes, it is real. Lord have mercy.

ANYWAY, all of that is to say that it's a fool's errand to try and judge any pope, even an American one, based on the dividing lines of Left and Right. he is always, by definition, going to have positions which piss me off, but if he's doing his job right he should also be pissing off JD Vance

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here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

Not sure if someone else has already pointed this out: the indictment against SPLC has multiple counts for false statements to a bank, 18 USC 1014. Theory explicitly stated in indictment is that certifications to open accounts were “false or misleading.” But there’s a problem: /1

I’m sorry that actually moving the country left is going to require you to work with your liberal mom who has a “fake email job,” and not the burly manly factory workers who you think are going to wake up and be communists any day, but that’s the reality of the situation.

1. all of these people are rich 2. we live in a fucking society, act like it

Despite what the legislator is claiming, this isn't theoretical. Louisiana cops cited this woman for "indecent" exposure for wearing a crop top. Even with a dismissal, that's legal fees, sleepless nights and public shame. Harassment is meant to send a message.

babies 🥹 www.dailyherald.com/20260421/pet...

As it turns out, NASA has to code the rocket as a hat that the astronauts all equip in their inventory's head slot in order to ride it

>Haha fuck you liberals it’s called the friend-enemy distinction, we make the law we need and the rest we throw out, read theory >Hey >Wait >Oh >Oh no >Fuck you liberals how could you do this to us don’t you care about our feelings where’s the law that lets you do this

if you live in Virginia go out and vote Yes so i can live in the lobster district

it's Her Turn

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO GET CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, STAY IN LINE

man i really want to know what my very catholic, very trumpy family is thinking about Recent Developments but that would involve talking to them about politics and tbh i would rather die.

meta has been crashing out left and right for years so i have no doubt this blow up in its face

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Reading some (nominally) left wing critiques of Me Too from 2017-2018 for work and wheww I had forgotten how unhinged this was

i love airport time, airports are for breakfast beer, weird snacks from the hudson news and some a+ people watching

this is Gender but also a lot of people are just bad at packing. i do carry-on only and i schelp a bunch of medical equipment around. (i have done this for a five-day wedding in bangalore complete with multiple outfit changes per day)

can this be a solution?

Kind of late but I wrote about Eric Swalwell and how despite narratives that MeToo/allegations sweepingly “ruin men’s lives,” many vaguely famous men actually gain a new fan base/receive vocal support for the first time in their careers—solely *from* facing allegations:

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

TIL matt groening designed a nasa mission patch for a sperm experiment

Heavy is the head…

one of the things i love about fnv is that you can kill a rapist and the game does not try to make you feel bad about it.

Watching the drag race finale and I love how fucking Midwestern white trash Darlene is. It gives me life.

Guy at the gay bar is legit on his work laptop doing spreadsheets

throwing flashbangs at the fbi director to rouse him from a drunken slumber

they are the best

I don’t often use the overextended word “iconic”, but as the adage goes, there are a hundred thousand songs about falling in love, but there’s only one song about the boys being back in town. musically, lyrically, & sonically perfect, it’s as good as rock n roll gets.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭

BREAKING: An ICE charter landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo minutes ago following third-country deportation deal with the Trump administration. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...