This is epic

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

As soon as I saw that SpaceX was putting out bonds, I was confused. Who would buy those? Bonds are for cautious investors. And now I know. It was bond traders who apparently know less about than the bond market than I do. And the entire extent of my knowledge is "bonds are for cautious investors."

This is an excellent article nevergivethemyourface.com

AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet.

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Theory: the nicer the hotel, the more likely they charge for wifi. Confirmed: I'm in the St. Regis in SF & ... they charge $18 a day for it! Guarantee any Motel 6 or Holiday Inn offers free wifi these days. I truly don't understand it. Do wealthy people enjoy being nickel-&-dimed like this?

Yes, but *what if* we left it to beavers to make planning decisions..?

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Everyone has a favourite toilet cubicle at work right? Mine is the third one along.

Alarming amount of folks apparently don’t seem to know that translation is a political act because translators are people, and people have biases.

AI has an environmental footprint. A new UN University study highlights the energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and land impacts associated with large AI systems. As AI adoption grows, sustainability must be part of the conversation. #AI #Sustainability #ClimateTech

On NextDoor, someone was warning wildly about a "giant data center" on 173rd/Aurora that's going to make it "difficult to sell condos." a) There's no giant data center there. b) This is what that area looks like:

Lads next time the woke progressive left successfully captures all the elite institutions we have got to be better at it cos this time it clearly didn't work at all.

Not now, ‘something living inside fog’…

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

Please, please start putting iced buns on lampposts

Calling in Net Zero was a stupid idea. Carbon emissions are only part of it. They should have called it energy sovereignty, that way the flag shaggers would be on board with it too.

What do electric buses do at night? They help balance the grid. First Bus in Glasgow: "By flexing when buses are charged, the depots can increase demand at times when there is excess renewable energy on the system, particularly wind power in Scotland, and reduce demand during peak periods. [1/2]

Again: this is real life.

Liking the calling on Elon to take the pedophile wotsit warmonger to the moon, won’t happen but it’s nice to dream.

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

Well I was thinking of going to the gym this morning. Hardly seems worth it now.

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This is a worry

I think everyone should support some legislation that requires new datacenters to be built with solar panels that can provide >80% of the total power usage. If it turns out that AI is bubble, we'll have all these solar panels that can be made into solar farms.

*I have hayfever. Today I have to suffer more, because it was an absurdly wet winter in Ibiza with the grass a meter high, and also the pollen-counts increase because of climate change *It's "sci-fi" till you're breathing it, and after that, it's just how it is "It'll return to normal soon!" No

Nice that the world could be ended by two AI models with names that sound like they belong in a mall food court www.ft.com/content/ea8c...

This is not the own Ted thinks it is . . .

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

After #r4today we’ll have “In Our Time” on MC Escher, starting just after 9, and continuing endlessly.

Solar panels in the rain? No problem.

Most people: We'd like less light pollution, and more starry nights. The Valley: Cool... How about giant unregulated space mirrors reflecting the Sun onto your community, turning night into day whenever we can make a buck off it? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...

Solar panels lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

I want them to run themselves when power is abundant and renewable too

The intensity of the past few weeks has been astounding. In the midst of this I locate my hope in the works many of you are doing to transform our systems. To that, here is the Spring issue of "Notes on a Present Future" with an amazing roster of beautiful projects. buttondown.com/LinaSrivasta...

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

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To those still complaining about Artemis 2: We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽‍♀️ NASA: $25B Defense: $901B That’s 36 NASAs. Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.

The Left Behind books did not prepare me for a stupid Antichrist. I feel misled.

scientist using cheese-based microscope: "it appears that at a microscopic level, the entire universe is tainted by ubiquitous cheese" futurism.com/science-ener...

Don’t let this fly under the radar: the Trump administration wants to kick ~6 million more people off of food assistance programs, including nearly 2 million children. That would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

The actual fook is wrong with this administration