The thing about these AI data centers being built is that they are big boxes full of graphics cards. Good for very specific tasks, not good for general computer things. And they draw tremendous amounts of power because graphics cards are very power-hungry
nat@imonlyposting.bsky.social · 4d agowait really? as a non tech person I just assumed that a big box full of computer could be used for other things
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
miamiherald.com
I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.
Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
It turned out be the other way around. First it merged with performance art, then politics.
Declassify UAP@declassifyuap.bsky.social · last wk."Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art.” -William Gibson, The Peripheral
Norm's headline is better, but the point is the same: Democrats need to educate about the horrors Republicans have passed and delayed.
Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
It's Democrats' job to explain what's coming and who must be blamed by November.
thefarce.org
loreleikelly@loreleikelly.bsky.social · last wk.The Trump regime’s coming health care catastrophe @normornstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2142...
“it costs less money than what we’re doing now” is the only answer we need to push normies towards universal healthcare
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last wk.“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Y'all out here taking the opinions of people with a stated, literal interest in your actual destruction seriously will never not mystify me.
lol. Republican US Senate candidate for … [checks notes] … Minnesota
Love that MN AFL-CIO is on this list of domestic insurgent organizations and also has a building at the State Fair where you can play union bingo and win a tote bag
madi mcvan@madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 2w agoA motion filed this morning in the "Minnesota 15" case details extensive surveillance of labor unions, leftist organizations and racial justice groups by the federal government during Operation Metro Surge. Here's the motion — reading through it now and will have a story up later today.
Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
nytimes.com
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
yeah he sees himself as being in a negotiation with Iran but at war with Minnesota
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3w agoStill can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
Trump proposed to eliminate Head Start. Congress refused. Now Trump is going to gut Head Start through deregulation. Notice a pattern? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
The US is becoming a rogue nation. No rule of law at home or abroad. "Trump Administration Announces New Attack on the International Criminal Court" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 8 324 pts · clean plate · no hints 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
I don’t understand all the FIFA rules, but I believe our loss to Belgium today means we are required to adopt their street design standards
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2mo agoUSA v Belgium is a tough one for me because on the one hand I’m American and on the other hand…
We're in a doomloop until a PM actually has the balls to say "Brexit was an enormous fuck up which ruined everything and continues to ruin everything". Every successive PM who comes in to "reset" Britain's position or to "make Brexit work" is a charlatan.
New app: do you want to enable notifications? Me: I don't even want to have this phone
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
Responding to questions about why they are taking down the system, the NSF representative consulted a LLM to string together important sounding words into an answer shaped text. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
nytimes.com
A billion dollars can do as much damage as a nuclear weapon. Such amounts should not be in private hands.
stevethdemocrat@stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo more billionaires period. They're ridiculous.
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.