Solving this once and for all.

This…is what happens when you use AI for art. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Found on LinkedIn, but probs unprofessional to point it out in the comments. 🙃

A year ago, just 42% of Americans opposed a data center being built in their community. Today, a staggering 75% do. Are data centers really that bad? Let’s take a look.

This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which page do you like best?

hey #houston if you have 5 minutes help fill out the harris county commission survey the will inform how to prioritize spending t.co/VTlNkjNUxv

This what pivot_wider() was born for

Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Me: trying to get my ducks in a row My ducks:

Get’em.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2mo ago

The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

WIRED@wired.com · 3mo ago

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

A little bit of generative art made with #RStats and @datawrapper.de #CreativeCoding

Happy 4th of July, Huskies!

Schrödinger's security check 🤦

New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French. Link to my store in my story!

The Seed Song

I really cannot stress enough how unhinged things are getting right now in terms of elections. Three stories you need to have on your radar today 🧵

My top three least favorite companies.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

A jury has found that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly. Live Nation used its dominance to harm customers, artists, and venues alike. Other monopolies take away our freedoms in similar ways. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

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22K likes, 1.3K comments. "The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)"

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Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

Exactly 💯

We couldn’t agree more. Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson talked with us about their new stereoscopic book of galaxies, that combines art and science to give people a 3D perspective of the universe. Listen to the full podcast episode now: buff.ly/LkdXS62

The data centers needed to train AI can consume as much electricity as 200,000 American homes—and the race to power these digital tools is changing the physical world, Matteo Wong reports:

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

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Yesss, let’s take over R! 🌈

Damie Pak@damiepak.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wow #rainbowR conference was a blast! Even in these dark times, we have our community. Hoping this would be annual event! #rstats

#RStats is up baby www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

Python is slipping in popularity – Tiobe

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

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People who say knees are evidence against intelligent design should remember that Microsoft Windows is the result of intelligent design

Gir says happy Mardi Gras.

“[F]racked gas companies are fully backed by the Trump administration, with its ideological dedication to fossil fuels and its cozy relationship with billionaire oil and gas donors. For its part, Big Tech is going along, largely sidelining its purported commitments to renewable energy."

Truthout@truthout.org · 9mo ago

Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.

Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.

Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

Books We Love

Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.

Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

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