The next senator from Texas is a white cishet male pastor with a thing for short latinas and it’s driving Republicans insane
Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics
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Let's see who Alt BLS really is *gasp* It's just some guy!
I know we talk about Republicans’ brains breaking if they lose Texas etc and that’s obviously true as a general principle but it does feel as though they will break an extra level if they lose it to Talarico after spending the entire campaign in one of the weirdest Gender meltdowns I have ever seen
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
“Scott Colom sought plea deals for murderers as DA” is the most fork-found-in-kitchen accusation I’ve ever heard. Yeah that’s uh. Thats the DA’s job.
“'No one bothered to check whether the accusation was true.’” So, an Australian Jew who was born in Israel but emigrated to Australia at 18 years old and never served in the Israeli military and is pro-Palestine was listed as a ‘sponsor’ for the event b/c she donated to the crowdfunding campaign.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 21h agoGames event criticized after dumping sponsor over 'Zionist' allegations: aftermath.site/freeplay-paral...
They don’t want to read the classics, they don’t want to listen to classics professors about the classics, they want to watch 300
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · yesterdayAHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
Mike (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴@mxmike.co.uk · 18h agoBethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
XCOM but it’s MENACE so you have actual squad-based combat and the UFOs are larger than a studio apartment
17. One good thing about data centers is that they drive some investment into the scale-up of bonkers long-duration storage tech, eg Form Energy’s iron-air batteries (link). They care much less about the cost of power than about speed-to-power. www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
Gigantic Form Energy battery to power Google data center in Minnesota
The startup has struck a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery plant that will deliver clean energy, round the clock, to a Google…
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9. Batteries still do not solve the seasonal problem. A battery of any type that only charges and discharges a few times per year is extremely expensive, even if the capex is low!
8. The consensus answer to intermittency is now capitalism and batteries. However, batteries reduce peak evening prices much faster than they increase sun-hour prices, so they cannibalize their returns before they increase solar returns. As we already see in Australia. www.bnef.com/insights/40165
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5. Solar is still the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places that aren’t yet running into saturation effects are grid access and permitting.
Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoRemarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
if you want to modernize carrie white then she is not a pretty, misunderstood quiet girl. what she is is a "lolcow", a girl who does not fit in and is seen as a bit grotesque and is systematically provoked until she breaks, with a goal of milking her for content.
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
I think both this and the next US administration are going to be incredulous and genuinely offended when the EU, Canada et al don’t immediately revert to trying to crawl up the arse of the State Department.
*squints* okay, we need a bounty board of "software that needs to be rewritten as a tiny public domain script in Rust"
mathematics in the age of AI starts to look a bit more like the "poke an incomprehensibly complex system with a stick and measure what happens" discipline of biology we have to accept that the mathematical realists have won. math is discovered not invented (at least not invented by humans)
XCOM has the most fascinating gap between narrative scope and gameplay scope. You must save the world from a global alien invasion. You do this by managing a military smaller than the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT division
The “voluntary departure” orders are an absolute scandal. You detain someone illegally. Conditions are terrible. So then DHS deprives them of a hearing with an immigration judge or even a credible fear screening (after expedited removal order) by having them sign all their rights away to DHS
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
The way anti-AI propaganda frames it, the only real difference between "AI" and "machine learning" is tech company marketing choices to make investors happy by launching products that aren't ready for primetime yet. If it's mature tech by the time you hear about it, then it's machine learning.