Skip the treatment step and just flood AI data centers with raw sewage, do everybody a favor.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago@mwrdgc.bsky.social · 3h ago

ICYMI: CBS News Chicago - The MWRD says treated wastewater from its Calumet plant could be redirected to data centers — potentially reducing how much drinking water those facilities consume each day. Read more: https://ow.ly/b6br50ZwGcn #MWRD #Chicago #DataCenters #water #wastewater #WaterReuse

I wouldn't notice a damned thing different.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

AI boosterism is when the Peter Principle meets the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Sir Skarnadz@skarnadz.bsky.social · 8h ago

And there in lies the key. The people using it are too incompetent to know when and why it's wrong. Have you heard of the Peter Principle? The c-suite is full of just this type en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_p...

Something to think about, all you people claiming that Trump will cancel the midterms.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Patton would've slapped the shit out him, and we know what MacArthur said about Truman, multiply that by a few dozen.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20h ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

"You can be yourself around me!" GDK: "Are you sure?" "Yeah, I'm sure!" "So...what should I be?" "Yourself!" *sits quietly for twenty minutes* "Well?" "What do you need me to do? Who I am depends on context and what the situation requires. Do you have something for me to do? How can I help?"

{{ PuppyBoy Adventure 2: Battle }} ΘΔ@dogman.neapolitanhusky.com · last yr.

"You can be yourself around me!" Taylor: "Are you sure?" *proceeds to ramble for several hours about trains, railroad history, LaserDiscs, electronic music history, why X gun in Y video game is depicted wrong, vintage technology, Sonic lore, why Doom Eternal sucks, why Kinks are fascinating, ...*

Things are progressing to the point that I'll start keeping a production timeline. 07/15/25: Initial commitment to FS-GDK production 08/02/25: Design requirements formalized, production split into Mk.1 and Mk.2 10/29/25: Initial RFQ for Mk.1 answered by preferred contractor

How to tell the whole world that you've never shopped for your own groceries, without saying you've never shopped for your own groceries.

onion person@junlper.beer · 22h ago

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

Yah, they just up 'n left, we dunno what happened over dere, we was all at dah fish fry.

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 23h ago

the cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know

"When danger reared its ugly head, Brave Sir Cornyn turned and fled / Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Cornyn"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

The first deployment of the US Military on an overseas mission was to ensure freedom of navigation on the high seas, in the fight against the Barbary pirates ("the Shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn). Trump is abandoning a principle dating back to this country's founding.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Strait of Hormuz tolls: "If anybody is gonna charge, we'll charge. We have total control." (Trump moments ago said he's negotiating with Iran to reopen the strait ... )

So much of this influencer stuff is just guys trying to impress other guys which is--to use the technical term--hella gay.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d ago

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Imagine being the sort of miserable person whose reaction to most things is "what's in it for me?"

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Videos that have synchronized subtitles but only one word at a time need to stop. They are ineffective as subtitles because people don't read one word at a time at that speed, and they otherwise clutter up the image.

Trying to make a puzzle image with AI is almost guaranteed to fail.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

That it is. Credit to @cihstudios.bsky.social

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

WWII propaganda is good actually

If only there were some event taking place between now and December that could change how laws are passed in this country. Nah, that couldn't possibly happen.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

It would be cool if the bill actually blocks the OMB rule for good. It doesn’t. It only stops it temporarily - and the parties will be back where they are in December (I have noted that up thread via press release from De Lauro)

If I get hit by a train because my sprained ankle didn’t let me cross the tracks fast enough, was the cause of death “sprained ankle” or “hit by a fucking train”?

Oldest cat dabs at me when he wants attention and sleeps right next to me. Middle cat rubs against me every morning as I sit to put my shoes on. Youngest cat sits on the arm of my chair and purrs constantly.

Qsy@qsy.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Cats don't actually love you" I'm being hounded 24/7 by two fluffy creatures who want nothing more but to play and snuggle, fuck off. They complain when I don't take naps because they want to have sleepy time with me around in the bedroom.

For Diesel Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum, I have signed up as conductor of the freight train on Friday, and it has occurred to me that I can use that opportunity to do something incredibly funny. #irm #angryfoamers

The Interstate Highway System was a mistake on a fundamental policy level that locked us into a spiral of car/oil dependency, inefficient land use, destruction of public transportation infrastructure, and degredation of cities. The country would be in a better place if it had never been built.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 5d ago

post your worst transportation take: I actually love the mobile lounges at Dulles.

Contrast that with the panics about "teen takeovers". I guess it's okay if they're mostly white people from the outer suburbs.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d ago

From the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.

A week from today, I will be able to add "Amtrak 231, highball" to the list of things I never thought I'd get to say.

"Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism" is a factually impossible statement; the most liberal administration in American history engaged in the largest war in human history to stop fascism, to the point of figuring out how to throw the sun at it, twice.

And just like that, Florida gets placed under Interdict.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.

This is what happens when you have an administration full of kiss-asses.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

"I shot him in the dick!" "YOU SHOT ME IN THE DICK!"

Raven Lyn Clemens@ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 5d ago

Granted, this describes the vast majority of Republican politicians as well.

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...