Velvet Sparrow

@velvetsparrow.bsky.social

Smart-ass So. CA gal * No. NV Sierras Writer/Origami artist with LOTS of chickens * Unrepentant Romantic/Rogue Snarker/Chaotic Good * AI = Block! Eastern Sierras, Nevada jackshenhouse.blogspot.com

Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

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The New York Times

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Data Center's Spill of 5,000 Gallons of Diesel Forces N.J. River Cleanup The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

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the guy who programs the firmware for your toaster thinks taxing income to pay for childhood cancer wards is fascism because it diverts money away from the reddit bigamist hosting 3:1 sex parties to fund research into teaching software that empathy is fake

The kid and I finally got our new glasses! There's loads of stuff I've been putting off because I couldn't see well. What a relief to be able to SEE again, with no headache-inducing squinting at the computer screen. Yay!