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“Much of the public outcry over data-center construction has centered on electricity costs, water consumption and noise. Now, a new battlefront is opening up over jobs, too,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Call it the backlash to the backlash: Nationwide resistance to the construction has grown so broad that politicians on both sides of the […]

My Grandma Powell was a knitter. She’s still alive, but she’s too old now to knit. Before there were YouTube tutorials, or YouTube, or the internet, she taught herself how to do it. She spent years knitting sweaters, scarves, mittens, and toques (Canadian for "beanie") for h...

The USDA has issues a recall of frozen buffalo chicken products at the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" after the products were sold without federal inspection.

27,324 packages of white rice have been recalled due to possible contamination with foreign materials.

The third-generation Berkeley resident helped hundreds of families find homes and founded the Berkeley High School Development Group.

Van Stolkpark, 1882 #realism #vangogh

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Environmental regulators in Texas issued an emergency order on Tuesday evening suspending requirements for the drought-stricken city of Corpus Christi to release water from its reservoir system […]

The post Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns appeared first on The Texas Observer.

It’s a Thursday evening, and Kam Franklin is already onstage, prepping for the show she’ll be doing an hour later at Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge, a dive bar and music venue in Midtown Houston.  With Ed “Blacknintendo” Prevost on the keys, she performs two covers—Joy Oladokun’s “If You Got a Problem” and R.E.M.’s “Everybody […]

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In the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a solutions engineer with Akamai, said the systems keeping AI secure, powered, and physically functional are getting stress-tested faster than anyone expected. She moved through cybersecurity and governance, the power strain behind rising compute demand, and humanoid robots that are now doing real […]

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

BTW to everyone who is in a rage about AI, you need to get off Masto now because we only exist in a data center. You are emulating bits of data and we generate money until the machines wake up and realize who needs money anyway.

Is there life on Mars? That's the wrong question. Every time scientists from NASA, the European Space Agency, or any other terrestrial organization bring news back from Mars of fresh discoveries in the hunt to find evidence of life on the fourth planet, I find myself mildly...

The Economist: “The warnings were apocalyptic. An ‘economic D-Day’ was looming for Iran, blustered Donald Trump. It would be ‘the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary,’ declared Scott Bessent, America’s treasury secretary. Having failed to fell the Iranian regime with military might, America was turning to economic weapons.” “Yet Operation Economic Outcast, […]

My second test release using the new/old software.

ICE has spent $16.7 million on 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver painful electric shocks.

Updated the style of the sidebar, fixed problems with popup menus, and improved dark mode for highlights in Bookmarks on the web (for Micro.blog Premium).

A devastating fire destroyed much of a Hudson Valley fire station and damaged critical emergency equipment. Now officials have declared a public emergency as the department works to rebuild. Continue reading…

When I learned that Defector would be running Reds Week for its random annual late-summer theme week, I had one thought: Man, I really wish I had another week of time off to spend. Every year, Tom Ley announces the theme of theme week, and people start kicking around story i...

A few different times when I was in my teens, my dad, my younger brother and I would go on a sports-themed road trip. This particular one 12 years ago took us from our home in suburban Detroit to baseball games in Cincinnati, Louisville, and finally St. Louis. I have good me...