GOOD. Those email responses were so gross.
Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/05/nx-s1-5563182/shutdown-lawsuit-education-department-partisan-messages
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Canvasser, phonebanker, Prochoice, dem, married to @professor_stevens. I used to sell books and manage movie theaters, now I work in software. I ran for office twice.
They took this man alive. He is alive.
Breonna Taylor should be alive.
Philando Castile should be alive.
The police should never kill anyone. If they can take this man alive, they should never have to shoot anyone…ever.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/20/vance-boelter-investigation-unsealed-search-warrants
Four dozen guns, 5 body bags and a second police vehicle found in search of Boelter property
Judges Friday unsealed a number of search warrants from the investigation into Vance Boelter. Boelter is suspected of killing former DFL Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, as well as shooting and seriously wounding DFL State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.
The Tennessee Holler 
LaffyWho are they supporting?
NPR:
JUST IN: A defense official told NPR the Marines were expected to operate in a "support role."
Worms-for-brains wants us all to die.
RFK Jr. removes all members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee : Shots - Health News
I can’t even come up with words angry enough.
Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records
AJ Sadauskas@joannaholman @SimonCHulse @CiaraNi @davidtheeviloverlord @artdragon86 Here's a good rundown of where the water use for AI is: https://cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Challenging-Waters
As well as the cooling systems for data centres, there's also the water used in generating power, and the embodied water used for making chips:
"Cooling (scope-1): On average, depending on the weather conditions and operational settings, data centers can evaporate about 0.26 - 2.4 gallons (1 – 9 liters) per kWh of server energy for cooling purposes.
"Water-Intensive Electricity Generation (scope-2): The electricity needed to power data centers often comes from thermoelectric or hydroelectric plants, which require significant amounts of water. The national weighted average for thermoelectric and hydroelectric water use is 2.0 gal (7.6 liters) of evaporated water per kWh of electricity consumed.
"Water Consumption Associated with AI Supply Chains (scope-3). Producing a single microchip, for instance, requires 2.1 – 2.6 gallons (8-10 liters) of water to cool machinery and make sure wafer sheets are free of contaminants."
Globally, the amount of fresh water used by AI is more than all the water used in some European countries:
"AI's global annual water consumption is still projected to reach between 4.2 billion and 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027 (4 to 6 times the annual water usage of a country like Denmark). This is particularly concerning in the context of global freshwater scarcity and the broader challenges posed by climate change."
Keep in mind that just 3% of the world's water is fresh water.
Anx many data centres are in places where water is already scarce.
There's a huge amount of water being diverted from farms, cities, and the environment for AI:
"Water consumption in data centers varies widely. For example, Google's hyperscale data centers, which support major services such as Gmail and Google Drive, averaged approximately 550,000 gallons (2.1 million liters) of water per day over the past year. In contrast, smaller data centers generally report much lower water usage, averaging about 18,000 gallons (68,100 liters) per day. In the US, where the average per capita water withdrawal is 132 gallons per day, a large data center consumes water equivalent to that of 4200 persons. This makes data centers one of the top 10 of “water-consuming industrial or commercial industries” in the country. The U.S. is home to over 5,300 data centers, and by the end of 2021, around 20% of these centers were drawing water from moderately to highly stressed watersheds in the western U.S. This practice contributes to the growing problem of water scarcity in the region."
Sorry for the infodump.
But yeah, a *lot* of potential drinking water for people, or irrigation water for crops, or environmental flows for plants and animals is instead being diverted to LLMs.
As well as the cooling systems for data centres, there's also the water used in generating power, and the embodied water used for making chips:
"Cooling (scope-1): On average, depending on the weather conditions and operational settings, data centers can evaporate about 0.26 - 2.4 gallons (1 – 9 liters) per kWh of server energy for cooling purposes.
"Water-Intensive Electricity Generation (scope-2): The electricity needed to power data centers often comes from thermoelectric or hydroelectric plants, which require significant amounts of water. The national weighted average for thermoelectric and hydroelectric water use is 2.0 gal (7.6 liters) of evaporated water per kWh of electricity consumed.
"Water Consumption Associated with AI Supply Chains (scope-3). Producing a single microchip, for instance, requires 2.1 – 2.6 gallons (8-10 liters) of water to cool machinery and make sure wafer sheets are free of contaminants."
Globally, the amount of fresh water used by AI is more than all the water used in some European countries:
"AI's global annual water consumption is still projected to reach between 4.2 billion and 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027 (4 to 6 times the annual water usage of a country like Denmark). This is particularly concerning in the context of global freshwater scarcity and the broader challenges posed by climate change."
Keep in mind that just 3% of the world's water is fresh water.
Anx many data centres are in places where water is already scarce.
There's a huge amount of water being diverted from farms, cities, and the environment for AI:
"Water consumption in data centers varies widely. For example, Google's hyperscale data centers, which support major services such as Gmail and Google Drive, averaged approximately 550,000 gallons (2.1 million liters) of water per day over the past year. In contrast, smaller data centers generally report much lower water usage, averaging about 18,000 gallons (68,100 liters) per day. In the US, where the average per capita water withdrawal is 132 gallons per day, a large data center consumes water equivalent to that of 4200 persons. This makes data centers one of the top 10 of “water-consuming industrial or commercial industries” in the country. The U.S. is home to over 5,300 data centers, and by the end of 2021, around 20% of these centers were drawing water from moderately to highly stressed watersheds in the western U.S. This practice contributes to the growing problem of water scarcity in the region."
Sorry for the infodump.
But yeah, a *lot* of potential drinking water for people, or irrigation water for crops, or environmental flows for plants and animals is instead being diverted to LLMs.
"By late March, Anthony Lee should have gotten a heads up that mass layoffs at the FDA were about to begin.
"Instead the union president found out when he started getting panicked calls early one morning.”
Federal employee unions fight for survival as Trump attacks
Jack JenkinsBREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including credentialed press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
ICE did its usual violent thing. Be alert everyone. https://figcitynews.com/2025/05/over-the-line/