Slate says its electric pickup will never track you

With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric-pickup-will-never-track-you/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is cool: “In a study published in Apidologie, researchers at East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, uncovered one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting solitary bees ever recorded, estimating that an average of about 5.6 million bees emerge from a single section of lawn each spring, with totals ranging from roughly 3.1 to 8 million.”

https://www.discovermagazine.com/up-to-8-million-bees-are-living-in-an-underground-network-beneath-this-cemetery-48977

while mama's away, the nestlings will PLAY!!!

chestnut-fronted macaw babies emerging to explore the trunk of their nest tree, too cute for my ❤️ to handle

(while parrots are a vulnerable family, this nest is on a road to a reserve where it is kept an eye on = not attractive to poachers)

#Birds #Birding #Parrots #Nest #Neotropics #Cute

While the shale gas revolution has transformed the US electricity system, so has the rise of wind and solar which have added nearly as much generation as gas since 2005.

Both have met new demand while decimating US coal generation.

"Nearly 50K people🚨in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, bc🚨it's redirecting that power to #DataCenters.

NV Energy *NV utility that's supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,🚨says that next year it'll stop servicing homes in the area, & instead direct that #electricity to the growing demand from NV DCs.

No NV is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the C.
-More Perfect Union

#AI #USPol
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/