For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

⛏️ Child Labor Outside the Apple Store — By Eduardo Relero in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

This 3D illusion was painted directly outside a massive Apple Store in Madrid to force people waiting in line for the newest iPhone to physically confront the harsh realities of the cobalt mining required to build their screens.

Stuck on Screens: 15 Street Art Pieces About Phones, Scrolling, and Modern Life: https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/20/stuck-on-screens-15-street-art-pieces-about-phones-scrolling-and-modern-life/

In the Mediterranean, France has boarded another shadow fleet vessel, the Deyna.

French President Macron:

“The war involving Iran will not deflect France from its support for Ukraine, where Russia’s war of aggression continues unabated.

These vessels, which evade international sanctions and violate the law of the sea, are profiteers of war. They line their pockets while helping finance Russia’s war effort.

We will not allow it.”

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump

American lawyer Robert Muller has died at the age of 81.

Mueller served as the 6th director of the FBI and was later responsible for the criminal investigation of the possible Russian interference in the US 2016 elections, when he served as Special Counsel to the Department of Justice from 2017 to 2019.