Frankie ✅

@Some_Emo_Chick
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Former German ExPat back in the states talking about: Politics, Religion, Art, Beauty, Equality, Star Trek, STO, Pansexuality, and Things I Should Probably Not Be Saying Out Loud.
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Frankie ✅24m ago
I'm not sure Pegasus Transit thought that phone number through...
Frankie ✅17h ago

'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers

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

#tech #technology #news #technews #ai #datacenters #electricity

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

Fortune
Frankie ✅21h ago

ICE handed $12M to a 'surveillance' firm whose 'lead scientist' was a stock photo: report

https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2676886741/

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #ice

ICE handed $12M to a 'surveillance' firm whose 'lead scientist' was a stock photo: report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave a $12.2 million no-bid contract to a company that appears to have fabricated staff and was originally founded to hold its founder's sailboat, according to a new report.ICE contracted with Edge Ops LLC for a program called Project SAFE HAVEN, an AI surveillanc...

Raw Story
Frankie ✅21h ago

AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds

https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/ai-automation-layoffs-gartner-study-roi/

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #layoffs #business #economy

AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds

A Gartner study found that while 80% of companies surveyed reported workforce reductions, there was no correlation to higher ROI.

Fortune
Frankie ✅1d ago
Took a welding class. I don't think I did it right.
Frankie ✅1d ago
Image from the White House declassified UFO files
Frankie ✅1d ago

Campaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidates

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5795891/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-campaigns

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga

Frankie ✅1d ago

Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits

https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/trump-mobile-gold-trump-phone-deposits-t1-device-fcc/

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga

Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits

The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.

Fortune
Frankie ✅2d ago

98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing

The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of the pledges are not backed up by evidence

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2523798-98-per-cent-of-meat-and-dairy-sustainability-pledges-are-greenwashing/

#news #science #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #environment

98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing

The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of the pledges are not backed up by evidence

New Scientist
Frankie ✅2d ago

Russian debt defaults are surging, with a quarter of the bond market at risk, while Putin hides in bunkers fixated on his war instead of the economy

https://fortune.com/2026/05/09/russian-debt-defaults-bond-market-risk-putin-bunker-ukraine-war-economy/

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini

Russian debt defaults are surging, with a quarter of the bond market at risk, while Putin hides in bunkers fixated on his war instead of the economy

There were 11 technical defaults in 2024, 24 in 2025, and already 11 in just the first three months of 2026, according to Izvestia.

Fortune