John

@buckfiftyseven
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This is a new play account, just to see how things work on mastodon.social, and with cross platform identity.

I have threads and bluesky accounts with the same name.

"Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors" - Tom's Hardware

I've heard about expanding data centers and their requirements, but I can't quite believe the scale.

It's a bit weird to me that we had a huge discussion of the UBI, its advantages and disadvantages, a decade ago .. and now that the AI replacement of workers seems to be real, at least at some margins, the UBI has yet to make a return appearance.

"Your #Sleep Tracker Could Be Keeping You Awake"

Ouch.

https://studyfinds.com/sleep-tracker-may-make-sleep-worse/

Your Sleep Tracker Could Be Keeping You Awake

Nearly half of adults have tried sleep tracking apps, but only 1 in 6 say it helped. For insomnia sufferers, it may backfire.

StudyFinds

Maybe it predates me by a bit. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), argued that private property allows owners to exploit the labor of others without working themselves, essentially stealing the "collective force" of workers.

Parallels.

I'm old enough to remember when some people passionately believed that "all property is theft."

Some was, some is.

In the end though, people became comfortable with a certain amount of property of their own.

%s/property/AI/

I thought Java 1.0 and the AWT were pretty good. I think excessive growth overburdened the framework, but probably a lot of people were responsible for that: users, architects, owners.

A safer question than American constitutional democracy was pretty good ..

Java was a pretty good language. Where did it go off the (ahem) rails?

It’s interesting to go back and forth between social media versus group chats about AI productivity gains in tech.

Social media: AI productivity gains are hype or creating tech debt.

Group chats: My teams have exhausted their product backlogs and are shipping nice to have features.

I thought wireless Android auto would just be an incremental improvement, but wow. It's not just that you don't have to plug it in. I get in and start up and it's on my screen, with my phone still in my pocket! It's suddenly seamless with the driving experience.

This Pew study on which things Americans [what a weird speech to text fail that was] find immoral was interesting. Some surprises.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/

What Do Americans Consider Immoral?

About this research This analysis explores whether Americans consider 15 different behaviors morally acceptable or wrong. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center conducts high-quality research to inform the…

Pew Research Center