States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals. Blame data centers
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/states-are-struggling-to-meet-their-clean-energy-goals-blame-data-centers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Headlines @headlines-PBSNewsHour

I know you are all waiting for cheap oil, but

"Cutting the carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels to zero is the only way to halt global heating. WWF is also calling for emperor penguins to be listed as a “specially protected species” at the next Antarctic treaty meeting in May in Japan, which would help reduce other pressures on their habitat such as tourism and shipping."

“Human-induced climate change poses the most significant threat. Early sea ice breakup is already affecting colonies around the Antarctic, and further changes in sea ice will continue to affect their breeding, feeding and moulting habitat. Emperor penguins are a sentinel species that tell us about our changing world and how well we are controlling greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change.” >>
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction
#FossilFuels #cryosphere #biodiversity #collapse #extinction #oil #antarctica #climate #penguins #SentinelSpecies

“The exclusion is not based on individualized findings of unlawful conduct by any specific school, but rather on categorical presumptions that Islamic schools are suspect and potentially linked to terrorism by virtue of their religious identity and community associations.” https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/

#racism #religion #education #politics #USpol #Texas #vouchers #schools

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116130499944110898

I’m sure many other have made this observation, but even just reading this post without reading the linked article made me realise (or remember) that...

*All* LLM output is, in fact, a hallucination.

Because the way it formulates a “hallucination” *is exactly the same* as how it formulates a response *we don’t consider* a hallucination.

Same with “good” vs “bad” summaries (and whatever the relative occurrence of each is).

#NoAI #HumanMade

were there really rumors about Melania and Epstein? i mean, it’s obvious she wasn’t his type and was too old for him. was switching tv channels and cringed when i saw her in front of that Trump podium.

#EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein

I love that the US, simply by acting as asshat 8th grade boys in a gorilla chest pounding festival, had the incredible strategy that…

*checks notes

…gave ultimate power to our enemy.

Meanwhile, back in the US, we won’t depose him because…

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…Black people might make the same amount of money as white people.