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Secret Agent Peach 6d ago

Dio9sys 6d ago

I'm okay with being known as a toxic AI hater if my toxicity results in less massive gas powered data centers for AI.

Secret Agent Peach Jun 4

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Jun 4

Especially now. More than ever. This is the way.

#LGBTQ #Pride #PrideMonth #DontLetFolksRollAlone

Secret Agent Peach Jun 4

Project Gutenberg Jun 4

The Smithsonian Just Uploaded 1,000 Archival Images To Unsplash for Public Use

By Emma Taggart

https://mymodernmet.com/smithsonian-unsplash/

#Art #Culture

Secret Agent Peach Jun 4

“No industry… has asked local communities “to surrender the amount of land, water, energy, and local control” as hyperscale data centers have.”

Thank you to all the Ohioans (and everyone else) who are standing up to say NO to #DataCenters!

https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2026/06/data-center-opponents-give-ohio-lawmakers-an-earful/

Data center opponents give Ohio lawmakers an earful

More than a hundred Ohioans submitted testimony ahead of state lawmakers’ Select Committee on Data Centers’ single hearing for public comment. Lawmakers heard an array of concerns about the proliferation of data centers around the state — the environmental impact, the cost of tax breaks, and the use of nondisclosure agreements to avoid public scrutiny. […]

Marietta Times

Secret Agent Peach Jun 2

Ben Cox Jun 2

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

Secret Agent Peach Jun 2

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Dr. Lucky Tran Jun 2

Pancreatic is the deadliest form of cancer with a 5-year survival rate of 13%, largely as early tumors rarely cause symptoms as the pancrease is hidden behind other internal organs and there is a lack of a reliable early screening test.

Secret Agent Peach Jun 2

“Aetna said the number of investigations that found likely fraud or abusive billing by #AutismTherapy providers in its private-plan business shot up by 300% between 2024 and 2025”

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/autism-therapy-insurance-bills-880b9dba?mod=mhp

Secret Agent Peach Jun 2

Thank you Maine and Washington for regulating #PFAS as a class and protecting #HumanHealth!

https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/56/4/1.3

States work to protect residents from PFAS as EPA backs down

Christina Heiniger built her Trenton, Maine, home using non- and low-toxic materials. So she was shocked when a 2022 test of her well water showed it was contaminated with so-called “forever chemicals.”

The Nation's Health

Secret Agent Peach May 29

Only one more day to stop by one of these (and more!) cool photo exhibits going on near the Brooklyn Bridge!

Autofiction and Realism in Afghanistan: https://photoville.nyc/exhibition/autofiction-and-realism-in-afghanistan/

The Uncounted: https://photoville.nyc/exhibition/the-uncounted/