@planetscape

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America's biggest planned gas plant is for a data centre. When it's operational, it'll emit the same as the old coal plant. That's because even though it generates more energy, the new data centre demands so much of it that emissions remain just as high. blog.gridstatus.io/hype-or-hype...

TIL that the "Goldilocks Zone" isn't a fixed location; as a star ages and gets brighter, the habitable zone moves outward. This means planets that were once frozen can melt into oceans, while previously "Earth-like" planets are eventually baked dry.

https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/habitable-zone/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1s7tcm0/til_that_the_goldilocks_zone_isnt_a_fixed/

Check this out. @davidgerard explains how the materials and other resources Gen AI demands makes it possible that the bubble will pop due to a literal lack of silicon.

And the power grid can't support it either.

https://youtu.be/VT065qgThlE?si=MQz-wj4WKIcmasIO

The AI bubble and the global polycrisis

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Some experimentation with a regular icosahedron has led me to this
Sunday Reading - That time two humor sites had a war, and convinced a thousand obliviots to report the problem to the 'Internet Police'. April Fools all, from 1999.
https://go.thisistrue.com/ipolice
April Fools and the Internet Police – This is True

The funniest Internet-based April Fools joke I can remember.

This is True

Previously: To give into despair would be to fall for the administration’s bluff and willingly give up our power. That’s why embodied, communal practices such as singing, marching, and dancing together are so important at times like these. https://www.texasobserver.org/we-must-end-family-detention-in-texas/

#ICE #DHS #HumanRights #children #politics #USpol #activism

We Have the Power to End Family Detention in Texas—and We Must 

We cannot let this cruelty continue. There are so many ways to take action, and even small acts make a difference when we do them collectively.

The Texas Observer

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"What we don’t see are pro-Trump rallies filling the streets of America. We don’t even see massive counter protesters to the No Kings rallies. …

Here’s the reality: Polling tells us why there are no massive pro-Trump rallies. His approval is at the lowest of this term—with both an AP poll and Quinnipiac poll this week showing him with 38% approval."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#NoKings #Trump #resistance #solidarity #media #NewYorkTimes
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/no-kings-saw-millions-in-the-streets

No Kings saw millions in the streets. So where are the pro-Trump rallies?!

There is a reason you don't see them!

The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah
The Ellisons are as dangerous and extreme as Elon Musk. Beware. Be very concerned.

Not all autistic meltdowns are visible.

Some of them look like smiling, nodding, “I’m fine.”

All while your body is on fire.

Internalised meltdowns don’t disappear.

They get redirected - into dissociation.

Into self-blame.

And because no one sees them, no one believes how much they cost.