Andy Farnhan
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.” — @boriscrito.bsky.social
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It’s crazy that chiropractors are still a thing and didn’t just disappear after a craze in the 90s or whatever. The guy who invented it claimed that a ghost taught him and didn’t believe in germ theory
March 5, 2024 at 7:19 PM
It’s crazy that chiropractors are still a thing and didn’t just disappear after a craze in the 90s or whatever. The guy who invented it claimed that a ghost taught him and didn’t believe in germ theory
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The Independent has made some major headway on the story of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary OK high schooler who died after being brutally beaten by older teenage girls at school.
They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.
They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they we...
www.independent.co.uk
February 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The Independent has made some major headway on the story of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary OK high schooler who died after being brutally beaten by older teenage girls at school.
They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.
They've found reason to believe Nex was bullied for being nonbinary, making it likely this led to their death.
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If someone you know was taken in by the claims of "2,000 Mules," let them know that True the Vote, source of the sensational vote-stealing allegations, has now conceded in response to a court order that it can't produce backup data and a secret whistleblower it claimed to have.
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing
A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.
apnews.com
February 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM
If someone you know was taken in by the claims of "2,000 Mules," let them know that True the Vote, source of the sensational vote-stealing allegations, has now conceded in response to a court order that it can't produce backup data and a secret whistleblower it claimed to have.
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The locking stuff up at Target is officially dumb as hell. They got the socks under glass.
February 15, 2024 at 4:11 AM
The locking stuff up at Target is officially dumb as hell. They got the socks under glass.
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Let us be clear: This is a fraught moment, and one that has polarized not only Americans but people all over the world. It demands incredible sensitivity and strict adherence to journalistic standards of objectivity, and simply put, that is something we aren’t willing to do.
‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That
The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped ...
www.theonion.com
October 13, 2023 at 3:08 PM
Let us be clear: This is a fraught moment, and one that has polarized not only Americans but people all over the world. It demands incredible sensitivity and strict adherence to journalistic standards of objectivity, and simply put, that is something we aren’t willing to do.
I just thought of the game.
October 13, 2023 at 5:30 PM
I just thought of the game.
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starting to think some of these courtroom sketch artists lost money on FTX
October 11, 2023 at 4:34 AM
starting to think some of these courtroom sketch artists lost money on FTX
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