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“A data center like Meta’s … typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day … Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken.”
Paywall-free gift article:
Paywall-free gift article:
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“A data center like Meta’s … typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day … Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken.”
Paywall-free gift article:
Paywall-free gift article:
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Here's something to consider when pushing AI. How fast will it burn the planet with its water usage alone? What good is AI when there are no humans to use it because they've all died of dehydration?
Every time you use AI, a lot of water gets used.
"Meta's Georgia facility, per the Times, "guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day," or about 10 percent of the total water used in the small community surrounding it."
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"Meta's Georgia facility, per the Times, "guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day," or about 10 percent of the total water used in the small community surrounding it."
share.google/t3m75QttJPiI...
Turns Out, Meta's AI Data Centers Use Up a Lot of Water In Addition to Electricity
Something that hasn't gotten enough attention is whether the entire AI enterprise is even sustainable, given how the computing power currently required, scaled upwards, uses incredible amounts of ener...
share.google
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here's something to consider when pushing AI. How fast will it burn the planet with its water usage alone? What good is AI when there are no humans to use it because they've all died of dehydration?
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Super depressing but important article about the “New Lavender Scare” developing in the US Federal government at the moment.
The anecdote about the nonbinary person sobbing as they had to delete their own history from government websites really got to me: slate.com/life/2025/03...
The anecdote about the nonbinary person sobbing as they had to delete their own history from government websites really got to me: slate.com/life/2025/03...
It Was One of the Most Shameful Episodes in U.S. History. Federal Workers Are Watching Trump Try It Again Before Their Eyes.
History is repeating itself in a terrifying new way.
slate.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Super depressing but important article about the “New Lavender Scare” developing in the US Federal government at the moment.
The anecdote about the nonbinary person sobbing as they had to delete their own history from government websites really got to me: slate.com/life/2025/03...
The anecdote about the nonbinary person sobbing as they had to delete their own history from government websites really got to me: slate.com/life/2025/03...
Withholding funding that saves lives is horrifyingly immoral. TB is an insidious disease and if it’s what kills you, a truly terrible death.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut? www.bu.edu/articles/202...
March 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Withholding funding that saves lives is horrifyingly immoral. TB is an insidious disease and if it’s what kills you, a truly terrible death.
This…
Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
It’s who our government is for.
Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires, including the richest person in the world — or for the rest of us?
March 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This…
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This whole article is grim reading, but I did a literal double-take when I read this sentence:
"A study published this month by the James Hutton Institute found that after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%."
"A study published this month by the James Hutton Institute found that after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%."
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This whole article is grim reading, but I did a literal double-take when I read this sentence:
"A study published this month by the James Hutton Institute found that after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%."
"A study published this month by the James Hutton Institute found that after four years of sewage sludge spreading, microplastic levels in the fields it tested rose by up to 1,450%."
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
Read this. It’s happening to green card holders now. Next?
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read this. It’s happening to green card holders now. Next?
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NEW:
Trump's USDA secretary claimed a $600,000 grant was used to study transgender men's menstrual cycles.
In reality, the grant she canceled was funding research to develop sustainable, reusable and disposable alternatives to synthetic feminine hygiene products.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Trump's USDA secretary claimed a $600,000 grant was used to study transgender men's menstrual cycles.
In reality, the grant she canceled was funding research to develop sustainable, reusable and disposable alternatives to synthetic feminine hygiene products.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW:
Trump's USDA secretary claimed a $600,000 grant was used to study transgender men's menstrual cycles.
In reality, the grant she canceled was funding research to develop sustainable, reusable and disposable alternatives to synthetic feminine hygiene products.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Trump's USDA secretary claimed a $600,000 grant was used to study transgender men's menstrual cycles.
In reality, the grant she canceled was funding research to develop sustainable, reusable and disposable alternatives to synthetic feminine hygiene products.
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
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March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Some really interesting stuff in here to consider about listening to people and uniting around shared fears: www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
The US Has Never Been More Divided on Climate. Here’s How to Build Bridges (and It May Surprise You)
In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California. I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. One partic...
www.desmog.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Some really interesting stuff in here to consider about listening to people and uniting around shared fears: www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/t...
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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Hunger strikes have already started.
Inmates (one of whom is a teenager) are being held in solitary cells.
Families have no info on where their relatives are. One mother only spotted her son when a photo appeared in a newspaper.
Huge credit to the Miami Herald for its reporting on this👇
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Inmates (one of whom is a teenager) are being held in solitary cells.
Families have no info on where their relatives are. One mother only spotted her son when a photo appeared in a newspaper.
Huge credit to the Miami Herald for its reporting on this👇
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‘Give us back our sons’: A look at the Venezuelan migrants Trump sent to Guantanamo
Biking on the wrong side of the road. Crossing the Rio Grande on foot. Shoplifting at Target.
www.miamiherald.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Hunger strikes have already started.
Inmates (one of whom is a teenager) are being held in solitary cells.
Families have no info on where their relatives are. One mother only spotted her son when a photo appeared in a newspaper.
Huge credit to the Miami Herald for its reporting on this👇
2/
Inmates (one of whom is a teenager) are being held in solitary cells.
Families have no info on where their relatives are. One mother only spotted her son when a photo appeared in a newspaper.
Huge credit to the Miami Herald for its reporting on this👇
2/
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Whitman's timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life
Whitman's timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
www.themarginalian.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Whitman's timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life
Whitman's timeless advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life