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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 4h

Hear me out: Kirby tried to eat a dumpster and he's now stuck in the form of a Wankerpanzer. Kirby should watch his diet 😜

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 6h

What??

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6h

Everything is connected

US government cuts ➡ international public health ➡ US health security

Climate change ➡ disease in new areas

Air pollution ➡ long-term health

But yes, let's slash foreign aid, ignore climate change, and gut EPA regulations. While pretending to care about Americans' health

Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 7h

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Here's what else to know in global public health this week.

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Star Trek Online Developer News @news.stowiki.net · 6h

#StarTrekOnline Developer Blog: Best Laid Plans I
Our Senior Level & Content Designer Fran Ruiz is giving you an exclusive look behind the scenes of the creation of our new episode; Best Laid Plans!
www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/arti...

Developer Blog: Best Laid Plans I

Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go in this expanding vast universe.

www.playstartrekonline.com

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 11h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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random garfield @randomgarfield.bsky.social · 5h

#Garfield 15/07/2021 🐱

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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 4h

This does provide some ideas for resistance...channel your inner Soup Nazi. FBI? ICE? CBP? ATF? no soup for you! No restrooms for you either!

tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 5h

Large group of customers saw the FBI at this pizza joint and noped the fuck out. A few other people seemed to steer clear as well. Has to be terrible for business.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 9h

Classic CBC. "Bill could lead to law enforcement acting more freely in Canada"

How does a US bill lead to this, without Canada actively allowing this? Can we use the active voice? Can we actually use words the way that journalists are supposedly able to?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 1d

More than 100 top Trump administration officials in charge of energy and environmental policy have ties to the fossil fuel industry. One of them described her job as as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies.

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ 'Fossil Fuel Insiders' to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles

One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

US judge blocks Trump's deployment of National Guard in Illinois reut.rs/47jAO0g

US judge blocks Trump's deployment of National Guard in Illinois

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another U.S. judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Oregon.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5h

America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result.

Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that.

The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.

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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 4h

Lil Marco Rubio looks so uncomfortable at all these press conferences. I wonder what's in it for him and if regrets his choices every single minute...

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

I love strange bedfellows votes.

14 senators voted for Rand Paul's "End the Fed’s Big Bank Bailouts" amendment to the NDAA:

Cantwell
Durbin
Hawley
Lee
Lummis
Markey
Marshall
Merkley
Murphy
Paul
Sanders
Scott
Warren
Welch

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 16h

Plyler v. Doe provides some formal protection against such ICE raids and intimidation at schools to the extent it denies access to school for undocumented children. Long overdue to press the issue in court.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 4h

You know Stephen loves mayonnaise? What a weirdo, but with a head like that, what else would you lather on it? So yeah bing bing bong, thank you Jeff for pointing out that a DESERVE a knobel piece prize for all my amazing work stopping global carnage. THAT YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

Apostolos K. @koutropoulos.bsky.social · 4h

"Thank you Jeff Bezos. You know, I've never met a man that has such a phallic head, I mean the guy looks like what my British friends, and I have a lot of British friends, call a knob head, except maybe for Stephen miller... Stephen has a big beautiful knob head...

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

“Thank you Washington Post. Wow!!!”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 8h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...