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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 11h

And Jacoby Brissett just ran in a TD. Good night for the Wolfpack!

James Curle @jamescurle.bsky.social · 11h

*Will Wade kicks in front door*

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”

Elon Musk: Remember to vote tomorrow in New York!
Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is.
VOTE CUOMO!
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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 12h

With Jacoby Brissett and Bam Knight both playing in Cardinal Red, feels like I’m watching NC State play.

#NFL #AZvsDAL

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CNN @cnn.com · 14h

Why a fast-shrinking Antarctic glacier has sparked fears of ‘catastrophic’ sea level rise: https://cnn.it/4opIyUG

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 15h

If carmakers get rid of CarPlay and Android Auto, most people will return to getting phone mounts and using their phones exclusively.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15h

Few features are more beloved by drivers than Apple CarPlay. Enjoy it while you still can, writes Patrick George.

Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can

The auto industry is at war with Apple.

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 16h

Booo... warmer weather. Boo.

Oklahoma Mesonet @mesonet.org · 16h

If you're needing rain (or cold weather), you might just go ahead and skip next week. #okwx #okmesonet

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

I'm quoted in this article noting that Grokipedia is full of errors:

www.inc.com/chris-morris...

You Need to Check Your Company's Page on Grokipedia Right Now

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor, is prone to errors. Here's how to request edits to your page.

www.inc.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 17h

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 17h

Every IT person after reading this:

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 17h

Art.

Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 18h

Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Bizarre how sure Oklahoma lawmakers seemed that they banned drag performers with a law banning obscene performances ... Now that they found out that, no, it doesn't work like that, they're trying to convince local governments that they have to pretend it does reason.com/2025/11/03/o...

Oklahoma's obscenity bait and switch could ban pride parades and public drag shows

These lawmakers expect local authorities to ban "obscenity" before it happens—a recipe for chilling a wide variety of legal speech.

reason.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that while food banks welcome donations of food, they prefer $$$$$$$. They have deals with grocery stores and suppliers. You can only buy one dollar's worth of food for one dollar, but they can buy several dollars' worth. So don't, like, buy food to donate it, just give 'em the dough.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, when I was going to school they in fact banned calculators in early math classes when they were teaching you basic arithmetic and that was the right choice.

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 20h

I love history.

Math teachers protest against calculator use.

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 18h

While I wish this article didn't need to be written, the author does mention the work of @mesonet.org in developing a high-quality weather network.

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 19h

News: Another fed contract cancelation, this time by the FAA, looks to mean the loss of surface weather observations from dozens of sites, primarily in NC and MD. More: https://tinyurl.com/yp57f2ck

Another federal contract cancelation impacts weather data, with surface observations reduced in North Carolina and Maryland

Monday tropical deep dive focuses on the western Pacific

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

There's one tax credit Republicans didn't kill, and you can use it to update your home's heating & cooling system.

The loophole that could give clean heat a boost under Trump

The OBBBA killed tax credits for heat pumps, but kept them for commercially leased geothermal and thermal storage systems — a path to keep home clean heat…

www.canarymedia.com

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Vortmax @vortmax.bsky.social · 21h

It's all about subscription revenue:

"There is one other crucial difference. Because GM’s software isn’t tied to a phone like CarPlay is, access to the full suite of software requires its own data plan—through GM, of course. "

That'll be another $10/month.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

Software like Apple CarPlay has made the driving experience more convenient. But this and other features stand to disappear in the future as automakers are realizing “how much money they can make from in-car technology,” Patrick George argues.

Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can

The auto industry is at war with Apple.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

Software like Apple CarPlay has made the driving experience more convenient. But this and other features stand to disappear in the future as automakers are realizing “how much money they can make from in-car technology,” Patrick George argues.

Enjoy CarPlay While You Still Can

The auto industry is at war with Apple.

bit.ly