Traveling far afield, without phone or internet! It was so beautiful.

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Additionally, it has a nice "fuck them" ring to it.

But if Repubs can make clean energy permitting terrible, what choice do Dems have but to sign on to "permitting reform" and hope Repubs will, contrary to the last 20 years of evidence, uphold their word? They can focus on distributed energy, which requires fewer permits and is broadly popular.

"Permitting reform" bill text will certainly mention provisions that seem to make permitting clean energy less terrible (in addition to protecting/expanding fossil fuels). Dems would be fools to believe Repubs will follow the spirit or letter of those law provisions.

Be still my heart.

If they also add in a cafe with good hot chocolate...

Fair wages and protections (inadequate in both cases) for us, not for them....

Laws are not laws if they don't apply equally—unless of course "we" want to go back to the days of the 3/5 compromise.

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

"To bend would also dishonor the legacy of those who did not bend."

We need Is Seattle a Hellhole? With pics over the Market and Sound, over the city towards the mountain, the ferris wheel and a ferry maybe, and definitely in VP or the Arboretum....

What an absolute dolt (as well as a transactional bastard, a bully, and a tool for big business).

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

Also cars. Congestion pricing makes asthma rates plummet....

Could we maybe address all the fucking coal first?

"I don’t have any idea how to survive in a forest...but do I have any idea what I’m doing NOW?...I’m going to lie down on the soft forest floor like a baby deer, & I’m going to stay there."

Yeah, that's the whole ballgame for anyone in a "relationship" with AI, right?

It's so brittle and sad, but also so very dangerous.

I mean, I guess she's a "virgin", in the sense that she hasn't had sex...BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T EXIST. But she hasn't NOT had sex, either!

She's sort of Schrödinger's virgin, as is every woman he's ever dreamed up in his sad & creepy fantasies. Except she needs more than observation to be real...

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The good people of Portland could offer them coffee, pizza, beer. Great coffee! Great pizza! Great beer!

Solidarity for screwed federal employees...

He needs five years to "flee"? Perhaps he doesn't know what the word means?

When he says the admin's mission is "as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat", it shows he doesn't understand its mission, which is to get all the fucking mice. That's it.

The rest is his own dark fantasy.

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

I heard a "get your vaccinations now!" ad on a podcast yesterday and was...VERY SURPRISED that it was a message from the CDC.

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WA peeps, today is the LAST DAY to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations.

So if you, too, think that we should keep closing rural hospitals & cutting food bank funding so that we can be vassals to our tech overlords & offer them h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶a̶c̶r̶i̶f̶i̶c̶e̶ tax exemptions, uh, say so!

"Seattle taxpayers were paying a hefty $4,200 a month per empty room — at a time when thousands of Seattleites were without a roof over their heads."

How many houseless folks died in that year, Mayor Harrell?