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Nicole Casal Moore
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Science communicator, former journalist, ex-Rivian. At home in the weeds.
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You can tell the site is really growing because whenever a post does numbers it’s got that classic thing where it’s like

Hours 1-5: friends faving and reposting

Hour 6: angry people demanding an explanation and context for your joke about Chewbacca’s butthole
December 10, 2024 at 3:27 AM
But "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy," right?
Quintuple yikes here
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
December 5, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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A new study finds that growing demand from data centers could jack US electricity prices up 70% by 2029.

Hardship for those least able to pay. Slower economy-wide electrification. For what? Shitty AI no one wants.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Impact of Data Centers on Energy Demand and Market Prices
The number of data centers in the U.S. has increased sharply in the last decade and nearly all forecasts suggest that their growth will accelerate in the next d
papers.ssrn.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM