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PinkWolfie
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Urban NDN Auntie in Burque posting and following all kinds of stuff.
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AI has a secret thirst that tech companies rarely disclose. A new methodology for estimating the current water footprint of AI reveals that the total water consumption of AI data centers is now comparable to the entire annual global demand for bottled water.
AI Water Use In 2025 Rivals Global Bottled Water Demand - Profolus
Most AI-related water consumption occurs far from servers.
www.profolus.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A day in the life of an infant orphan elephant is filled with milk bottles, cuddles, mudbaths and games. Why? Because decades of raising elephants has revealed an orphan's psychological health is as important as their physical needs.

Learn how we raise these babies: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...
December 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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“Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry  www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders.
Colorado wolves are on the move - High Country News
Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Probably the best Christmas Eve news I've ever reported:

The VA is legally required to build homes for unhoused veterans in Los Angeles — and homeless vets nationwide might be able to sue for shelter, too.

@longlead.com has been covering this story for 4 years — and we're not stopping here!
The homeless veterans who sued the VA for access to housing in Los Angeles won their appeal against the government yesterday.

The decision was complex, but may be consequential in eliminating veteran homelessness across the country.
homeofthebrave.substack.com/p/homeless-v...
Appeals court upholds landmark ruling in homeless veterans lawsuit against the VA
A long-awaited ruling by the 9th Circuit reinforces an order for the VA to build thousands of housing units for vets — but with some unexpected caveats.
homeofthebrave.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Take all the homes from billionaires and give them to the ocelots.
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Because Musk isn’t content to destroy only one Texas ecosystem.
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social writes that Hanna Pickard’s forthcoming What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine “has changed [his] understanding of [his] habits—and maybe it will change yours, too.” www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
Monster of 2025: Cigarettes
Is dying early really pro-social?
www.motherjones.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Native American Mothers Deserve to Live.
"One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D) this past week stopped me cold: 100% percent of maternal deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native women were found to be preventable.”
nativenewsonline.net/opinion/nati...
Native American Mothers Deserve to Live
Opinion. One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján this past week stopped me cold.
nativenewsonline.net
December 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The LLMs consistently met or exceeded human clinical cut-offs for multiple disorders. Gemini had the most extreme profile. It showed multi-morbid state with its maximum trauma-shame score, severe obsessive-compulsion, and extreme autism.
What Happens When You Put Popular AI Chatbots in Therapy for a Month? - Profolus
A groundbreaking study proves frontier large language models possess stable and hidden self-models of distress.
www.profolus.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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“You can see it easily in places like Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ or the Southwestern Indigenous reservations cut off from access to the dwindling Colorado River, or in Altadena’s slow recovery from this year’s fires” - @nitishpahwa.com

unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...
December 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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the best two minutes you'll spend all day 🐾
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"

cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
cases.justia.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Bad day to be a Waymo (and even worse to be inside or stuck behind one). A widespread blackout left robotaxis stalled across the city, causing traffic chaos Saturday night.

Read more: sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I really wanna go roller skating, but adult skate is 10 pm on Saturdays. It's really close to my house but it I haven't been heading out to something at that time for decades. Can we boot the kids for happy hour old folks skate? Two hours with bar access at 5 pm Sat 1 time a month would be awesome!
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Guns killed 304 bears in 48 hours in Florida. They kill approximately 3,200 humans annually in Florida.
Wildlife defenders and hunters in Florida at odds again as the first bear hunt in a decade proceeds.

The hunt was halted in less than 48 hours after an estimated 304 bears were killed the first weekend. The quota that year was 320.
Controversial Florida bear hunt is taking place mostly out of sight
Wildlife defenders and hunters at odds again as the first Florida bear hunt in a decade proceeds.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Why aren’t you happppppyyyyyyyyy????
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm currently watching Continuum. Terrifying future depicted, one I'm sure all the MAGA cult and billionaires would love to make a reality. They're thinking the sooner the better. We're already on the way.
December 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk. grist.org/global-indig...
Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.
grist.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
www.space.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM