We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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Parabéns, Eraldo!

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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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I love everything about this.

Yeah, it's even worse today here in South Bend.

I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke

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i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here

Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?

Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.