...Also, what percentage of the AI and data center demand is being used for genuinely important functions (life-saving medical, scientific, or efficiency practices) and what percentage of the energy use is powering slop videos and bad Google search responses? I worry it is 10% valuable 90% junk,

Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

It’s wild how casually we say “42 million people are on SNAP” like that’s just a normal statistic.

That’s 12% of the entire country—in the richest nation on earth—relying on government help just to eat.

That shouldn’t be a data point we shrug off.
That’s a national emergency.

It's very true that wages need to be fair and the cost of living shouldn't be artificially hiked- like rent- but considering that at least 25% of ANY Human population has some kind of disability, many are elders or children, 12% receiving food assistance is actually PAINFULLY low.

this week's newsletter has a bunch of quotes from the drafters and supporters of the 22nd amendment that make it extremely clear that there is no loophole you can use to circumvent it. (gift link)

Construction began at Bełżec extermination camp on this day in 1941.

The decision to construct three extermination camps was made at the Wannsee Conference of 1942, at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.

📸 Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. Wikimedia Commons.