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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

Is there a particular reason they couldn't put these on the coast and use sea water? bsky.app/profile/gspe...

Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

From Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social.

Google said that its data center planned to use an estimated 169 liters of fresh drinking water per second to cool its servers. In other words, the data center could use more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the entire population of Cerrillos, roughly eighty-eight thousand residents, over the course of a year.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

yes exactly. I remember when there were lots of earnest believers, that was like 25 years ago. The modern right is just like straight up "god told me to be greedy." The most obviously non-believing stances imaginable bsky.app/profile/hell...

Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 8h

these people are so much more atheist than I am. The God they refer to does not exist in any capacity, even in their hearts and minds. They're barely even invoking it as a concept. It's just a declaratory statement about themselves, every single time.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

I think we can make this thesis a bit more specific, Fox News in particular controls the discourse on every topic because they know how to push the story they want and are basically immune to ratings concerns bsky.app/profile/dave...

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

The healthiest thing you can drink is probably just plain tap water. This has "no nutritional value" if by nutritional value you mean calories, protein, amino acids, vitamins etc. But it definitely has nutritional value in the sense you'll die without it. And so we find various means to flavor it

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think it really makes sense to say coffee "has almost no nutritional value." Like, which beverages have nutritional value by this metric? Did coca cola write this bsky.app/profile/thea...

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

I hate coffee but enjoy free trade, what kind of -ism is that

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

"give them information" yes exactly, it's kind of wild how everyone has completely forgotten this original purpose of the press briefings. Obviously Trump is the worst but even Biden/Obama eras the press treated it more as a place to do performative "tough questions" rather than basic fact-finding

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 7h

Facebook claims to have end-to-end encryption over group chats and yet... bsky.app/profile/klon...

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 8h

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

also like ancient indigenous gold keeps disappearing from museums, these museums are under constant threat and you're distracting the security. A gold torque, I believe the oldest extant piece of welsh gold work, recently was stolen for example

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

this started with the anti-oil people who initially carefully designed their stunts to not actually damage the art, which still mostly polarized people against their cause but at least was mostly harmless. But now it's a steady trickle of stunts gone wrong by activists who don't understand the game

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

We can't go back in time and produce different, better works of art, ancient art is a non-renewable resource and you're burning it

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

I don't care much about toppling statues of confederates that were installed by the KKK, but in other domains the whole vandalize paintings in museums thing has become way too normalized in activist circles.

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

Similarly all the game machines, fortune tellers, etc you see at all the restaurants are also scams meant to wear parents down. It's honestly not fair to parents

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

a friend put his old phone in one of the "buy your used phone" atms and it gave him like a dollar. Yes it was dumb to fall for it (how can an ATM discern what your used phone is worth?) but people are so trusting, if it's in a Kroger or whatever it must be legit

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

the bitcoin scams dwarf all the other scams but pretty much all of these atm-like machines at stores are scams and this doesn't get talked about enough bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 10h

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11h

the liberal version of the "NPC" slur is "muppet." You're the only adult human in a muppet movie

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11h

there's some hope Netanyahu will first see the inside of a prison but yeah, everyone's treating the "ceasefire" like a peace treaty, when really the main thing that has changed is Hamas ran out of hostages after a long slow attrition

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11h

I am pro calling this part of anti-trust. We need more creative anti-trust thinking than the usual block mergers or maybe occasionally threaten to break up one particularly dominant company

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11h

Can I wear my King Philip II costume at the no kings protest

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 11h

and her employees are even dumber

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 12h

Trump's quotes kind of work if you make them about actual ruins

hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 12h

Article has RFKjr's face but I actually haven't seen any reporting that proves RFKjr is even aware this happened. Can a journalist just go up to him and test them, like literally ask, "did you fire hundreds of disease detectives at CDC" and see what he says bsky.app/profile/mcbr...

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 12h

Federal health workers targeted in weekend firings | AP News apnews.com/article/trum...

Federal employees in mental health and disease control were among targets in weekend firings

Federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the weekend.

apnews.com

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 14h

Also he presents 500 dealers as a large number but in a region with 9 million inhabitants I think it's actually pretty low. He clearly just made it up because he has no idea what a realistic number is here

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 14h

I really wish people would think more about push polls like this. This poll says nothing about how prevalent people think drug dealing is. Also note how the poll actually proposes a *lighter* sentence than what the law actually prescribes (deportation instead of prison)

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 15h

just kidding, the center of every black hole is actually a wizard using a Fidelius charm

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