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Chase Woodruff
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Because DOC is a "criminal justice agency" under Colorado's open records laws, it has much more power to withhold information from the public than other agencies governed by CORA. It says the redacted information in the Trump DOJ's Peters letter was withheld as being "contrary to public interest."
The information you are requesting is denied pursuant to C.R.S. 24-72-305(5), contrary to public interest. The Colorado Department of Corrections is a criminal justice agency, and criminal justice records are not "Public Records" (see C.R.S. 24-72-202(6)(b)(I)).
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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After multiple requests and quite a long delay for a single-page public document, the DOC finally produced the letter yesterday. But more than half of it was redacted.
A copy of a letter sent by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to the Colorado DOC requesting a transfer of Tina Peters: "Dear Director Stancil: The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) respectfully submits this request to initiate the transfer of a state inmate from the Colorado Department of Corrections to federal custody for the purpose of serving a state-imposed sentence within a federal correctional institution."
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I will accept endless variations on the basic correct structure of seven good movies > significant gap > prequels > enormous gap > Rise of Skywalker
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I especially love "giant birds with solar panels for wings" as if neither he nor his listeners have ever seen a picture of a satellite before
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Man I love these guys. Who else is brave enough to do 15 seconds of pro forma throat-clearing skepticism at the top of 15 minutes of breathlessly glazing Silicon Valley's bold new plans to violate one or several laws of thermodynamics
Kevin Roose So a couple companies, including just recently, Google, have now announced that they are exploring a data center in space. Casey Newton Which sounds like a joke when you say - building anything in space seems so impractical, so expensive, so doomed to failure, that it truly does just sound like a joke. But what you're saying to me right now, Kevin, is that there is a legitimate, serious plan to try to do this. Kevin Roose Yes, I also thought this was like some kind of crazy, science fiction moonshot thing. And it is like an experimental thing. No one is doing this today. But Google has put out a paper on what it calls Proiect Suncatcher. Kevin Roose No, these would be - if you look at some of the mock-ups that some of these companies - there's another company called Star Cloud that's a startup that's got some funding from NVIDIA. And if you look at the mock-up that they have made, it kind of looks like a giant bird. But the wings are these very thin solar panels, these sort of arrays of solar panels. And the center of it is these clusters of computers, essentially. And it's just kind out there orbiting in space. And the wings are kind of catching all of the sun. And they're feeding that energy into the computers at the center of the cluster. Casey Newton Got it. So we're in one of these giant, terrifying, bird-like structures that are swarming over the Earth in this future. And they're getting so much energy from the sun. And it's so efficient. And that is driving all of the compute that's happening inside the computers. How does whatever is happening inside the giant, terrifying bird get back to us down here on Earth in a timely fashion? Kevin Roose That's a great question. And I asked this to a couple people I talked to over the past week or so who have been working on this stuff. And what they told me this is actually not that much different from something like Starlink. You're sending data from a satellite, or a series of satellites, back to Earth. It's not that far away. It's not like these are light years away. It might take a couple more milliseconds than you would take to transmit something here on the Earth. And that is actually something that how to do. Kevin Roose I think they're serious about this. And I think they are looking out to a future, 5, 10, 15 years away, where the demand for AI and AI-related tasks is just essentially infinite. It's like, this is not something that 10 percent of people are using every day. This is something that 100 percent of people are using constantly, that there are entire companies or sectors of the economy that have been fully turned over to AI. And maybe that happens and maybe it doesn't. But if it does happen, we're going to need a lot of energy and a lot of data centers. And we may run out of land and power here on Earth. Casey Newton Now, something that I did not realize until after I had read about Suncatcher is just how many other companies are looking at doing the same thing. Can you give me a high level overview of who else is playing here? And does it seem like anyone else is further along than Google is right now? Kevin Roose Yeah, so as I mentioned, there's this company, Star Cloud, which is a Y Combinator startup that got some funding from NVIDIA. They are the main ones here doing this. There's also a company called Axiom Space that is doing this. And we think that there are some Chinese companies, or at least one Chinese effort to do a space-based data center, although they've been a little bit vague about the details there. And then "The Information" had an article about some comments that Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos have made, suggesting that maybe they are also interested in or looking at doing something like this.
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM