Adam Houle
@houle.bsky.social
Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC.
www.adamhoule.com
www.adamhoule.com
Hello, I live in Data Center, SC. My days are spent with a can of compressed air in each hand. I alternate between huffing the compressed air and blasting flecks of chicken shit off the backs of processors.
Georgia's largest utility wants to spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next six years to serve data centers.
Georgia Power says it needs a huge increase in power capacity to meet data center demand
Georgia's largest utility wants to spend more than $15 billion to increase its electricity capacity by 50% over the next six years to serve data centers.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hello, I live in Data Center, SC. My days are spent with a can of compressed air in each hand. I alternate between huffing the compressed air and blasting flecks of chicken shit off the backs of processors.
This is a second gen no tail squirrel. Our families are close. We do the OBX together every season.
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is a second gen no tail squirrel. Our families are close. We do the OBX together every season.
LinkedIn is something🤣
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
LinkedIn is something🤣
Did you see this, @sgunning.bsky.social? The full memo is linked to in the thread. What will this even look like in practice? What a nightmare. So many good people are on the market I suspect.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Did you see this, @sgunning.bsky.social? The full memo is linked to in the thread. What will this even look like in practice? What a nightmare. So many good people are on the market I suspect.
This doesn’t account for the flood map appeals, which allowed the owners of Camp Mystic to avoid higher insurance premiums. Weather alerts are only part of the issue in Kerr County. The Texas Observer’s covered it too.
Texas officials are requiring youth camps to have weather alert systems, mandated emergency preparedness plans, and various communication methods to help children and their families feel safe when they return this summer.
Texas summer camp owners prepare for more mental health issues among youth after July floods
Texas officials are requiring youth camps to have weather alert systems, mandated emergency preparedness plans, and various communication methods to help children and their families feel safe when they return this summer.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This doesn’t account for the flood map appeals, which allowed the owners of Camp Mystic to avoid higher insurance premiums. Weather alerts are only part of the issue in Kerr County. The Texas Observer’s covered it too.
How ring hoarding by Sméagol is ruining Middle Earth
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How ring hoarding by Sméagol is ruining Middle Earth
It just gets worse and worse.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It just gets worse and worse.
Justin Fields could have been a great quarterback. His head and confidence got scrambled by garbage coaching.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Justin Fields could have been a great quarterback. His head and confidence got scrambled by garbage coaching.
Side eye from a sluggish little lizard
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Side eye from a sluggish little lizard
Coup de recumbentibus
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Coup de recumbentibus
I just read the word “seacation” and feel sick.
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I just read the word “seacation” and feel sick.
This is a necessary—and challenging—read. I’m struggling to shake the image of a child using a plastic spoon to play in lead-contaminated dirt and then putting the spoon in her mouth. I don’t have an answer except to be careful in my consumption and advocate how I can. And, honestly, it feels hollow
The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is a necessary—and challenging—read. I’m struggling to shake the image of a child using a plastic spoon to play in lead-contaminated dirt and then putting the spoon in her mouth. I don’t have an answer except to be careful in my consumption and advocate how I can. And, honestly, it feels hollow
Ooof
Imagine "Him" talking to you through a lattice in a confessional booth... 😵
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus
Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ooof
ChatBotChrist. This is unhinged bullshit, people.
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
ChatBotChrist. This is unhinged bullshit, people.
Uh oh
Maybe the male loneliness crisis is actually a male personality crisis
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Uh oh
Duolingo’s stock dropped 26%, which means we only have 74% to go. The CEO is an anti-education, ai-loving, profit-maximizing bootlick. Let it rot. That owl is way too cool for the likes of Luis von Ahn.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Duolingo’s stock dropped 26%, which means we only have 74% to go. The CEO is an anti-education, ai-loving, profit-maximizing bootlick. Let it rot. That owl is way too cool for the likes of Luis von Ahn.
#mossrules in a run of moss on pavement.
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#mossrules in a run of moss on pavement.
Curtis Swila looks like a retired Street Fighter character.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Curtis Swila looks like a retired Street Fighter character.
Reposted by Adam Houle
All I know is something like a bird within her sang. All I know she sang a little while and then flew on.
We'll miss you, Donna Jean. You are now and forever one of the Grateful Dead.
We'll miss you, Donna Jean. You are now and forever one of the Grateful Dead.
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
All I know is something like a bird within her sang. All I know she sang a little while and then flew on.
We'll miss you, Donna Jean. You are now and forever one of the Grateful Dead.
We'll miss you, Donna Jean. You are now and forever one of the Grateful Dead.
A carpenter bee died in the night holding a lantana flower in our front yard. There are less lovely ways to go. #flowerreport
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A carpenter bee died in the night holding a lantana flower in our front yard. There are less lovely ways to go. #flowerreport
