Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company, as the data center developer faces issues in securing an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/ai-data-center-project-troubles-texas
Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-finally-admits-russia-economy-215355032.html
"The IEA advised countries to promote public transport, give private cars access to city centres on alternate days, encourage efficient driving habits, avoid air travel where possible and switch to electric cooking."
This is actually sound advice from Faith Birol. But it should be the norm in the face of ecological overshoot and climate collapse.
Meanwhile UK ministers are beginning to panic.
"Don't panic!" they cry, in tribute to corporal Jones.
«Ça me prend presque autant de temps d'aller relire ce que l'IA a fait que de l'avoir fait moi-même et lŠ, je trouverais normal que mon employeur me dise: ‹mais attends, est-ce que tu es vraiment en train de gagner du temps ou est-ce que tu es juste en train de t'amuser avec un gadget?›»
Est-ce peut-être pourquoi Microsoft a labellisé Copilot «for entertainment purposes only»? Ça ne me semble pas vraiment un «secret de productivité».
Some thoughts from Claude about military use of AI in targeting.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYIHIM6ihVJ/?igsh=cmM1ZmdjaDl3bzJ5
Cowboys Headlines: Schedule fallout; what if Pickens is long-term plan at WR over Lamb? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/16/news-headlines-may-15…
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee
have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel
demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic
that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel
at the expense of taxpayers.
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Unexpected oof.
"People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. Your father had probably gotten his way for so long that he thought he was untouchable, and that is a dangerous way for a person to feel."
-Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.
#Mattermost threads are terrible. Messages vanish in that weird sidebar and nobody sees them anymore. You can't answer to a message ( :signal: #Signal-style) and not have it vanish in the threads sidebar. 😩