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This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

One of the things about long road trips is the need for housekeeping. Day six was spent in Ceduna, getting laundry done, restocking the pantry, sweeping out the van and filling gas bottles. Ceduna has a good bakery and a pub on the foreshore. #RoadTrip

Cardinals WR Wilson in concussion protocol https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45887547/cardinals-michael-wilson-concussion-protocol-colliding-practice-budda-baker

Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.

Now I’m on MIRAC’s mailing list, so hopefully I don’t miss the next one.
Also, though…it is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just •showed up• in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.
That’s the feeling I want us to create: “Wow, these protests are everywhere.”

Buccaneers, QB Baker Mayfield agree to restructured contract that includes more guaranteed money: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6520907/2025/07/28/buccaneers-qb-baker-mayfield-restructure-contract/

Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote
a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux." Aside from
one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work
to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death.
(He died in 1921.)
Most of us know the "Swan" movement rather well, with its smooth,
flowing cello melody against a calm backgr…

Turning AI Data Centers into Grid-Interactive Assets: Results from a Field Demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona
Philip Colangelo, Ayse K. Coskun, Jack Megrue, Ciaran Roberts, Shayan Sengupta, Varun Sivaram, Ethan Tiao, Aroon Vijaykar, Chris Williams, Daniel C. Wilson, Zack MacFarland, Daniel Dreiling, Nathan Morey, Anuja Ratnayake, Baskar Vairamohan
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Turning AI Data Centers into Grid-Interactive Assets: Results from a Field Demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential electricity demand growth, threatening grid reliability, raising prices for communities paying for new energy infrastructure, and stunting AI innovation as data centers wait for interconnection to constrained grids. This paper presents the first field demonstration, in collaboration with major corporate partners, of a software-only approach--Emerald Conductor--that transforms AI data centers into flexible grid resources that can efficiently an…

Tyler Booker opens up on taking over for Cowboys future Hall of Famer Zack Martin https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/tyler-booker-opens-up-taking-over-dallas-cowboys-future-hall-of-famer-zack-martin

Baker Mayfield contract: Buccaneers restructure deal, giving QB guaranteed money for 2026, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/baker-m