AI's environmental impact can be extremely localized. A Maine bill would limit the amount of electricity data centers can siphon from local power grids.
(I'm interviewed for the story)
https://www.bangordailynews.com…
Millions of non-producing oil and gas wells around the world are leaking methane and other contaminants,
contributing to increased greenhouse gas emissions and polluting our water, soil, and air.
The total annual methane emissions from non-producing wells in Canada is 7 times higher than estimated in Canada’s National Inventory Report
The U.S. no longer even estimates it's methane emissions
A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.
Advertisers are shifting millions in ad budgets, particularly in CTV, from The Trade Desk's DSP to Amazon's, driven by lower fees, inventory access, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/marketers-mov
DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation
Jingyu Xiao, Ming Wang, Man Ho Lam, Yuxuan Wan, Junliang Liu, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06251
ASPO: Constraint-Aware Bayesian Optimization for FPGA-based Soft Processors
Haoran Wu, Ce Guo, Wayne Luk, Robert Mullins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06817 h…
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
⛓️💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…
Earlier this year, Elon Musk poured tens of millions of dollars into the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, after spending hundreds of millions to elect Donald Trump.
It looked like our democracy was truly over.
But Blue Future's young organizers pounded the pavement.
We out-organized Musk.
And we defeated his MAGA candidate on a shoestring budget!
Now, Trump has lost confidence in Musk, who's slinking away from the White House!
What's next? …
✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
#politics…