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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27 15:56:24

Musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added Trump’s name to the performing arts center.
Kennedy Center's MAGA Chief Threatens Legal Action Against Redd Over Canceled Christmas Concert
nytimes.…

Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Legal Action Over Canceled Christmas Concert
The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 05:05:51

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-26 16:25:39

Nick Mangold, All-Pro center for Jets, dies at age of 41 after bout with kidney disease nfl.com/news/nick-mangold-dies

Nick Mangold, All-Pro center for Jets, dies at age of 41 after bout with kidney disease
Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold died Saturday night from complications of kidney disease, the team announced Sunday. He was 41 years old.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-27 00:45:31

Grenell Vows To Sue Musician For $1M For Canceling Kennedy Center Show Due To Dear Leader's Renaming - Joe.My.God.
joemygod.com/2025/12/grenell-v

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-26 08:42:40

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

The dark side of AI: Climate chaos, pollution, and injustice 
Unless we have a seat at the table to set regulations, the AI data center boom will hurt Black and brown frontline communities like mine in Roxbury first and worst.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-26 15:54:47

Former Jets star center Mangold dies at age 41 espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/467321

Nick Mangold, former Jets star center, dies at age 41 - ESPN
Former New York Jets center Nick Mangold has died due to complications from kidney disease. He was 41.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-11-27 08:10:09

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom networks.h-net.org/group/annou

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom | H-Net
Rupert Gethin: Mapping a buddha’s mind: some reflections on the Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, and Yogācāra Abhidharma, Thursday, December 4, 5-6:30 PT, 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, USA & on Zoom. 

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-24 15:15:50

Internal email: CBS' standards department told staff to use the Kennedy Center name, saying the change to Trump Kennedy Center needs Congressional approval (Washington Post)
washingtonpost.com/style/2025/

On CBS, it was still the Kennedy Center Honors 
The network kept the Kennedy Center’s original name in its broadcast, and CBS News instructed staff to do the same, an email shows.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-27 20:01:53

A fire at South Korea's National Information Resources Service's data center shut down 647 government IT systems, disrupting services such as postal banking (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
koreaherald.com/article/105847

Fire at government data center halts 647 systems, disrupts services - The Korea Herald
A fire at the National Information Resources Service’s data center in Daejeon late Friday temporarily shut down 647 government IT systems, according to the Mini

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-26 22:20:43

Kennedy Center criticizes musician who canceled performance after Trump name added to building (Steven Sloan/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/kennedy-cen
memeorandum.com/251226/p42#a25

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-25 23:20:22

I think my package is trying to hit all 6 boroughs before it arrives to my house.

Sat, Oct 25 6:45am Processing at USPS Facility STATEN ISLAND, NY 10307 Sat, Oct 25 6:29am Processing at USPS Facility STATEN ISLAND, NY 10307 Fri, Oct 24 12:55pm PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY BROOKLYN NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER, 11256 Fri, Oct 24 7:21am Arrived at USPS Regional Facility BROOKLYN NY DISTRIBUTION CENTER, 11256 Fri, Oct 24 4:50am Departed USPS Facility PHILLIPSBURG, NJ 08865 Fri, Oct 24 3:49am Arrived at USPS Facility PHILLIPSBURG, NJ 08865
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-27 17:58:25

Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as
“a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”,
saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.
Six people detained at the
California City detention center,
which opened in late August and is now the state’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center,
shared accounts with the Guardian of poor cond…

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help
Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies

@mapto@qoto.org
2025-11-25 04:16:53

The AI bubble has now dragged the market of RAM into its whirlpool
theverge.com/news/828337/ram-m

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
The RAM shortage is forcing stores like Central Computer and Micro Center to sell PC memory at market prices instead of advertising prices.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 21:00:51

Frank Ragnow, four-time Pro Bowl center, coming out of retirement to rejoin Lions nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-four

Frank Ragnow, four-time Pro Bowl center, coming out of retirement to rejoin Lions
Frank Ragnow, a four-time Pro Bowl center with the Lions, is coming out retirement to rejoin Detroit, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday, per sources close to Ragnow.

@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-10-25 06:21:00

"Soft-sided tents"?
This is Alex Jones' "FEMA is building detention camps to put us after they take our guns" hysteria made reality and inflicted on whoever Trump wants to punish, no conviction required.
#Utah already did residential schools and Japanese-American internment camps to our eternal shame and guilt. Utah currently has a huge, barely legal teenager an…

Will Utah be home to new ICE detention center?
A new report claims Utah is expected to be the site of a new ICE detention center built by the Department of Homeland Security.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-26 17:11:40

Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-27 15:00:05

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020). 13 nodes, 63095 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_baboons#sensor

sp_baboons — Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data. The observational data contains all the behavioral events registered by an observer, with 8 columns: - DateTime: Time stamp of the event, namely the moment the observed behavior was registered. In case of STATE events (events with duration > 0), it refers to the beginning of …

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-26 17:56:10

A guided aerial bomb hit the CENTER of Kharkiv! 2 KILLED 😱 #shorts: benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/a-gui

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-11-26 22:29:05

In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…

Whitecaps fans gather in a nearby pub before the game.
A portion of a large crowd at an indoor stadium, displaying a huge banner. Left of the banner is text “fire that burns”, center is a vaguely Tolkienesque photo of scary reptilian eyes, right is text "blue melts gold"
Whitecaps fans parade cheerfully down Granville, singing dopey songs and chanting dopey chants.
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2025-10-23 09:54:53

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
wired.com/2012/10/google-finla

Where Servers Meet Saunas: A Visit to Google's Finland Data Center
Google operates nine giant data centers across the US and Europe. And it's building four more in Asia and South America. But only one has a sauna. Yes, that would be the one in Hamina, Finland.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-12-26 08:49:32

OK, I think the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board is ready for design review.
I'll be running through my checklist but would love some other eyes on it, especially by people familiar with such stuff.
github.com/azonenberg/stm32mp2

KiCAD 3D render of a very dense board with a large heatsink in the center, SFP+ in the southwest corner, and multichannel switching power supply north of it
KiCAD layout view of the same board
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-12-26 16:58:32

Hello #39c3

The Hamburg congress center
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-12-27 01:46:20

This might come in handy tomorrow morning.
Originally posted by @….
#infographics #winter

An infographic showing how to walk over ice without falling. In summary: keep your center of gravity over your front leg as you walk. Like a penguin.
@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-11-26 08:02:48

TFW a volcano on your island erupts but you're stuck at 4,200m (13,800 ft) on another volcano full of space nerds. :(

Me among Mauna Kea observatories
Kilauea eruption dust in the distance as seen from Mauna Kea
Live feed at the Mauna Kea information center
Proof of altitude at the accessible Mauna Kea peak
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-26 00:47:02

Somewhat confused how the Detroit Lions with Jared Goff at QB can be losing in the 4Q to the Minnesota Vikings with some guy under center I've literally NEVER HEARD OF. 🤪
But hey, sound the Gjallarhorn... skol, baby!
#vikings #minnesota

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-12-26 08:18:52

Und wieder einmal ist der Tag des Jahres da, wo sich Nerds und Geeks aus ganz Europa hoffnungsvoll in die Hände der Deutschen Bahn begeben und ihre Reise ins gelobte Congress Center Hamburg antreten.
Auf ihrem Weg suchen sie nach Gleichgesinnten und rufen hierzu Hashtags mit ihrer Zugsnummer ins weite Netz hinaus.
#39c3

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-09-27 08:46:40

Errands and stuff day started with reading a bit in the #NationalGeographics magazine.
Btw also follow
@…
#goodMorning

A cover from the National Geographics magazine is shown featuring a captivating image of a tiger. The tiger is the dominant focal point of the cover, taking up a significant portion of the frame. The background is a warm brown color, complementing the tiger's black and grey fur. The overall color scheme is earthy and natural, with a pop of mustard yellow as the accent color. The image is not black and white, but rather in full color. The tiger is positioned in the center of the cover, with text…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-26 06:01:05

The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans (Bloomberg)

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-11-26 14:38:16

Wednesday, December 3, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Columbia Road, Adams Morgan
Carols & Cocoa
#DC

Carols & Cocoa
Will We See You There? Join us at 5:30pm outside The Festival Center (1640 Columbia Road NW) for the 6th annual sing-along and hot cocoa! The hot cocoa will be […]

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-09-27 07:27:59

Book description: "I can't breathe! 3 words ... significantly altered the political, social, and educational landscape of the consciousness of the USA and the world. Many have attributed this ... to the public murder of George Floyd at the hands of Officer Derek Chauvin while 3 other officers looked on. ... The constant struggle to elevate the lived experiences of Black people in the United States was front and center - for about two weeks."
The author of that book has now…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-27 01:07:30

A Sloppy daisy from Shindagin Hollow. Google Lens says that this is a Wild Golden Glow Plant (𝑅𝑢𝑑𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑎) aka Green-Headed or Cutleaf Coneflower
#photo #photography #forest

Yellow flower with 5 very narrow petals witha huge amount of space between them and a big cone in the center.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-12-26 22:21:12

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

This photo shows an organized battery storage case displayed on a colorful Persian rug with red, black, and cream patterns. The bright red storage organizer is meticulously arranged with various types of batteries: Battery Organization: The center features a frame of blue cylindrical batteries (AA and AAA batteries) arranged in neat rows around the perimeter Various sizes of button cell and coin batteries are systematically placed in the corners and sides - these appear as silver/metallic ci…
This photo shows an even more detailed view of a well-organized battery storage system, photographed from above on the same beautiful Persian rug. Top Section - Red Battery Organizer: This contains multiple rows of Kirkland brand AA batteries (alkaline, 1.5V) neatly arranged in a red plastic storage case. The white cylindrical batteries are systematically placed in horizontal rows with their positive and negative terminals clearly visible and marked. There appear to be approximately 40+ AA ba…
This photo shows a package of "Colors Scrub Daddy" cleaning sponges displayed on a wooden surface. The bright, eye-catching packaging features the cheerful Scrub Daddy brand design with its signature smiley face logo. Package Contents: The clear window display shows three colorful sponges stacked vertically: Teal/turquoise sponge (top) with a smiling face Orange sponge (middle) with a smiling face Blue sponge (bottom) with a smiling face Each sponge has the characteristic Scrub Daddy design…
This photo shows the storefront of "Fat Daddy's Hot Chicken & Waffles," a restaurant located in Ann Arbor. Building and Location: The restaurant occupies a ground-floor retail space with contemporary architecture featuring a cream/beige upper facade and brown brick accent column. Large floor-to-ceiling black-framed glass windows and doors provide visibility into the interior. The building has additional floors above with red brick exterior and blue-tinted windows. Signage and Branding: A prom…
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-25 01:13:18

Christmas Eve jazz concert at Kennedy Center canceled after Trump name added to building | PBS News
pbs.org/newshour/arts/christma

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 23:11:21

Lions' Frank Ragnow to unretire: How four-time Pro Bowl center gives Detroit's offense a jolt before playoffs

cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit

Lions' Frank Ragnow to unretire: How four-time Pro Bowl center gives Detroit's offense a jolt before playoffs
Ragnow will reprise his role as one of the NFL's premier offensive linemen

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27 16:31:19

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1151

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-12-26 16:12:51

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
DAYNA: I didn't know Helots were originally from Earth.
VILA: Everyone came from Earth originally. That's a well-known fact.
SOOLIN: It's a well-known opinion, actually.
TARRANT: Most well known facts are.
blake.torpidity.net/m/403/96

Claude Sonnet 4 describes the image as: "This appears to be a scene from the British science fiction television series "Blake's 7." The setting shows a futuristic spacecraft interior with metallic, ribbed walls and angular architecture typical of the show's distinctive production design. Several crew members are positioned around what appears to be the ship's command center or medical bay area. The scene has the characteristic low-budget but imaginative aesthetic that "Blake's 7" was known for,…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-24 23:25:45

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building (Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/12/24/k
memeorandum.com/251224/p67#a25

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de
2025-12-24 09:24:58

Einreiseverbote auch für Musk-Kritiker

Sanktionen verhängte die US-Regierung auch gegen die Gründerin des britischen Global Disinformation Index (GDI), Clare Melford, und gegen den Gründer des in den USA und Großbritannien tätigen Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), Imran Ahmed. Der Brite lebt der Organisation zufolge in Washington, ihm droht nun die Abschiebung aus den USA.
X-Eigentümer Elon Musk hatte das Center for Countering Digital Hate vergangenes Jahr …

USA verhängen Einreiseverbote gegen Europäer - Deutsche betroffen
Wegen angeblicher Zensur hat die US-Regierung Sanktionen gegen Gruppen verhängt, die sich gegen Hass im Netz engagieren. Von den Reisebeschränkungen sind auch deutsche Aktivistinnen und ein ehemaliger EU-Kommissar betroffen.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 00:40:45

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-12-21 23:37:14

Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the mismanagement of PG&E? We need public power s…

A screenshot describing the services offered at PG&E's resource center in the Richmond - and noteworthy is that the hours of operation are from 5 to 10 pm today. (Fwiw the resource center is the Richmond Recreation Center at 251 18th Ave, between Clement and California Streets)
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-12-21 23:37:14

Gee, how nice - #PGE Resource center is open from 5 - 10 pm, and then people without power can go back to their electricity-free homes in the dark at 10 pm. Such service to people left in the dark. When will #SFPUC be allowed to take over the local grid from the mismanagement of PG&E? We need public power s…

A screenshot describing the services offered at PG&E's resource center in the Richmond - and noteworthy is that the hours of operation are from 5 to 10 pm today. (Fwiw the resource center is the Richmond Recreation Center at 251 18th Ave, between Clement and California Streets)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-27 01:00:04

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020). 23 nodes, 3197 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_baboons#observational

sp_baboons — Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data. The observational data contains all the behavioral events registered by an observer, with 8 columns: - DateTime: Time stamp of the event, namely the moment the observed behavior was registered. In case of STATE events (events with duration > 0), it refers to the beginning of …

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-10-27 00:30:02

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🪅
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🪅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

ORWO P400 (FF) English Alt Text: A dimly lit tunnel filled with rows of parked bicycles. The tunnel’s interior is dark, with light pouring in from the far exit, creating a dramatic contrast. A person is silhouetted against the light, walking or cycling toward the exit. Outside, a car is visible on the road, along with greenery and a stone wall. The image captures an urban scene emphasizing bicycle use and the interplay of light and shadow. 中文替代文字： 一个昏暗的隧道里停满了自行车，排列整齐。隧道尽头透进明亮的光线，形成强烈的明暗对比。一名行…
ORWO P400 (FF) English Alt Text: A grainy black and white image of a pond covered with lily pads. In the center, a single white water lily blooms, standing out against the dark water and dense foliage. The water appears slightly murky, and the texture suggests film grain or high ISO photography. The composition emphasizes tranquility and the beauty of a solitary flower. 中文替代文字： 一张黑白颗粒感照片，画面是布满睡莲叶的池塘。中央有一朵盛开的白色睡莲，在昏暗的水面和密集的叶片中格外醒目。水质略显浑浊，图像质感显示出胶片颗粒或高感光度拍摄的效果。画面传达出宁静氛围和孤花之美。
ORWO P400 (FF) English Alt Text: A black and white photo showing a quiet pond with wooden posts emerging from the water. A wooden walkway crosses the pond, partially hidden by tall grasses. Two small human figures are visible on the walkway. Behind the pond is a dense line of trees, and in the far background, tall apartment buildings rise above the treetops. The image contrasts natural serenity with urban development. 中文替代文字： 这是一张黑白照片，画面中是一个宁静的池塘，水面上有几根木桩。一条木质步道横跨池塘，被高高的芦苇部分遮挡。步道上有两个人影。池塘后方是一…
ORWO P400 (FF) English Alt Text: An outdoor art installation featuring curved metal rods forming a tunnel-like structure. The rods are arranged in a rhythmic, undulating pattern. The ground is paved with irregular tiles, adding texture. Trees and buildings are visible in the background, suggesting a park or plaza setting. The structure invites pedestrian interaction and showcases modern urban design. 中文替代文字： 一个户外艺术装置，由弯曲的金属杆构成隧道状结构。金属杆排列有节奏感，形成波浪般的视觉效果。地面铺有不规则的瓷砖，增添质感。背景中可见树木和建筑，表明此处位于公园或广场。此…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 20:29:46

Trivia Thursday: 20 Questions on Chiefs, Thanksgiving history dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-

Trivia Thursday: 20 Questions on Chiefs, Thanksgiving history 
This week's trivia questions center on the history of the Cowboys-Chiefs rivalry but also mixed in with Thanksgiving Day history. 

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-27 17:45:53

Fermi, a data center REIT co-founded by Rick Perry, aims to raise $550M in its IPO at a $13.16B valuation, offering 25M shares priced between $18 and $22 each (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/rick-perr

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-23 15:31:08

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
e360.yale.edu/featur…

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-09-27 11:51:16

Around a third of US adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020; 6% say they paid for news podcasts in the past 12 months (Pew Research Center)
pewresearch.org/journalism/fac

Podcasts and News Fact Sheet
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans' news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-25 17:02:02

Russia destroys $100M EBRD-financed logistics center, kills four truck drivers hours after rejecting European peace plan - Euromaidan Press
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-11-27 06:06:00

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom
ift.tt/ljHu0XW
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP

TALK> Rupert Gethin - Dec 4 - at Mangalam Research Center & on Zoom | H-Net
Rupert Gethin: Mapping a buddha’s mind: some reflections on the Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, and Yogācāra Abhidharma, Thursday, December 4, 5-6:30 PT, 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, USA & on Zoom. 

@lmc@mastodon.social
2025-12-25 08:40:38

San Francisco, Christmas Eve.

View east from Nob Hill, San Francisco towards the financial district. Bay bridge, Transamerica building, Embarcadero Center are all lit up.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-25 20:45:39

Trump fans blast musician who canceled holiday concert to protest Kennedy Center rebrand: 'Super bad TDS' (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
nypost.com/2025/12/25/us-news/
memeorandum.com/251225/p16#a25

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-11-25 01:57:04

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage biologicaldiversity.org/w/news

…

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage
Center for Biological Diversity: Only 3% of 10,000+ Articles Mentioned Meat, Animal Agriculture

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 12:50:42

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 21:16:42

Former Lions All-Pro center Frank Ragnow comes out of retirement to join team nytimes.com/athletic/6840886/2

Former Lions All-Pro center Frank Ragnow comes out of retirement to join team
The three-time All Pro second teamer will be a massive boost to Detroit's offensive line that has struggled at points this season.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 19:58:28

Trivia Thursday: 20 Questions on Chiefs, Thanksgiving history dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-

Trivia Thursday: 20 Questions on Chiefs, Thanksgiving history 
This week's trivia questions center on the history of the Cowboys-Chiefs rivalry but also mixed in with Thanksgiving Day history. 

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-24 02:28:46

Leaves of small beech trees add a yellow accent to this scene in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #forest

Forest scene with a small wood footbridge near the center bottom, most of the forest floor is covered with fallen leaves, there is very little understory, a particularly large stem is left of center, but what really sticks out is numerous yellow leaves from young beeches scattered all around
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-23 03:49:39

BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name
We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social
with our friends at
Washington Litigation Group
Congress named the Kennedy Center
and only they can change it

Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social)
BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it https://www.democracydefendersaction.org/press-release/12.22.25-pr

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-26 16:21:22

Nick Mangold, former All-Pro center for the Jets, dies at 41 nytimes.com/athletic/6751296/2

Nick Mangold, former All-Pro center for the Jets, dies at 41
Less than two weeks ago, Mangold publicly announced he needed a kidney transplant and asked for help finding a donor.

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-12-24 22:54:18

Fat Putin destroyed yet another institution, The Kennedy Center, with his ego, poor taste & stupidity.
Meanwhile, on pg 2 of the following Epstein document:
"Donald J. #Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey #Epstein."

Original post:

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-24 22:40:45

'Smallest audience ever': Kennedy Center Honors tank on CBS after Trump takes over (David Edwards/Raw Story)
rawstory.com/trump-kennedy-cen
memeorandum.com/251224/p66#a25

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-27 05:12:39

The rule violates the law, which requires age to be taken into account, and "will likely cause disproportionate harm to people living in the South and Appalachia." IOW, another way to screw his base...
Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
cbpp.org/blog/trump-administra

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-24 13:25:43

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a "pathetic trainwreck" and "CBS should, 'put him to sleep,' NOW"; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/donal

Trump Attacks Colbert & Says CBS Should Cancel His Show Now: 'Put Him to Sleep'
Donald Trump urged CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert's show 'NOW,' responding to a Dec. 8 rerun in which Colbert mocked his Kennedy Center takeover.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-26 19:57:49

A British anti-disinformation campaigner who was told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US
said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),
is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department
after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American v…

UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’
Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountability

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 15:55:40

Analysis: since 2023, data center power demands have delayed 15 coal plants' retirements; the Trump administration has ordered two power plants to remain open (Ariel Wittenberg/Politico)
politico.com/news/2025/11/27/a

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-26 20:21:24

Dallas Cowboys Face Triple Punishment and Major Injury Setback Before Crucial Broncos Matchup heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-co]

Dallas Cowboys Face Triple Punishment and Major Injury Setback Before Crucial Broncos Matchup
The Cowboys’ offense faces over $57,000 in fines and the loss of starting center Cooper Beebe heading into Sunday’s matchup with the Broncos.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-25 01:54:32

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-27 19:01:32

OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-23 06:13:42

Congresswoman Sues To Remove Donald Trump From Kennedy Center's Name
deadline.com/2025/12/trump-ken

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27 18:11:35

With Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…

Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of power

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-23 04:05:39

House Democrat sues to stop "Trump-Kennedy Center" renaming (Andrew Solender/Axios)
axios.com/2025/12/23/trump-ken
memeorandum.com/251222/p132#a2

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-27 05:40:53

Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-23 15:51:00

MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center merge; Sunlight provides training, tools, and support for investigative reporting, with a focus on local news (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2025/10/rebuildi

Rebuilding the research desk in local newsrooms
A merger between MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center will help slimmed-down newsrooms investigate local governments, public officials, and more.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-22 21:29:40

Vikings activate center Kelly (concussions) off IR espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/470629

Vikings activate center Ryan Kelly (concussions) off IR - ESPN
The Vikings activated center Ryan Kelly from IR after he completed his nearly two-month recovery from a pair of concussions.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-23 00:27:51

Google Is Spending Over $4 Billion on a Data Center Company
gizmodo.com/google-is-spending

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-27 18:20:38

Trump’s brazen approach,
publicly flaunting his corruption,
awards him perverse credit for authenticity
and takes the sting out of scandals that used to be career-ending when uncovered by muckraking journalists.
“This is a dangerous notion that,
just because a president chooses to be corrupt in public openly,
it’s OK,” said Larry Sabato,
director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“People say, well, if it were really corru…

Trump is flaunting his corruption. Is it changing what the US thinks of scandal?
President has shouted from rooftops what his predecessors would have tried to cover up for fear of ending their careers

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-23 03:45:43

Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/poli
memeorandum.com/251222/p131#a2

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27 16:51:40

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-22 16:20:41

Alphabet agrees to acquire clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75B in cash, and existing debt, as part of its push to dramatically expand AI data centers (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-26 21:44:37

Sources: Ragnow ends retirement, back with Lions espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/471114

Sources: Center Frank Ragnow ends retirement to return to Lions - ESPN
Frank Ragnow, a four-time Pro Bowler for the Lions, is ending his five month retirement and returning to play for Detroit, sources tell ESPN's Adam Schefter.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-19 01:13:28

Trump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-20 22:20:54

S&P Global: data center deals hit $61B globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled YoY to $182B, with Meta raising $62B debt since 2022, ~50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/12/19/data-cente

Data center deals hit record $61 billion in 2025 as AI valuation risks and funding concerns grip investors
Hyperscalers are increasingly turning to outside capital in the form of debt to fund the energy-intensive infrastructure.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-18 19:11:02

Board of Kennedy Center votes to change its name to Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says - CBS News
cbsnews.com/news/kennedy-cente

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-27 02:16:49

Kellen Moore doesn't commit to starting QB after benching Spencer Rattler for Tyler Shough

cbssports.com/nfl/news/kellen-

Kellen Moore doesn't commit to starting QB after benching Spencer Rattler for Tyler Shough
New Orleans made a change under center on Sunday

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-23 04:57:19

Climate scientists and meteorologists
are sounding the alarm
after White House budget director Russell Vought announced
the Trump administration will
❌break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR.
“He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann,
scientist and co-author of
"Science Under Siege".
Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate m…

“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 13:01:26

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900 facilities in 50 countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-12-19 00:05:59

Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
usatoday.com/story/news/politi
memeorandum.com/251218/p120#a2

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-12-25 05:49:20

Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
juancole.com/2025/12/kennedy-o

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-24 03:32:21

Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,

Oversight visit brings Rep. McIver back to migrant jail at center of her criminal case - BLKNewsNow.com
NEWARK — Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall, Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-20 10:16:28

US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technol

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-23 14:51:02

Early Look at Maine Primary Races: Platner Leads Mills, Collins Far Ahead of Unknown GOP Challengers 10/23/2025 (University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository)
scholars.unh.edu/survey_center
memeorandum.com/251023/p51#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 14:35:49

Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oracle Says Equity Deal on Michigan Data Center ‘On Schedule’
Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for the company’s data center project in Michigan is “on schedule” and going according to plan.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-23 09:40:39

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (Juby Babu/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/openai-or

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-25 05:25:58

Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B amid the AI data center boom (Junko Fujita/Reuters)
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-25 00:14:35

Websites including YouTube and TikTok this week
removed posts of a CBS News
“60 Minutes” segment on a notorious prison in El Salvador,
where Trump the administration has been illegally deporting Venezuelan immigrants,
after being notified that publishing the clip violated parent company’s copyright.
The segment on the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)
—which was intended to air on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes”
—was pulled by right-wing CBS News ed…

YouTube, TikTok Deleted ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT Clips Amid Paramount Takedown Push | Common Dreams
The segment on the notorious torture prison—where the Trump administration has been unlawfully deporting Venezuelans—went viral on social media after being inadvertently aired in Canada.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-15 03:25:56

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
wired.com/story/the-data-cente

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-17 03:24:29

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 06:11:06

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-14 20:18:44

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-19 17:06:07

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-13 09:10:35

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (Daniel Wu/Washington Post)

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.
A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.