President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/…
Bills running back James Cook reports to mandatory minicamp amid desire for new contract: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6416090/2025/06/10/bills-james-cook-reports-mandatory-minicamp-contract/
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…
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
The israeli-american genocide of the Palestinian people continues. It’s not just israel. It was never just israel.
“‘This is an administration that is committed to Palestinian erasure, both physical and political,’ Elgindy said. ‘The signs were there even in the first Trump term, which nominally supported a Palestinian ‘state’ that was shorn of all sovereignty and under permanent Israeli control. At least now they’ve abandoned the pretense.’
Yousef Munayyer, head of Palestine/Isr…
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Bengals first-rounder Shemar Stewart sounds off on lingering contract dispute https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-first-rounder-shemar-stewart-sounds-off-on-lingering-contract-dispute
Micah Parsons reveals plans for Cowboys training camp amid contract drama https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-reveals-plans-dallas-cowboys-training-camp-amid-contract-drama
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Could Packers WR Bo Melton be two-way contributor? 'I like to run for days' https://www.nfl.com/news/could-packers-wr-bo-melton-be-two-way-contributor-i-like-to-run-for-days