I can see the advertising campaign for that one already: “Get on the fucking train, Shinji”

I wonder if this is newly built/to be built data centers for AI, or ones that previously existed/ are being built for general web infrastructure. The article doesn’t say.

The age of the DC doesn’t really matter. Its whether it was designed to be an “open loop” or “closed loop” cooling system. Closed loop DC use surprisingly little water because they capture and recycle it. A fast food restaurant would likely use more water than a closed looped DC. The big offending Datacenters for water use are the Open Loop design. These use massive amounts of water.

Close to me there are two DCs under construction. One is a large colocation DC and is closed loop. The other is a new AWS DC, and it is open loop. So as you can see, age isn’t really the determining factor.

So you’re asking yourself, why use open loop at all? Its energy bill is cheaper! Open loop uses swamp coolers (evaporative cooling) Closed looped requires more electricity for cooling using more traditional phase-change coolant (same as residential air conditioners).

If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they’d need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.

“…thats why in these difficult times, I use today’s sponsor, Betterhe*lth.c0m.” /s

Harp, who is in her mid-30s, brings the president stacks of printed-out drafts of social media posts—many of them recycling content from other accounts—for Trump to approve, sources told the Journal.

…and…

"The platform allows Trump to ‘offer’ his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” he added.

Apparently not direct thoughts then. Its Natalie Harp’s direct thoughts she filters and presents to trump for him to have indirect thought on. That is the opposite of unfiltered and direct thoughts. She’s actively fomenting dissent and chaos in the USA. I have no idea what she gains by doing this. Anyone check to see if she’s getting a separate paycheck from Russia?

This tweet from her matches Russian political positions. Especially considering that Russia had seized almost 1/3 of Ukraine when she tweeted this. It was particularly tone deaf on Stein’s part because Ukraine had surrendered its nukes, and its reward was being invaded by the country it gave the nukes to.

Steins dinner with Putin was in 2015, so post invasion of Crimea and over a year into Russian “little green men” invading the Donbas.

First, I’m not stupid enough to go to Russia to celebrate their propaganda apparatus like she did. Second, I notice you selectively ignored the other option of her just standing up and walking away.

You’re working very hard to craft some kind of narrative trying to convince us she has repeated poor decision making (a bad quality for a President). Are you trying to do that because the other, more likely scenario, is the reality she’s willing tool for Russia?

That explanation isn’t helping her cause or that of the Greens. She actively went to a celebration of the Russian state propaganda machine, that is mistake #1. Then, according to you, she made a choice to continue to sit silently a table with Putin. She could have either kept quiet, stood up and removed herself, or she could have exercised some statesmenship and when presented with the President of Russia, challenge him on his policies of invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine killing its citizens and kidnapping its children in the Donbas.

Instead, according to you, she sat silent.

she did not have dinner with putin. this is misinformation

You’re looking at the picture. Both Stein and Putin are sitting at the same table. There is food in front of both. Are you claiming the photo is fake? Or are you playing word games where the meal was something like “lunch” instead of “dinner”?

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately

The Greens on the USA side of the pond do a great job of smearing themselves.

Here’s the US Green Party 2024 Presidential candidate Jill Stein having dinner with Vladimir Putin, members of Putin’s senior staff, and self admitted registered foreign agent for the Turkish government, Michael Flynn.

Further, your DD 5.25" could have been set up in a RAID array so you could have 3 buses full of diskettes and only need two buses to reach the destination to rebuild the whole file system.

This sounds like politicians that don’t understand the technology.

Anyone can create an AI model (including Gen AI LLMs). I personally created on for a hobby project trained exclusively on a series of old public domain novels from the early 1900s. Don’t get me wrong, my AI model sucks and only produced barely coherent responses, but it absolutely meets the definition of an AI model.

So how would this White House action (if implemented into law) affect me and my model?

• Would I have to submit my model to a government agency to run it on my local computer?
• Would it only apply to models deployed for the consumption of others?
• Private companies that build their own AI models purely for internal business purposes not used for public consumption, would they be obligated to put it them through some government process before these models could be used inside companies?
• Is it perhaps not all AI models would need to go through this government approval process, but then what criteria defines a model that would vs one that wouldn’t?

If you are 50+ years old and have insurance, get the damn Shingles vaccine. If you need to be convinced, talk to anyone that has had Shingles. If instead you like spending 3-5 weeks in agonizing pain possibly with nerve damage or loss of eyesight, go ahead an skip the Shingles vaccine.

As long as the transaction doesn’t require biometrics, I wonder if you could have a traditional smartphone (iphone/android) located physically somewhere else, and a self hosted VPN that would allow you to VPN and remote control the traditional smartphone remotely. So you could run the real bank app on real smartphone hardware (no emulation), and not have to carry it having all access through your Linux phone with a remote control client.

The downside is you’d be responsible for the burden for securing this solution, as your banking app would be one of the most critically security data concerns.

Eventually I’ll try my banking apps, which might be the sticking point as I’m not sure I can get those outside the Google App Store.

If it has a full compliant web browser, you’d still have the bank’s desktop website available, yes? Though its possible the bank’s website may not be written with context awareness so usability may be cumbersome, but at least you’d still have access to the information.

…ok I’ve never felt more justified in completely turning off my TCL’s ability to connect to the internet, then.

My main TV is an originally bricked Vizio from a bad update. I was able to buy a replacement logic board for $20 to get the TV to work again. When I reassembled it I intentionally never connected the TVs Wifi antennas to the logic board. The TV has been operating fine for close to 2 years now having never been attached to the internet.

Age verification bypass tool soon to be made illegal:

39% loss in cold is straight up false unless you’re talking like -20F.

My guess is that this number may be possibly accurate for cars without a thermal management system for the battery. In the USA, this would be exactly one car model and even of those there are years where it would be fine: the Nissan Leaf.

The Leaf came out in 2010 and has been air cooled until just this year in 2026. Some models had a battery heater though, but not all. I could see for a model without a heater and extreme cold the 39% range suppression. However, since its only one car, putting that 39% number is disingenuous because it suggest its more widespread when it isn’t.

I’m not putting all my negative feelings into a company sponsored LLM to fucking have it say, “no relax guy, it’ll be OK.” Like it’s a fucking clanker.

I’d be more concerned with any company sponsored AI chatbot therapist using what you say influence your employment relationship.

Employee X: I’m worried about losing my job so I work unpaid overtime and that is affecting my marriage.

Therapist chatbot to management: Employee X should not be given a raise. They already have enough external motivation to work without additional financial incentives.