Got in a little trouble at work because I refused to let the marketing department make any changes to the technical documents and info I send to customers.
But I don’t care. Nope, not gonna do it, never gonna happen.
Day: April 8, 2026, 2:11 PM
It’s Final
You do have to wonder what kind of ridiculously strong crack they are all smoking.
Renee Christine – Appalachia (Live From The Barn)
Gorgeous performance.
Bisc
Every political side has quite a few absolutely tardbiscuit beliefs that they just cannot give up.
The left:
1) Binary sex isn’t real.
2) No evolution occurred above the neck.
3) Humans are a blank slate (and all related to that).
The right:
1) Climate change isn’t real.
2) Vaccines don’t work.
3) Markets automatically solve everything.
No side has any monopoly on truth or thinking coherently. Which is why I have no side.
Grapefruit – Julia Engelmann
Es ist schon schwer, nur mit den Mitteln einen Song durchgehend interessant zu machen, aber sie zieht das durch.
Five Days at Memorial
I didn’t watch this show for years because I didn’t think I could handle it.
After more than two decades, I’m still angry about how we chose to treat our fellow Americans post-Katrina and about George W. Bush’s utter incompetence. However, even in the first episode it’s a good look at the lack of preparedness at all levels, and how none of the interlocked systems of our society really had any plan for a disaster of that nature.
And it’s very human. I recommend it, though it is fraught with recapitulation of the pain of a very bad time in American history.
Overstart
We’ve been told women never do anything like this. The reality is they do violent-ass destructive shit quite often, but are very rarely punished for it and don’t receive nearly the disapprobation that men do for the same things. Because they are “not a threat.” (Right.)
My own mother was the violent one when my parents got divorced, so I know this is true. She attacked my dad several times and destroyed a lot of his stuff. Some of which I used, so it pissed me off too.
Men only wish they could get away with the absolute bullshit many women do.
Mod DC
Ooh, ooh, I know this one!
First, there are various types of data centers. Not all are water-cooled. Some are only air-cooled. And there are various types of water cooling. The answer also is heavily dependent on climate and type of datacenter. There is no one pat response to a question like this. As is usual with life, the permutations are endlessly complex.
However, these days when people say “data center” they usually mean “AI data center” because that is all they are aware of. And in reality, the concern about water usage (as Noah Smith pointed out) is really displaced anxiety about AI-related job loss. So the water use question already starts out in epistemically-shaky territory.
First, let’s talk baselines. The average 18-hole golf course in Texas uses roughly 275,000 gallons a day of water. You rarely see many complaining about that, right? And that’s a lot. That’s enough water for around 1,000 households. And in another side note, there are about 430 18-hole golf courses in Texas, and about 13,000 in the US total.
The most common data center type now which is an ~100 MW AI aggregate data center uses about 387,000 gallons/day. That is about 1.4x the Southwest golf-course median. Also, a lot of water. I’d argue that this DC is doing something a lot more useful than letting some old dudes hit a little ball around, though. I’ve seen claims that a single AI data center uses as much water per day as large cities, which isn’t remotely true for even the densest, 250 megawatt evaporatively-cooled DCs. These, however, can use about 3.2 million gallons/day. There aren’t many of those facilities, though. Probably around 20-40 in the world only. Houston (as an example) uses around 475 million gallons per day of water.
So, data centers — at least AI data centers — do use quite a lot of water, but the usual reports I see misrepresent this number by 10x to 1,000x. Having the real facts is important. Else you’re just dealing with fantasy, which helps no one.
Microsoft Hasnโt Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold.
Europeโs rearmament meets reality: the story of a failed frigate project.
From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability.
Scientists Watch Brainโs Self-Cleaning Process During Sleep in Real Time.
Hedge funds make record bets against European stocks.
A century ago, people used large ice blocks and wooden cabinets to keep food cold. Today, electric refrigeration is more affordable, easy, and reliable thanks to technological innovation. The shift from ice blocks to electrons shows how human ingenuity can transform necessities from costly burdens into everyday conveniences. And the left wants to take it all away.
NASA engineers call this a โfree return trajectory,โ ๏ฟผ ๏ฟผ but the name obscures the cognitive breakthrough required to make it work. You cannot think about space travel the way you think about any form of transportation that exists on Earth. Obviously AI-written, but still correct and interesting.
Why 'Cost Disease' Is the Secret Force Behind America's Toxic Solitude. Interesting thesis, but I don’t buy it. Makes no sense economically.