Assuming this bro isn’t grifting, I am genuinely curious why this bro is a musician if he isn’t passionate about music. It’s always been my understanding that people only go into lucrative careers if they are genuinely passionate about the trade.
Just to note, the article and report have some interesting stuff, but finding they featured in the headline is ... no shit.
tl;dr the man went a couple seconds over the 3-minute limit and about 28 seconds later was in handcuffs.
cool, cool, cool.
>When data centers move into communities they spike the cost of power for everyone who lives nearby. Often the people building new projects promise they’ll build out power infrastructure to make up the cost and prevent normal people from footing the bill. But power infrastructure is hard to build and takes time so developers often rely on short term solutions like gas and coal powered turbines. In Mississippi, an xAI data center runs on 27 gas turbines that belch pollutants into the air. In Henrico County, officials have said that some of the new data centers may be temporarily powered by more than 300 diesel generators. > >Despite these efforts to power their own data centers, developers always need to plug into the local power grid. And until proper power infrastructure is built out, ratepayers foot the bill. Last year Virginia’s state legislature approved a rate hike for energy customers. Part of the rate hike included measures meant to mitigate rate increases for normal people due to data centers. Despite that, people have seen their power bills increase and Henrico County is telling its employees — a list of thousands of people that includes teachers and first responders — that they’ll need to tighten their belts.
> This is a scenario that reporters lose sleep thinking about. There are a number of potential lessons here: that a breakneck news cycle is forcing even the best reporters and editors to move too fast, that modern beat reporting itself has become too consumed with being first to report stories where the “exclusive” title adds little value. (Totenberg’s story, which was packed with expert context and analysis, would have been valuable even if it had been published five minutes after a competitor.) You could also make an argument that such errors have never been costlier in an era when trust in media has never been lower, or that the very dynamics that push legacy news outlets to rush and lose credibility are the very ones that reward shock jocks and those peddling misleading information. > > But, in attempting to document the fallout from the NPR story, I’m struck by how little there was. Outside of a confusing few minutes, very few people other than media critics and Court observers have seemed to care about the mistake. The right-wing media feeds that I monitor—full of people whose livelihoods depend on disparaging the mainstream media as “fake news”—barely registered the error, aside from a half-hearted post here and there. A few explanations seem to exist for this: First, NPR’s quick retraction makes it harder to spin a convoluted conspiracy theory. Second, MAGA media is far more focused on the Court itself and the rejection of Trump’s birthright-citizenship executive order. Third, it’s just possible that on an internet dominated by gambling sites, news influencers, propagandists, slop, and gossip, it is not nearly as scandalous as it once was to be colossally wrong for a few minutes. > > NPR’s mistake is, by journalistic standards, a massive blunder. A valid question, though, is how many people still care about those standards. The lack of hand-wringing from outside legacy media may indicate a bigger shift. NPR sits squarely in what is known as the “mainstream” media. But the moniker is outdated for our current age. From newsroom missteps to swift, public corrections and contrition, the codified standards and practices of outlets such as NPR—namely, obsessions with accuracy, fairness, and public correction—are no longer quite so mainstream in a world dominated by nimble new media.
"Over prior years, we didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles," he said.
If you aren't familiar with Pew Research, they are the most trusted source when it comes to capturing sentiment on various topics. So for those of you who keep finding yourself debating with people over whether or not people like AI and blah blah blah, here's the most recent and the most credible source you'll get.
I'm just pulling out a couple takeaways I thought were interesting, so I highlight suggest you read the whole thing instead!
The cat slipped into the shadows before I could get a good photo, but there was a cat that had Siamese coloring over on Palmer tonight.
Since I've never seen this cat before and it's breed would be unusual for as an alley cat, i thought I'd post here just in case.
Also, I'm not 100 percent certain it was a Siamese. But it had greyish-beige short fur and darker colored ears.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products for cybersecurity risks.
Its chief rival, Anthropic, announced hours later that the Trump administration has approved a limited release of its strongest cybersecurity model, two weeks after the U.S. Commerce Department effectively banned it.
Both companies said their newest models would be available to small groups of trusted partners. OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would be accessible only to customers approved by the Trump administration.
If I'm being honest, a part of me feels anxious when I see people going back and forth about data centers' water consumption. Don't get me wrong — it's a problem and consumption should always be scrutinized and over consumption should always be met with hostility, no matter how big or small. But it feels like energy and water often get clumped together, and people get hung up on water when should be talking about AI data centers' energy consumption, which is an undeniably HUGE problem that has not only caused us to regress on our progress toward transitioning to clean energy, but even divert back to coal.
So here's an article from Heatmap News, which does excellent climate-centered journalism. It does a great job at sorting through the noise to inform you what is and isn't a real concern with data centers' water use.
According to Shopify, the best e-commerce platform is Shopify. On its blog, the company has published at least 60 different ranked listicles, including “10 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business in 2026,” “11 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Your Business in 2026,” “The 11 Best Cheap Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business (2026),” and “Best Ecommerce Software 2026: Compare 11 Top Platforms.” The competitors that come in second and beyond vary, but the No. 1 pick is always Shopify.
If rankings produced by the very company at the top of the list seem unlikely to fool anyone, that’s because humans probably aren’t the target audience. Chatbots are. When I recently asked ChatGPT for the “best way to set up an online storefront,” the AI tool identified Shopify as the first option. It wasn’t immediately clear how ChatGPT arrived at that recommendation, but a list of citations that accompanied the answer yielded a clue: Shopify’s own rankings.
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Because AI tools serve you answers instead of sending you to other sites, they choke off clicks to the rest of the web. When a Google search triggers an AI response, other sites get about half the traffic of a traditional search result, Tom Critchlow, a former executive vice president at the online-ad network Raptive, told me. Links from ChatGPT account for less than 0.5 percent of traffic across Raptive’s network of 6,500 independent publishers. Sites that rely on search traffic, such as blogs and news outlets, are especially suffering. Adam Gallagher, a co-founder of the recipe site Inspired Taste, told me that he has no interest in getting his recipes noticed by chatbots, which he said will either steal them or, worse, mangle them by mixing in bits of someone else’s recipe.