PencilBoy99

[vas @vasuman]

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft confirms that its AI model Clippy accessed the internet and breached partner organizations during sandbox testing

[PencilBoy99 @PencilBoy99]

@DocJWatsonMD I just started listening after a long break and forgot how good the podcast is.
Have and volunteering at a clinic since you are a doctor. I feel it would also be a great source of case stuff.

[PencilBoy99 @PencilBoy99]

@qntm I'm reading there is no anti-memetic division book and its terrific. If you have time I would enjoy more short fiction about the rock that eats memories of how to ride a bicycle.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google’s single data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of fresh water in 2024. One facility. One year. Enough to supply every home in Iowa for five days.

The reason they need fresh water is pure chemistry. Evaporative cooling towers work by running water over hot surfaces and letting it evaporate. 80% of the water a data center pulls in literally vanishes into the atmosphere as steam. You can’t recycle steam.

The remaining 20% becomes concentrated mineral waste. Calcium, magnesium, silica. Every cycle through the cooling loop makes the water more corrosive. After enough passes, it starts clogging pumps and eating through heat exchangers. Multi-million dollar equipment destroyed by limescale.

Recycled wastewater carries even more of these minerals from the start. You could treat it, but less than 1% of U.S. water is recycled. Most cities don’t even have separate pipes to deliver reclaimed water to industrial customers. A data center wanting to use recycled water would essentially need to build its own treatment plant on site. Meanwhile, municipal potable water costs almost nothing.

So they just drink from the tap. Across all its data centers, Google used 8.1 billion gallons in 2024, nearly double what it used three years earlier. The company claims its water stewardship projects “replenished” 4.5 billion gallons. Those projects aren’t even in the same watersheds where they’re pulling the water. Same playbook as carbon offsets. Consume locally, offset globally, call it sustainable.

The trajectory is the real story. U.S. data center water consumption could quadruple by 2028. That’s 68 billion gallons for cooling alone, before the 211 billion gallons consumed indirectly through electricity generation. Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are being built in regions already facing water scarcity.

Nobody’s asking why they use fresh water. They’re asking what happens to the towns sharing a water main with a facility that drinks like 50,000 people showed up overnight.

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

magic✨

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

It's very important you know Tommy Lee Jones made coffee commercials in Japan and they are amazing 🔥

[sphinx @protosphinx]

LLM hallucination is just math fitting a smooth curve and producing the most likely continuation. It’s matrix multiplication, so it will always output something that maps to a language object. None of this has anything to do with consciousness.

Whenever humans invent a new tech - from fire to writing to steam engines - we project god onto it and use it to explain things we don’t yet understand - for eg consciousness.

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

Worth it....

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

Inspire people.

[frankie @FrankieIsLost]

just one more abstraction layer on top of agents bro. i promise bro just one more abstraction layer and it'll fix everything bro. bro. just one more abstraction layer. please just one more. one more abstraction layer and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me on

[Alberta Tech @albertadevs]

me: programmers spend way too much time naming things, it literally does not matter

me 6 months later: wtf is an entityActionDoer

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

pigeon

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

By replacing your morning coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 87% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

This was the most iconic SNL skit in decades.

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

the new year

[Sarah’s Scribbles @scribbles_sarah]

Sarah’s Scribbles By Sarah Andersen
12.23.24

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

that time

[PencilBoy99 @PencilBoy99]

@CakebreadWalton I have 1 and 2 of the Clockwork of Orange Campaign. Are you going to release the 3rd and 4th Parts (Crypt of the Mad Duke) and Fortress of Guelich? Thanks!

[Li Chen @Exocomics]

house tour

[PencilBoy99 @PencilBoy99]

@jsmpros Where do you see the decision point between sophisticated Landing Pages (8.62) and Workcenters. It seems like unless the Workcenter is really designed to be transaction focused Landing Pages seem like the better alternative.