Nick Stowe

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

[GTFan @SouthRecruiting]

Want to know the worst part about of this?

Colorado and Stanford absolutely suck.

[CanesHQ @CanesHq]

@On3 When the Protect Gas Prices Act passing?

[Shelton Moss @SheltonMoss21]

I just looked it up... it has never happened.

Virginia Tech-Pitt will be the first matchup in the history of modern college football to feature two unranked, 4-0 major conference teams.

It has only happened three times in ANY Division I game ever.

[William Qualkinbush @QualkTalk]

There are 6 ACC teams ranked inside the top 25 of ESPN’s strength of record rankings.

5 of them are unranked in the AP poll, including Duke which is 10th in SOR.

Results only matter for some teams, clearly.

[Chris Fallica @chrisfallica]

Are we really going to do that thing where Missouri stays ranked all season despite not beating anyone? Wake goes to Louisville and beats No. 16 and they can’t crack the poll?

[Shehan Jeyarajah @ShehanJeyarajah]

Playing Iowa's gotta the be the worst thing ever, they don't do anything for 54 minutes and suddenly you're losing

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

“Aww is the mass surveillance company worried about being surveilled?”

[jxke. 🧸🎰🃏 @cantguardjake]

Watching Cooper Rush play Quarterback is like getting stuck behind an old person walking really slow like it isn’t your fault but I gotta be annoyed at someone

[Jake Mastroianni @ShortStopBall]

I can’t even have College Gameday on in the background while I hang out with my kids on Saturday morning anymore. Lost count of the number of curse words Pat has let out in the first 5 minutes of the show. Ridiculous and unnecessary for a show I used to love so much.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

Obviously love Game Day, but as a kid who loved it too, and now with kids of my own who I hope grow up to love it, the cursing has to stop. It’s unbecoming of that show. It adds nothing and subtracts a lot from the fun, wholesome roots the show was founded upon.

[The Hooburrito, a burrito by Hoobastank @sug_knight]

Idk if this is a stupid question but why do they make people in the healthcare field do 24 hour shifts when their jobs are uhhhh pretty important to be alert for

[Clevta @Clevta]

After GT converted on a 3rd down past midfield around 4m left they proceeded snapped the ball with 12 seconds, 14 seconds, 10 seconds left on the play clock before they converted on a 3rd down to get to the 2m warning. 36 seconds completely wasted for no reason. Just incredible incompetence. This is so basic

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

There’s like 3 separate ways Georgia Tech easily could’ve won that game 😭

• 85-yard scoop & score called back due to an extremely early whistle (GA Tech wins 20-14).

• Their elite kicker missing an easy field goal in the first half, he was 17/17 from inside 40 last year (GA Tech wins 16-14).

• Clock management that deliberately left Colorado time (GA Tech wins 13-7).

Absolutely brutal loss.

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

If Georgia Tech used the entire play clock correctly down the stretch vs Colorado, they would have won the game.

On their drive leading by 3 starting with 7:35 left in the game, they snapped the ball far too early on offense several times. In the video below, I compiled all examples from the drive. They could have burned an additional 83 seconds of game clock by doing this correctly.

When Colorado took over down 6 with no timeouts, they had 1:40 to work with.

If Georgia Tech had been using the whole play clock, they would have left Colorado with 17 seconds needing 75 yards, a nearly impossible task.

[Galen Hall @galenhall]

lol georgia tech rushing to call timeout when colorado is about to spike it. In a game that would've been over if GT hadn't left 15 seconds on the clock 4 plays in a row for zero reason.

[Doug Kezirian @DougKezirian]

After long GT first down, Brent Key managed the game EXACTLY how Colorado would've wanted:

- spike (stupid decision)
- safe throw to sideline to stop clock (fine but suboptimal)
- 3rd Down run to center ball (even though not chip shot)

Pathetic execution

[Terry McAulay @tjmcaulay]

The Referee’s announcement is unclear but it sounds like the runner was ruled down.

If so, Replay should have reviewed. It’s obviously a fumble with a clear recovery by the defense who would be awarded possession at the spot of recovery.

If it was ruled the runner’s forward progress was stopped, then the play is not reviewable.

The fact that the whistle was blown prior to recovery is irrelevant.

If the official’s ruled it was an inadvertent whistle, Replay could review and award the ball to the defense.

[Gavin McHugh @gavinmchughh]

Update:

worst call of the season Thursday of week 1

[Tanvir Sandhu @designbytanvir]

Made my own attempt at a Hawks city jersey some time ago

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.