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[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It’s become impossible to ignore the way that people online make fun of my opponent for things that have nothing to do with her policies or politics. It’s unkind and unhelpful. If you support me, please stop.

Focus on the issues: Congresswoman Stevens has welcomed corporations and special interests to support her. She votes to send our money abroad while Michiganders struggle. She’s bought by DTE, Blue Cross, Big Tech, and Big Pharma who pick our pockets. AIPAC, Trump-aligned billionaires, and corporate PACs are spending $50,000,000+ to support her.

THOSE are the issues. We don’t need to be unkind to be honest.

[Miguel Serna @miguelfserna]

Discourse surrounding the AI usage in this project is so silly.

Code is fundamentally different from art for its utilitarian value, we're pursuing a specified outcome. A problem with a lot of vibe coding is that people tend to miss the more meta parts of the outcome (maintainability, scalability, and security) and just focus on producing the correct output.

However, I've personally contributed (0.15%) to the SSB Melee decompilation effort, and I can assure you it is some of the most mind-numbing work out there. You're reverse-engineering random ass functions that you cannot even map to in game behavior, hoping to produce an output that literally matches a binary 1:1. I cannot think of a better task to hand off to AI.

[sam @sam_chat5]

what ages more poorly: Nate Silver claiming Eric Adams is a dark horse 2024 nominee or that one guy claiming Platner is a dark horse 2028 nominee

[sam @sam_chat5]

it's true all of boston just jumped out of their windows i can hear the sirens but the truck is empty the firefighters jumped out too

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BLOCKBUSTER: The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

[sam @sam_chat5]

missed opportunity here to add “Knicks in five” to the end

[sam @sam_chat5]

we need the Scots back in Boston annually i need to hear them say the Yankees suck like once a month

[sam @sam_chat5]

just got irish profiled by the Scottish at the red sox game celebrating Scottish identity

[sam @sam_chat5]

@timerube @TPSIOfficial and they’re pretty consistently boosting only the groypers and crackpots too…

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - Florida Governor primary

🔴 Donalds 42%
🔴 Fishback 39%

TPSI #C - LV - 6/9

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Cactuscali19912 Stephen Miller is an ugly fuck.

[sam @sam_chat5]

hmm

[Dalton Pruitt @daltonleepruitt]

They got a white Indian now

[sam @sam_chat5]

@skytopjf these conversations frustrate me so much because food is more expensive than ever, and we’re in a cost of living crisis.

but i’ve never in my life spent $28 on lunch, or $70 on an uber, and i live in the third most expensive city in the US. wtf are people DOING

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This tweet is a complete lie.

What's actually happening is that a supply contract between two utilities is ending, and the small one is just buying power from elsewhere, and this was all expected to happen since 2009.

The company that serves homes on the California side of Lake Tahoe is a small utility called Liberty. Liberty buys about 75% of its electricity from a much larger utility, NV Energy in Nevada, and generates the other 25% itself from solar farms it owns. Liberty then sells that to 49,000 customers. NV Energy has told Liberty it will stop selling them wholesale power after May 2027.

It's kind of like Liberty's a coffee shop that buys beans and sells coffee to customers. The customers are the homes, and the beans are the electricity it buys from NV Energy or makes itself. This is like your local coffee shop ending a contract with a specific bean company and started buying the beans from somewhere else. It doesn't stop you from buying coffee.

Why is their contract ending with NV Energy? NV Energy selling to Liberty was understood as transitional since it started in 2009. Long story short, NV Energy was basically Liberty's only wholesale option, but a new transmission line opening in May 2027 gives Liberty access to a much wider Western market, with among other things a much larger share of solar and wind and hydro. That's the whole story here. Ending the contract with NV Energy and opening up this much wider pool with much more renewable energy was the plan here completely separate from data center demand.

NV Energy is ending the contract right as the new high-voltage transmission line comes online, and is opting not to extend past that date. In its filing with California regulators, Liberty said NV Energy cited growing data center demand as one of several reasons it would not offer another extension. But the town will have the high-voltage transmission at that point. No one's losing power. This was always the plan.

This is like if a local coffee shop were buying beans from Starbucks, and then started buying beans from somewhere else instead, and the headlines all saying "Nearly 50,000 people have been told that Starbucks will stop providing coffee to them, because it's redirecting it elsewhere."

MPU just chooses to send out these unbelievable lies and gets millions of views every time.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

The "30 million gallons" figure was over 6 months. Fayette County Water System produces 17.3 million gallons per day. The data center used a little less than 1% of the county's water.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

When I say the country is institutionally rigged for Republicans I’m talking about how Virginia gets their maps struck down after a two year process involving multiple legislative sessions and a statewide referendum but Tennessee can just decide not to enfranchise Memphis anymore

[lei @leilurrr]

what is mamdani going to do about the slayyyter presale that sold out in 30 seconds

[sam @sam_chat5]

and personally i’m still not pro rent control! but the reason why is that that “if” is really, really difficult to figure out while a laser focus on “just build bro” is not nearly as error prone

[sam @sam_chat5]

this is a great article and I highly encourage everyone to read it, but the takeaway isn’t and shouldn’t be a wholesale endorsement of rent control. just that it’s another policy with trade offs and *if* implemented smartly can blunt the bad side effects

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good
https://t.co/ha1VB6M1k0

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

This is the kinda shit that makes it impossible to be completely anti AI, this is legitimately magic software, replacing menial work nobody wants to do