stobaugh

Sociology Professor at Arkansas Tech and consumer gadget enthusiast.

[Scott Hanson @ScottHanson]

See you in 6 Sundays.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century.

My Take
This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout.

Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead.

Hedgie🤗

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.

[Bison @Bisontwting]

this is why you need a bison…

[𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓 @MoMohler]

Any person over 40 realizes that this is the Marlboro font. The people in charge of this are clearly under 40.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

Word is it will be split into a trilogy:

THE ODYSSEY I: FAR FROM HOME
THE ODYSSEY II: NO WAY HOME
THE ODYSSEY III: HOMECOMING

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

That Odyssey film really hit a Homer.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭

Low T Pete will never live this down.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Watching The Odyssey on my local gas station, as Nolan intended.

[greg @greg16676935420]

How do I know if I have regular Taco Bell diarrhea or parasite Taco Bell diarrhea

[Mαtt Thomαs @mattthomas]

Thought Nolan’s ODYSSEY was great, in part, weirdly, b/c Nolan finds the “Dad movie” at the heart of one of Western Civ’s urtexts: A dude trying to get home but ignores directions, loves his dog, needs his son to step up, and don’t let his age fool you—he’ll still fuck you up.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Corporate media think we are really stupid. I cannot stress this enough.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[Bison @Bisontwting]

Good morning to everyone except that tourist who almost got me euthanized

[Neet @neet_sol]

The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr”

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.

I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.

I was not prepared for the gas station.

There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.

I counted them because I did not believe them.

A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.

He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.

Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.

A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.

A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.

And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.

The beaver is a saint.

The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.

And the bathrooms.

I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.

I was wrong to dismiss it.

The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.

I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.

A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.

I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.

I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.

I did not need any of it.

I needed all of it.

I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.

I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.

But I did fill the truck.

And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

[Clint Awana @clintoptions]

Want to be profitable in this market? Setup your office right off the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.