PASTA LAVISTA BABY @Sam_Rella

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How mathematically impossible is the energy math behind the data center rollout? Just Texas alone is facing 474GW of interconnection requests (ERCOT), of which 90% is data centers. Which is why gov Abbott froze rollout of new data centers in Texas. For context, ERCOT all-time peak demand record is 91.1GW on July 22, 2026, with normal demand between 40 and 80GW. Of course, that's peak. In a more realistic scenario, Morgan Stanley sees the entire US short about 80-100GW through 2030, or a deficit of about 100 nuclear power plants.

I guess this explains a lot around why astronauts look like they aged many years when they return home.

Martin Picard @MitoPsychoBio

a month ago

Cool new findings showing that mitochondrial biology is influenced by gravity. Of the few things that change when cells and bodies leave Earth's surface, gravity seems sufficient to decrease mitochondrial gene expression. If mitochondrial gene expression decreases, it becomes

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Cool new findings showing that mitochondrial biology is influenced by gravity. Of the few things that change when cells and bodies leave Earth's surface, gravity seems sufficient to decrease mitochondrial gene expression. If mitochondrial gene expression decreases, it becomes harder for electrons to flow through the electron transport chain. And energy transformation capacity decreases, possibly increasing energy resistance: how difficult it is for food-derived electrons to reach oxygen in mitochondria. This study follows earlier work in 2020 showing that mitochondrial changes are among the most robust changes that occur with spaceflight. Paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… Accessible commentary: nature.com/articles/d4158…

there it is - microsoft will use kimi k3 to power their flagship copilot ai assistant saving up to 60% per token or $600M on every $1B spent on inference spend. if microsoft chooses to self-host the model once Kimi open sources it on the 27th then this cost reduces even more love or hate these chinese models, open source is really levelling the field in a big way. per the information

NEW: Ozempic is facing a $2 billion lawsuit from approximately 1,800 users alleging the drug caused severe vision loss and is linked to aggressive thyroid cancer.

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🚨 PEOPLE ARE FINDING OUT WHAT LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS ARE REALLY RECORDING — AND THEY'RE FREAKING OUT Most people think these cameras only scan your license plate. That's not what people are worried about anymore. New technology is reportedly allowing authorities to identify and track phones, smartwatches, Bluetooth devices, vehicle systems, and other electronic signals moving through entire cities. Your morning commute. Your gym. Your coffee stop. Your kid's soccer practice. Every trip potentially creating a digital trail. This isn't really about your car. It's about YOU. Who you meet. Where you go. What route you take. What time you leave home. What time you come back. And eventually... where you're likely to be next. Meanwhile, thousands of camera systems are appearing across the country while massive data centers are being built to process and store unimaginable amounts of information. A growing number of Americans believe we're watching the construction of a real-time surveillance network unlike anything we've seen before. What do you think they're preparing for that we're not being told about?

U.S. inflation expectations are collapsing

A/the real reason the world didn't have an oil crisis: "Diplomatic officials confirm the US secretly authorized Doha to transfer funds to Iran in exchange for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and immunity from attacks. The dual policy was intended to curb global energy prices, and served as the basis for the MOU being forged with the leadership of the IRGC." Via @NewSamawal

@jameslavish Big fan of SpaceX. Most of the leftists screeching against it are off-base. It’s also wildly overvalued. From a fundamental analyst perspective at 100x sales it makes no sense. But Tesla at 15x sales and 3 years is no growth doesn’t make sense, either. Can’t short the vibes.

Goldman has increased its forecast for the copper deficit outside the United States from 60,000 tonnes to 640,000 tonnes. Ten times larger. In a market already struggling to find enough metal. The copper crunch is no longer a future problem. Not many are watching this…

Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts.

U.S. OIL HUB CUSHING IS RAPIDLY DEPLETING, RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT CRUDE SUPPLIES: CNN AMERICA’S KEY OIL STORAGE CENTER IS RUNNING LOW ON CRUDE AS INVENTORIES SHRINK

*IEA CHIEF WARNS COMMERCIAL OIL INVENTORIES ARE DEPLETING RAPIDLY, ONLY WEEKS LEFT

Mining companies are generating the highest margins across any sector

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.” We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s. The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse. If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government. Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

If you see a helicopter towing one of these over your neighborhood, bad news: your town is getting a data center. They’re running airborne electromagnetic surveys to map groundwater in the area. TRANSLATION: figuring out how much water they can divert before people notice.

Residents living within a half-mile of new AI data centers are reporting dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption from sound they can't hear. The source is infrasound. Frequencies below 20 Hz sit beneath the floor of human hearing but not beneath human physiology. The body's vestibular system registers low-frequency vibration directly, triggering the same response as motion sickness. The cooling systems and gas turbines running these facilities 24/7 produce exactly this range. Noise ordinances were written for audible noise. Decibel measurements start at 20 Hz. Infrasound doesn't appear. A 200-megawatt data center with tens of thousands of tons of cooling equipment can run around the clock with zero measurable noise violation under any existing zoning law in the country. The developers know this. They're not randomly selecting sites. Rural jurisdictions get targeted because they lack the legal staff, the engineering expertise, and the regulatory framework to mount any challenge. These facilities require new transmission interconnects that take 5 to 10 years to process through utilities. Building behind-the-meter with gas turbines bypasses that queue. Speed to power, zero delay, zero grid dependency. Households who bought before the announcement have two options. Sell at a price no buyer will pay, or stay and live with symptoms their family doctor has no framework to diagnose as infrastructure-related. That cost never appears in a hyperscaler's earnings call. The regulation will catch up eventually. It always does. But the facilities will already be running. The permits will grandfather everything in place. The turbines don't stop when the legal framework finally notices them.

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This is indefensible: Spraying glyphosate over wild lands is ecocide, and toxic to humans, of course. But there is one upside: It allows us to see the full corruption of our system, which pretends to be preoccupied with our health, even as it poisons the world behind our backs.

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

3 months ago

The U.S. Forest Service is spraying glyphosate (Roundup) across tens of thousands of acres of national forests this spring to support commercial timber production. Following wildfires, forests naturally regenerate with diverse shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife. However, a recent

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The U.S. Forest Service is spraying glyphosate (Roundup) across tens of thousands of acres of national forests this spring to support commercial timber production. Following wildfires, forests naturally regenerate with diverse shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife. However, a recent investigation reveals that the Forest Service and private logging companies are routinely applying the herbicide to eliminate competing native vegetation, favoring commercially valuable species such as Douglas fir and sugar pine. This practice has created large areas with significantly reduced biodiversity, often described as "dead zones", where insect, bird, and plant populations have sharply declined. Glyphosate, classified by the World Health Organization as a probable human carcinogen, has seen its use in California national forests quintuple over the past two decades, reaching a record 266,000 pounds in 2023. Local communities, environmental groups, and residents are raising concerns about potential impacts on water quality, endangered species (including salmon and rare foxes), and public health. Critics argue that prioritizing industrial timber production over ecological diversity conflicts with the broader mission of national forests as public lands. The issue has intensified debates over forest management, balancing economic interests with long-term environmental and community health.