Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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The Meta datacenter in Zeewolde applied to receive drinking water for use in cooling (presumably because it is well filtered). The municipal water company rejected the application.
Context is an article on the national institute for public health in NL issuing a warning there might be a shortage of potable water in 2030. Overuse, pollution and increasing droughts (climate heating) are listed as the main reasons. For a country which is essentially a river delta that is pretty intense.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-13-9567/ today in sentences: a fart in the wind, a duck engendered, from id to super-ego, other people's parents, poppets
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BREAKING: "This is not a place of honour? No esteemed deed is commemorated here? Not so fast, says archaeologist Erik Jones, digsite lead
happy new The Hold Steady and new boygenius albums day to all who celebrate
me: talks about how recent financial precariousness has been really stressful for most of therapy
also me: goes to a bookstore and buys a novel after therapy
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WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!
Our board just voted to rescind both the layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation at our publication—and you were a huge part of it. THANK YOU! You proved to the world that #TexasNeedsAnObserver!
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-observer-no-layoffs-remains-open-board-vote/
wild spring break shenanigans
the console log on H&R Block's tax software is really something else
wild spring break shenanigans
doing my taxes
"feel like we really need to be more cautious about widespread use of capitalism until we can make sure the capitalism doesn't have bias"
convinced myself there's a music genre called "murder surf"
why is looking at a screen still such a pain post-thesis, this is so annoying
new bad idea
a play based on the events of the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop) with a chorus of screaming rocks
It's wild to think like ten years ago the energy consumption of data centers was basically treated as a non-issue and now it's used in weird propaganda framings where (implicitly usesless, bad) "cat videos" hinder (implicitly good, important) ammunition manufacture. If it were any other tech company's data center or an IX or even crypto I think this framing would be very, very different.
Infrastructure!! Is!! Political!!
(via @robinsonmeyer on the twetes dot edu)
remembering the time I ruined @nasser's day when I told him people call it "scrollytelling"
world pol, israel
I don't want to come across as a smug "why are you shocked" guy and also I am still having a hard time with "oh no must protect democracy in the apartheid enforcing ethno-state"
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Has anyone noticed that all the new Telstra pit covers have a little NFC logo in one corner? I scanned one and sure enough, it’s a blank MiFare tag embedded in the plastic.
Unfortunately iPhone won’t write to it because it’s not already NDEF formatted, but an android device probably would.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-13/ this week in sentences: metallurgy, as new as tomorrow, the missiles may have always already been launched, more ancient, glittering electrons like cocaine
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