https://www.eldiarioar.com/politica/duenos-litio-nombres-ocultos-fondos-inversion-bancos-extranjeros-detras-boom-minero-argentina_1_10080137.html en español, a new overview of the corporate ownership of Argentina's lithium industry. The fact that most of the big US financial players involved in these mines also own Argentinian sovereign debt bonds is I guess unsurprising but seems kind of important?
look, AA is not perfect and there's plenty of antiquated vibes to it depending on where you do recovery but it's pretty hard for an AA meeting to collect and sell participants' personal information is all I am saying
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/monument-tempest-alcohol-data-breach/ wow, this is extraordinarily bad!!
I don't think we talk about Orthocera enough. Everyone is like "Yeah and then for awhile there were 30ft long squid-like creatures in dunce caps... anyways moving right along..."
And I just want to say "Hold up... HOW long?"
I bet deep in the ancestral memory of the octopus and the deep sea squid they remember... Ancestors. The Pointy Ones.
We need to shut down all evolution until we can find out what's going on!
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
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