it's almost whiskey friday

"upflum," I am saying... "expand good taxpayer-funded programs as you attract new taxpayers," I am asking

this los retros album is nice summer warm night music

feeling good this morning,

good stuff. i love my train

someone please tell this to the 51st [ducks]

2026 (planned) Data centers vs. megaprojects Inflation-adjusted costs, billions USD SIT- 2025₽ Data center capex =$930B in 6 years $750B- Interstate Highway System ® S620B, 37yr US Railroads $550B, 71yr $500B- F-35 Program $400B, 25yr (to date) $250B - $O Apollo Program $257B, 14yr Marshall Plan $170B, 4yr Manhattan-Project -$36B,Syr- 10 20 International Space Station $150B, 27yr- 30 40 Years from start of program 50 60 70 Sources: Company reports, Epoch AI • FHWA • NASA • CRS • GAO • Brookings Al capex = estimated data-centre share of global reported capex at the big-5 US hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle; Epoch AI+ Platformonomics). Assuming DC share scales from +55% in 2020 to =80% by 2026. Excludes Chinese hyperscalers. All costs in 2024 dollars.

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

rallying cry

learning that a coworker regularly recites "all my enemies will fall" to himself to get through the day

Nice

suit jacket with shorts return inevitable. extremely bleak

it's been great. the lack of traffic is amazing and we love the weather, but we've experienced a lot more racism than I was expecting at first. Go Bills

maybe i do want to move to buffalo

a work that hasn't aged a day

pennsylvania unsurprisingly fumbling their numerous cross-state rail trail opportunities

they're gatekeeping them bsky.app/profile/laur...

cc @libbycwatson.com

ted I am begging you to run again

"it's all debt service" they are saying

da drought 3 shows up on streaming... this is going to be my year

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hello fellow prospective mortgage haver

mistake right off the bat is a set number. incentivizes fluff, "stretching it," adding bands to your gratitude list, that sort of thing

lauren bezos spawning new gratitude list discourse?

!!!!!!!

artist friends who will hit you up after not talking for a year and a half on a Tuesday like "I'm here what are you doing" I have a job man

Absolutely inarguable that we are in a new historical epoch of the relationship between objective metrics and sentiment metrics

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

pogacar cruising paris roubaix on 35mm tires, slammed stems cancelled, I tire of bring right all the time

when your social media manager mixes up easter and orthodox easter: