Israel Humanitarian efforts - Swords of Iron The COGAT website provides all the relevant updates and data about the unit's activity and the civil-humanitarian effort in the Gaza Strip during the Swords of Iron war. Here you can find information...

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Today marks 51 days since any humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. There are 2.1 million people in Gaza who are currently slowly starving to death. 3000 trucks packed full of food, water, fuel, and medical supplies sits in Egypt, waiting to be let across the border.

This absurd tariff situation is going to be painful for all, but I gotta say, I’m somewhat soothed watching the Wall Street Journal melt down right now over the issue. “Why isn’t anyone trying to stop him?” Why indeed?

AI Search Has A Citation Problem We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

Your AI search assistant is making you dumb.

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Waiting for the current administration to release the Epstein files.

Skyrocketing popcorn futures are a global phenomena these days.

Given the current political situation, stocks are plummeting. On the plus side, popcorn futures are skyrocketing!

He lost $140 Billion in the last couple months. No way did he pick up that much in contracts. Also, Tesla is massively overvalued, and when (not if) it crashes, it’s gonna destroy his credibility, heavily damaging the value of most of his other companies.

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to join Musk’s DOGE, NYT says Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is joining the Department of Government Efficiency along with Elon Musk, the New York Times said on Thursday, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

Just deleted my AirBnB account and removed the app from my devices.

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Found in the warehouse today. #robotheart

Given that the last I looked at green power, the thought of a 40% cut in emission was a pipe dream (not very long ago) and the fact that we are yearly doubling battery storage capacity AND cutting overall power use (even with all those EV’s, heat pumps, crypto miners, and AI servers) is encouraging

Luckily, heat pumps save lots of electricity over older methods of heating and cooling. And EV charging doesn't appear to be making a huge dent in energy usage (see the article.) AI and crypto mining will be mostly computed in areas with plenty of surplus electricity.

The genie is most certainly out of the bottle.

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.

It’s working. “new clean tech helped California’s power plants burn 40 percent less fossil fuel for electricty last year.”

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So now that I've been declared to be female via executive order, I'm wondering: Do I need to change my sex on my drivers license myself? Or are the feds gonna sort that out for me?

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