Data centers have contaminated ground water in Oregon.
They've released smog into the air in Memphis.
And they've contributed to electricity bill spikes — all while receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks.
Is it any wonder why a nationwide backlash against AI data centers is brewing?
O Palácio das Necessidades fica na freguesia da Estrela e foi construído no século XVIII por ordem de D. João V, entre 1742 e 1750, sobre o local onde existia uma ermida dedicada a Nossa Senhora das Necessidades — da qual o palácio herdou o nome.
19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. Their heroic battle lasted 27 days.
Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit.
More: https://t.co/OoVGtqwWPu
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
Destreamerization. The elimination of streamers as a class
You cannot stop this with guardrails, it just has to be shut down. Anything else is lying.
These nazis are walking around undefended villages, rigging them with explosives for a laugh and filming their own crime. Every one of them will be held accountable. This suprematist settler project must be dismantled.
French perspective
Serviço Público de televisão: hoje o Linha da Frente esteve na aldeia de São Martinho das Amoreiras, próxima da minha aldeia, que tem rejuvenescido graças... à imigração. É fascinante o que lá tem sido feito, no meio de nenhures no Alentejo.
Congrats to our four 2026 Math Poetry contest winners!
Listen to high school level winner Zuleika Vasquez, read her winning poem, “The Intersection,” and order the free poster for your classroom today!
Watch: https://youtu.be/381s3rPNL2g
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
If you are required BY LAW to send your child to PUBLIC SCHOOL then lunch should be FREE.
Yes, I am aware I will pay for it with my taxes.
Yes, I am fine with this.
A library room with tall bookshelves and ornate wooden columns is shown. Globes are displayed in protective cases on tables alongside historical documents. A marble bust is positioned near the bookshelves, contributing to the scholarly atmosphere. The overall ambiance is classical and scholarly.
In 2024, the Académie des sciences and the Royal Society collaborated on a public exhibition, looking at the scientific endeavour to measure the Earth. Now a reinvention of this exhibition has returned to Paris, as Louisiane Ferlier reports: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2026/04/around-the-globe/
Mr. Fidel seriously threatening #Artemis II
Cartoon by Bob Eckstein
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.
Verge headline: I saved a doomed Windows laptop by embracing Linux by Stevie Bonifield Photo of an old ThinkPad opened to The Verge website
If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn't a new laptop. It's a new operating system.
Read more from @steviebonifield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/905946/...
Ruínas Fingidas, Évora
Greve na função pública com adesão a rondar os 80%
Leia aqui: www.publico.pt/2168801
Neste dia em 1910 falecia Nadar, o fotógrafo que imortalizou Bakunine, Reclus, Kropotkine, Proudhon e socialistas menos conhecidos como Jules Vallès (fundador do "Le Cri du Peuple") e Jean Jaurès (fundador do "L'Humanité").
When a man claimed his son was drifting across the sky in a homemade flying saucer, the story gripped the nation. Here, Aeon’s head of video reflects on the documentary that recounts the event, examining how news coverage is often rewarded for entertaining rather than informing buff.ly/iGVwNUL
Fui convidado para dar uma aula no dia 14/mai/2026 na cadeira de 'Matemática e Arte' na FCUL do meu amigo Pedro Freitas, falarei sobre os meus desenhos algorítmicos, a matemática por detrás deles e pen plotting. ;)
Mais novidades para breve!
webpages.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/~pjfreitas/m...
Before high-speed computers, numerical tables were all-important. Laplace recognized the need for tabulated values of the normal probability integral about 1783. The mathematician Chrétien (or Christian) Kramp constructed the first table in 1799 & tabulated its logarithms to 7 decimal places.
Colégio do Espírito Santo, University of Évora
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