New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

a version of the imperial boomerang

Photo of Yoda with the text "Good news more time there is".

ICYMI, deadline for proposal submission for SIGIR'26 JEDI Workshop has been extended to April 30. #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026
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Hello, world! We're very happy to be bringing the #AltRecSys workshop back to #RecSys2026. CFP coming soon, prepare your weirdest ideas! altrecsys.github.io/recsys26/

Friends of AltRecSys may also be interested in the JEDI workshop at #SIGIR2026. Deadline extended to April 30.

I am once again saying that letting fascists back into society when they pretend to be repentant like this will lead to the rise of fascism again. They are upset because Trump has made them look like the fascists they are. This does not mean they are on the side of morality and human rights suddenly

Two sea lions swamping a small boat

Only in Puget Sound, Olympia, Washington:

A pair of Stellar Sea Lions, weighing in at at least one ton total weight, commandeer a small sailboat
📸Dane

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

The wording of this is so similar to that adopted by the ECPR when @catherinemoury.bsky.social and I attempted to challenge their position on Israel and Gaza.

Down to paying lipservice to improving the lot of oppressed scholars.

Institutions circling the wagons.

I think it should alarm everyone in the world so much more that the men in charge of these companies, these technofascists, are so filled with rage and hate, that they want to remake the world into something that benefits only them, and kill off the rest of us, that they are so UNMOORED FROM REALITY

in the former, controversy is costly, while in the latter it's the primary currency. getting dogpiled is the conversion mechanism, transforming academic credentials into outsider credibility in certain online communities. tenure makes this possible by eliminating downside risk.

Translation: "Any pushback against Christian nationalism must be put down with a vengeance."

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

As an Indian this fills me with a particular flavor of dread and recognition of how fully genocidal Israeli policy in the West Bank is

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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."

The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

and in fact, we are only getting a 1% raise while the university scrambles to make up a budget shortfall by increasing tuition, etc. I would love to know how the President and Chancellor manage to randomly fork over $2 million to OpenAI in the midst of all this.

Netanyahu foolishly alienated Democrats by engaging in American politics. 2. TikTok happened & generational change. I don’t like it but young Americans in both parties don’t support Israel like their elders. 3. I This kind of thinking resonated more in the wake of 9/11. I 100% Quote Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael · Apr 16 Did Democrat values change or did the party change? Obama on the 2nd Lebanon war: "If somebody invades my country, or is firing rockets into my country, or kidnapping my soldiers, I will not tolerate that and there's no nation in

or, you know, it could be the endless stream of videos posted by IDF soldiers of them literally dancing on the remains of schools and gleefully blowing up things, and saying monstrous things, and the you know, genocide.
The genocide.
Its the genocide.

ICYMI #JEDIWorkshop #SIGIR2026

Thanks to Vanessa Murdock's allyship; as the then ACM SIGIR Chair, she followed up with relevant folks within ACM and both policies / statements have now been updated to include caste as a protected category.

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Jai Bhim.

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Happy Dalit History Month! Over a year ago, I noticed that ACM's policy against harassment and their DEI statement had an important omission: Caste.

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Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights The Trump administration coerced platforms into removing ICE monitoring projects such as ICE Sightings - Chicagoland and the Eyes Up app, the lawsuit alleges.

"A judge has granted the makers of the 'ICE Sightings - Chicagoland' Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down."

The capitalists and landowners want, at all costs, to keep the workers of different nations apart while the powers that be live splendidly together as shareholders in profitable concerns involving millions

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.

Palantir just released what can only be described as a corporate mass shooter manifesto.

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Mod./conservative: 2022: +22 2026: -55 Liberal: 2022: -26 2026:-74

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Age 50+ 2022: +10 2026: -54 Age 18-49: 2022: -25 2026: -70

Brutal polling when it comes to public opinion among Democratic voters on the topic of Israel:

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