RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

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:

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I would really like to see a "declouding" movement where consumers demand any software that doesn't strictly need to be in the cloud, be downloadable to run locally on their own hardware.

The way that things used to be.

Your periodic reminder that LLMs are incapable of "understanding" anything and that it is all a function of "self working card trick" of language probabilities; it just generates likely sounding bullshit. Sometimes that likely sounding bullshit is accurate because likely sounding things often are.

Be sure to read the entire Hyperion Cantos.

Reading Hyperion for the first time and it's so nice to remember that not all fantasy has to immediately define its weirdest parts right away. I'm like 50 pages in with zero idea what the deal is with the titular planet and I feel like that's just fully not allowed in so much stuff right now

Another wild fear tactic being pressed on tech workers right now is the “permanent underclass.”

Idk anyone who’s is worried about this myself.

But to those who are worried about this:

Class struggles will not be fixed by getting “in” on AI. It’ll be fixed by collective action and labor rights.

Veteran Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB so it could run smoothly on 90s computers — original utility used a smart technique to determine whether it was the only running ins... The same Dave Plummer was the genius behind Windows’ ZIP file support.

“And while I absolutely do not want to go back to that old hardware, I do wish we had carried more of [...] the instinct to batch work, to cache the right things, [...] to be suspicious of convenience when convenience sends a bill to the user.”

www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

Happening right now in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Absolutely lovely.

we’re winning

Hanson's Oudbeitje Lambic 2006, bottle and deep amber pour. The photo doesn't capture the aroma and words just don't have any way either.

Lots of stuff sucks really bad right now. Here in the states we are literally living a state of chronic trauma. I don't want to minimize that in any way but despair saps willpower and so I want to post good things as well.

Here's a 20-year-old lambic. It's a good thing.

Norfolk & Western J-class 611 at the Strasburg Rail Road, July 2021

The minds of Silicon Valley A.I. tech bros would explode when they find out a perfect machine like this was designed with pencils and slide rulers.

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A Ukrainian cat and dog that were rescued from the front lines. They were evacuated 12 km to safety by drone.

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of course we are getting the best space imagery of our lives before earth ceases to exist or whatever the fuck is happening

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

News you can use.

Takes a lot to truly unnerve these days but the "a whole civilization will die" line is a new plane of horrific. Even if it is just rhetoric, which I would not bet on, it feels like a sign of some last vestige being blown away. The US openly and eagerly announcing itself as monstrous

Anyway, let’s all send our little emails and teach our classes and parent our children and cook dinner and drive around like the President didn’t just threaten to annihilate an entire civilization thus cutting off all diplomatic talks.

*turns on Ms. Rachel*

*fills up water bottle for the day*

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

I've found this tool really helps plan my day: nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

amazon.com summary of 2k+ purchases of potassium iodide tablets in the last month

This seems normal

“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

"a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone"

yet another pseudo-engineer sociopath mythologized by a lazy tech access press

gosh, perhaps there's lessons to be learned there (again)

ngl i kind of love the graphic

It is. The words need to be available 24/7 and in several different languages.

Did I mention I’m writing a new book? Plus, all the tech news you missed in March 2026

My next book is called Hyperscale, and it comes out in October!

I gave a little preview of what’s going to be about in this month’s recap, but expect more in the coming months.

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This is now a full time job.

Currently taking new applications from words bad enough to describe the wholesale destruction of the United States and the people who are responsible.

Abominable, atrocious, catastrophic, corrupt, egregious, horrifying etc etc have done the heavy lifting but just can’t get the job done anymore.

it is goofy to be old enough to remember when Gmail promised you would never have to delete emails, only to tell everyone there were storage limits unless you paid monthly for extra space in the cloud

Soilsposting on my holidays www.instagram.com/p/DWj6qN0Eo2G #nzsoils #soilclassification #drivebynerdery #cantstopwontstop

Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West - High Country News The demolition of public lands, water and wildlife protections are part of conservatives’ plan for a second Trump term.

“Project 2025” doesn’t seem to get the attention is should…
From 2024
www.hcn.org/articles/pro...