If you say this the Uber tax for you specifically should be $100

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 (!)

so that’s called “social murder”

The German carrier cancelled about 120 daily flights and said it would drop unprofitable routes from Munich and Frankfurt until the end of the summer season. ft.trib.al/TwuG4PD

So like sure a union could be good for meta workers but so could mass quitting. Like just fucking quit!

sure but it is still the wrong order. I guess if you have a fixed set of time off every year down to the day this makes sense, but flights are wildly diff prices diff weeks/days. Why would you start w/a fixed cost and work backwards to a variable

Bangladesh’s gig workers are stuck in gas lines as Iran-U.S. war strains fuel supply The country gets 95% of its fuel from abroad.

interesting piece on how Uber/rideshare companies are unaffected by global price shocks and are happy to let their drivers eat the full cost of lost wages restofworld.org/2026/gulf-wa...

Reading some travel blog and they say the number one mistake travelers make is booking their hotel before their flight. Are people really doing this? Why on earth would you not start with the actual traveling part

It’s crazy how good it is. I accidentally read like 12pgs more than I intended to tn

Towns and Cities 49I Some 4000 ended their days in the poor-house, either at the Hôtel-Dieu or the Bicêtre. The dead were 'sewn up in sacking' and buried unceremoniously in the paupers' grave at Clamart, which was sprinkled with quick lime. A hand-drawn cart carried the dead southwards from the Hôtel-Dieu every night. 'A mud-bespattered priest, a bell, a cross' - such was the only funeral procession of the poor. Everything about the poor-house "is hard and cruel'; 1200 beds for 5000 to 6000 sick people. "The newcomer is bedded down beside a dying man and a corpse. 141 And life was no kinder in its beginnings. Paris had 7000 to 8000 abandoned children out of some 30,000 births around 1780. Depositing these children at the poor-house was an occupation in itself. The man carried them on his back 'in a padded box which can hold three. They are propped upright in their swaddling clothes, breathing through the top ... When [the carrier] opens his box, he often finds one of them dead; he completes his journey with the other two, impatient to be rid of the load.... He immediately sets off once more to start the same task, which is his livelihood, over again.?42 Many of these abandoned children came from the provinces. Strange immigrants indeed.

Incredibly bleak couple of paragraphs from the chapter on towns and cities

Seeing this later I feel compelled to issue a correction: Israelis would also do this

Literally has to be the only country in the world where we’re like “maybe a contract killer should run for office!”

I think the thing that is most through the looking glass about graham platner is that, even sitting aside the nazi ties, he was literally a mercenary

Rapidly falling teen births since 1991

The provisional fertility rate for teenagers in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15–19, down 7% from 2024 (12.6) and another record low for this age group (Table 1, Figure 2) (4,5,9–11). The rate has decreased by 72% since 2007 (41.5), the most recent period of continued decline, and by 81% since 1991 (61.8), the most recent peak. The number of births to females ages 15–19 was 125,933 in 2025, down 8% from 2024

One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes
www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vs...

Apart from everything else, this has nothing to do with how the Pharisees and their conflict with Jesus are depicted in the Gospels. Not even the opposite of it. Just completely orthogonal. Like someone who has no familiarity with the Bible stories at all.

If you have not yet learned to treat anyone making this argument with enormous skepticism I do not know how to help you; this is the political equivalent of arguing that a car with a blown engine needs a new coat of paint, but worse because there's actually nothing wrong with the paint.

The basic situation, as I see it, is that fascism has captured the entire top of society, including both parties, the tech industry, news and media, all cops, and wealthy landowners. But everyone else hates it and the more they see the more they hate it. So there's no obvious way to seal the deal.

David Harvey on Marx in the age of finance capital - LSE Review of Books Ann Pettifor reviews The Story of Capital by David Harvey which re-engages with Marx’s Capital and the rise of finance capital above industrial capitalism today

Revisiting Marx in the age of finance capital: The Story of Capital by @davidharvey.org @versobooks.bsky.social reviewed by @annpettifor.bsky.social for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Learned Hannah Arendt was Heidegger’s lover and remained close with him after the war. Never liked her but did not realize her psycho hollowness went so far

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

I am choosing to view the palantir tweet paired with the milei speech as the capitalist class massively overplaying their hand

A woman with short blonde hair wearing a grey Henley and black leather jacket and carrying rainbow and red strap bags looks at the camera

Leaving my house at sunset wow

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson suggested the US government should prepare a backup plan in order to avert a potential collapse in demand for Treasuries -an event he warned would have "vicious" effects. "We need an emergency break-the-glass plan, which is targeted and short-term, on the shelf, so it's ready to go when when we hit the wall," Paulson said during an interview for Bloomberg Television's Wall Street Week with David Westin. With regard to any breakdown in the $31 trillion market for US government debt, Paulson said that would pose a different case from the financial crisis two decades ago. "As bad as it was," the government had fiscal firepower to address the credit meltdown, he said. "You can come in and clean up the mess." But in the event of a US public debt crisis, "you're trying to issue Treasuries and the Fed is the only buyer and the prices of the Treasuries are going down and interest rates are up, that's a dangerous thing."

Not exactly the kind of thing you want someone to suddenly decide we need a plan for

BREAKING: At least 72,345 Palestinians have been killed and 172,250 wounded in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023.

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logged in to fb for the first time in a long time and like 25% of my feed is algorithm posts about life in and news from south korea

We have hit chalking your hands for every lift fake summer week

You just never realize how stupid living through the formation of the Church of England would have been

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
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This is *fantastic* news.