Yeah, pipe down, Donnie.

Data centers don’t have to be a burden on local communities – and can even support them by generating power and repurposing waste heat Two engineers explain how data center design, construction and operation can help the facilities support their communities.

Data centers are straining power grids.

But new research suggests they don’t have to. With the right design, they can generate energy, store it and even reuse waste heat to support nearby communities.

AOC: What law would you want to make?

A slightly modified version of the Presidents tweet to fit The Twins very FAKE win against The Mets last night

you’ve got it sir, such FAKE NEWS,

The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you.

🔍 Listen now 👇
https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

Amal is still trapped under the rubble and Israel reportedly deployed stun grenades to stop the Red Cross from reaching her.

This is terrifying and should outrage everyone everywhere.

Great news. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy is going open access! I loved being part of the editorial team years ago. Happy to see they've made this move.

#openaccess
#philosophy

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Short of Krusty the Clown--or maybe Pennywise--there could be no better choice for the depths to which this event, corrupt from day one, has descended.

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job.

One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution.

Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

If you have people in your life who acknowledge the horror of what Israel has done to Palestinians but argue over the term genocide or say "what about," & you want to persuade them, or help them think more humanly, some might be able to actually hear this. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

BREAKING: Israel is besieging two Lebanese journalists, Amal Khalil & Zainab Farraj, in southern Lebanon. Nothing confirmed yet, but people on the ground saying one of the journalists is reportedly trapped beneath rubble & they've killed at least two people in airstrikes nearby

NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity's most distant spacecraft prepares for risky 'Big Bang' maneuver to save power After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another instrument to save the mission.

Voyagers I & II are running critically low on power. If these Big Bang experiments are successful, NASA may be able to extend their lives by another year or two.
Launched 5 Sept 1977, she's been working for 49 years across 15.7 billion miles. 🚀

NEW: Rep Krishnamoorthi is demanding Todd Blanche hand over communications between DOJ and Ghislaine Maxwell about a pardon. Maxwell's lawyer has said he thinks Trump will give her one. Right now, Maxwell's holding a lot of cards. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Illinois policy: pragmatic & progressive.
“complete sustainability scoresheet & carbon calculation report…
A few examples of practices that could score a production points: minimizing waste, reducing emissions through efficient transport & equipment, smart material use & responsible food practices.”

Two decades ago, I started my career fighting for clean air, clean water, and a livable planet.

On this Earth Day, I’ll be honest with you: the fight has never been harder.
open.substack.com/pub/mikelevi...

As I predicted last night, Trump is claiming the Virginia redistricting vote was "rigged." I'm no soothsayer. I just know that the most dependable thing about Trump is his dishonesty.

Information literacy taught by librarians is a critical thinking skill.
“Lastly, no matter what the IASB tells you in your training, there is nothing to stop you from passing a resolution reaffirming the role of librarians in our school and directing the administrators to not terminate their roles.”

Lifting as we climb…

“People don’t know that there was a time when women didn’t have the right to vote… that it took 70-plus years & multiple generations of women… also don’t know that the effort was multiracial,” says mural series co-director Michelle Duster… great-granddaughter of… Ida B. Wells.”

In other words, the DOJ moved to preclude protesters' ability to assert their free speech and protest rights or to mention DOJ's, ICE's and CBP's misdeeds (including murdering several people). bsky.app/profile/djby...

Among the motions, the govt. seeks to bar defendants from making 1A arguments at trial, and to exclude "evidence or argument designed to elicit jury nullification," incl. arguments re: vindictive prosecution, "outrageous" govt. conduct, reference to ICE/CBP shootings and other violence, etc.

4 big takeaways from key federal election commission’s  annual meetings Democracy Docket was among the few outlets covering the gatherings.

ICYMI: Election officials are worried about a pending SCOTUS decision on mail-in ballots and were stunned that the Trump administration has been blocking appointments to a key committee that sets standards for voting machines.

We covered these updates on the ground.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Project Glasswing includes Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon Web Services, JPMorgan Chase, & Nvidia.
Their declared intention was to use Mythos AI defensively to identify their own vulnerabilities to cyberattacks & fix them. Who identifies & fixes online forum human access security flaws? Weak link.

I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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Oh noez! “Rhetorical hyperbole.” I’d bet the bourbon that this is the way his Patel’s lawsuit against the Atlantic goes as well.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.