Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
When you forgot to make women part of the design team
@Ashedryden What we need is people learning stories and experiences, and thinking about them. If they do that by reading with their eyeballs, or by somebody else reading it to them, or just by listening to them, I don't care. I don't care that much about the medium, in this context. I care about the sharing and the learning.
There is a pleasure in books. It's not the dick-waving about purity or tradition or superiority.
Reading is good and we should be encouraging people to consume books in any way that is accessible to them.
“Audiobooks don’t count as reading!”
You can fuck right off, actually.
What do you think the carbon footprint was of the Taylor Swift wedding?
I forgot Judd Hirsch was in Independence Day. One of my favorite tv actors of all time.
A short and easy survey about nonbinary names:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFGof2INX5d9FvkugEI1klgtRaMqjk4IxeCcovzppdh13Frw/viewform
Closing date: 19th July 2026
See some incoming stats here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dAFjCq82TpgIjBGhue4hD116dFle6ygB4Wfk113BGUc/edit
I’m ruined for working for anyone else after having worked for myself for 15 years.
What do you mean someone can tell me I can’t take my daily siesta?
Suck down half a cold brew and then completely crash out
Silo is back!
These days I am mostly playing 2-player games that aren't super competitive (prefer co-op, even) and can be played in under an hour.
Such a neat idea for a video: a set of games that together fit into a shoebox! This would make an awesome gift. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9y2xhtmOQ&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD
Was talking this morning about how we are really at an existential crisis, society-wise, where either things are going to continue getting worse and we are just going to have a massive chasm between capitalists and the average person or the government is going to have to implement social safety nets that hold these people accountable or we won’t have a society.
Just feeding the future right into the wood chipper to feed the AI furnace. https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/welcomed-37-data-centers-now-schools-dim-lights-cut-energy-costs/91368206
Has anyone with #migraines had a problem where the position suddenly shifts to a different area? Usually mine are localized to my forehead and eyes, but for the past couple days I’ve had it on one side of my head in the back.
You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.
I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.
That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.
Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
Just saw this come across the #Obsidian reddit today. Possibly a next-gen OmniSearch? https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/seek