Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

Buying RAM from a van in a McDonald’s parking lot is my future

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1uq558s/comment/ow5ki2h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Like any drug dealer NBC has each year made it increasingly difficult to access the Tour de France.

It’s not enough that my enormous endlessly increasing cable bill demands funding for licensing to NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, etc.

Now NBC only broadcast 3 stages of the Tour de France out of 21.

Before it was difficult to keep up, but I managed to DVR much of it so it was practical to watch fast forwarding through to the actual footage.

Now it’s not even included on streaming NBC access - requiring a subscription to watch endless ads, and an third tier extra plus ultimate enhancement subscription fee to have the full race footage uninterrupted by ads — but no longer with access to the world feed missing all the US commentary and biography bullshit.

Used to change the bar tv to stream the Tour after traditional US sports turned to highlights - turning on people to cycling who would never had watched.

Now it’s an additional luxury item.

#TourDeFrance
#Enshittification
#nbcuniversal

One wonders how they’d differentiate between someone who is brain dead and a republican…

Columbus-area data centers used about 1.2 billion gallons of the city's water in a one-year period.

https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2026/07/06/columbus-area-data-centers-used-1-2-billion-gallons-of-water-in-a-year/90664392007/

But the data center water problem has now "largely been solved" says Big Tech. You trust Big Tech, don't you?

China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete - https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html "Nine more towers are planned across China, totaling over 3.7 gigawatt-hours. Unlike pumped hydro, a gravity tower needs only flat ground."

Americans will never invest in simple gravity batteries when any other more expensive and profitable technological solutions can be used to bankrupt everyone first.
https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

"Mitch McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra three weeks because of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go out,”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-mcconnell-2677164617/

Speaking of Witches, This guy will definitely be the one to at least float the idea of seeking revenge against women by instigating originalist MAGA doctrine declaring Wiccans as a terrorist threat. His obvious offensive meme bait will be execution by fire.

Additionally all rituals of Voodoo and Gothic Black Magic shall be included to make sure all religious threats to the supreme commander are covered.

You are only allowed freedom to supreme White Nationalist Christianity upon which they say America was founded on.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-nato-2677163441/

"The call was wrong, so it's fine!"

Sorry, but wrong calls are part of sports. They always have been. Having the president of any country lean on the sports governing association to get them to make a change after the game is over will always be corruption.

I don't think it's too much to ask for the people of a state to know whether or not one of their two U.S. Senators is still alive

#USPol

over the weekend, i had a conversation with an older family member who - instead of doing 30 seconds of research - asked google gemini about a neurological fact. the answer they got only confused them even more, and i found myself arguing with a probabilistic magic 8 ball.

as i watch hard-fought human knowledge we've accrued for centuries reduced to bayesian slop, it made me appreciate how incredible the plain old encyclopedias of the past century are. huge teams of educators, writers, authors and editors cooperated to produce, to the best of their ability, a tome of knowledge that represents the world as accurately as possible. there is no guessing involved, nor conflation of facts. suddenly the boring reference material that sat on our teachers' shelves 30 years ago are relevant again.

while out thrifting today i came across a wonderful example of compressed human knowledge: (Kodansha International, 1993) Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. it is 5kg of dense, obscure, and fascinating facts about Japan and its cultures. it was written and illustrated by an international team of 1200+ scholars and artists. its sheer weight demands respect and attention. the opening and closing pages, made of ribbed heavy weight cotton paper, declare that this is something to be treasured and not read lightly.

this is the kind of book that childhood-me would have splayed upon on the living room floor, and flipped through randomly for hours, entranced by its pictures and new words.

for the past few years, it has become fashionable on mastodon to embrace anti-nostalgia: a kind of hatred of old things because of the time and place they came from. a belief that people today are corrupted by their emotionally biased memories, and that cultures of the past are inherently bad or misguided. i do not share in this cynical worldview. anyone can look at this encyclopedia, now 33 years old, and recognize its absolute value: the people who wrote it took care in what they made, did not write it for fame or fashion, and looked forward to improving upon it as time went on.

it cost me $10, and now I have a priceless treasure I could have never afforded back when it was printed (32,000¥). i suspect that over the next few years, we're going to see more people looking for old reference material like this. and hopefully, turning less to google to clarify an argument.

#books #illustration #japan

#MitchMcConnell - is he currently part of the #GOP touring cast of #WeekendAtBernies ?

I get the feeling the #TrumpRegime is doing all they can to avoid an election to replace him.

#USPol #auspol

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116876020223272582

Have Americans who treasure legitimacy in sport finally found a form of corruption that merits consequences?

Unsurprisingly the people who go on about other people needing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and kids getting “participation awards” are the first to go whining to the umpire when someone on their team gets a red card… As I’ve said before, they’re weak as piss…

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I’m honestly so sick of this president embarrassing us on a world stage.

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Took a photo of this license plate a few days ago while on vacation in Maine, seems apt today.

“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”

Yesterday, 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by two members of the National Guard in Memphis.

According to his grandfather, Tyrin Johnson was the father of a young child, and was preparing to help lead the family’s construction business.

Americans are understandably outraged, and demanding full transparency and accountability.

We must act now to reduce their wealth and power as it's becoming more difficult every day to reign them in!

"break(ing) up this concentrated wealth and power isn’t radical, it’s actually our founding-era orthodoxy. It’s time... to tax greed."

https://newrepublic.com/article/212568/founders-warnings-excess-wealth-come-appallingly-true?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=thenewrepublic%2Fmagazine%2FPolitics

Red cards.

Platner should go. McConnell should resign. Trump should be in prison.

No extra time.
#politics #WorldCup