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Data Centers, AI, and the High Cost of Being Afraid
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (1023+ words) Hello and welcome to Wednesday, June 24, 2026. I'm glad you're here for our daily visit. Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day, which is a big deal in Quebec. It's also National Pralines Day. 1509: Henry VIII is crowned King of England in…...
Data Center Freak-Out
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (535+ words) Data centers are big buildings full of machines that process what we do on our phones and computers." AI requires even more computing power, so companies are eager to build more data centers. The usual suspects are freaking out. "We…...
The Thing I'll Miss the Most (When the Data Centers Come to Town)
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (482+ words) Almost every other day, some guy named Brendan sends me an email that says something like, "We will be performing a small amount of rock removal on the project site, weather permitting. You may feel a minor rumble during this…...
Kash Patel's Email Hack Shows How Close the Threat Really Is
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (617+ words) Hackers linked to Iran broke into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account. The group known as Handala Hack Team claimed responsibility and posted images along with what appears to be an older'r'sum' and email material from 2010 through 2019. A Justice…...
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3+ mon, 5+ hour ago (16+ words) The Great Replacement Chronicles: If Only Rome Had More Migrants, What Could Have Been'pjmedia. com...
The Anti-ICE Signal Chat Group Is Discovered, So It Moves to (Illegal) Ham Radio? Ummmm, Yeah.
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (831+ words) Good morning from the frozen environs of Western New York. Today is Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. I have seven degrees showing on my weather station. Might get to fifteen today. Years ago, weather like this was pretty much standard fare." 1901:"Anton Chekhov's…...
On Frankenstein, the Technocracy, and the Internet
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (796+ words) No technological innovation, perhaps, except agriculture, has revolutionized society quite like the internet has. In any case, none has done it nearly as rapidly. Many allegedly brilliant minds got the impact of the internet so wrong that " if they lived…...