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Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released
A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.
All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use
Tehran is very nearly out of water. The city of 10 million will start being evacuated in December if there aren't rains or the instituted rationing isn't effective enough.
https://www.waterdiplomat.org/story/2025/11/threat-day-zero-tehran-water-reserves-drop-below-5
Hey is the NVDA earnings call today, I'm waiting to see if the economy collapses like you're supposed to wait for sports scores
Beaming a good and kind and positive International Men's Day to all. I've spoken about this before but there is so much untapped potential in men - so much wasted due to fear and toxicity. Trumps and Putins weren't born that way - it took a lifetime of poor parenting, fear and unkindness, all being constantly negatively reinforced. No young man is a monster. But they do need positive role models, love, guidance and support. And without us all making an active decision to do this it creates a vacuum filled by opportunists or lazy media stereotypes. We ask ourselves 'what are we meant to be' and draw from what is available. Which is invariably not the sort of man who focuses on community, compassion and empathy. We're all superhero rockstar antiheroes. Swashbuckling rogues. Given the choice between Luke and Han we are all Han. Whilst great, Han is a cool uncle. You don't want Han raising a new generation of young men. Look at what happened to Kylo. Although I'm not sure Luke is a good example either. They're fictional anyway why are we even talking about this? I've lost my point.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Small actions have big results. Show kindness. Correct lazy unkindness. Normalise saying 'that's not ok' or 'I don't agree with that', and 'well done' or 'that was great' or 'you've got this'. People will respect you more for having the mettle to stand up for yourself and others in small ways. And then you can lead them all... to victory!
I love you. You're great. Love yourself too (not like that) and remember how important it was to receive guidance from male role models in your life. You are that person now. Wield it wisely and we all win. X
I assumed this goes without saying, but it occurs to me it may not.....
I of course include all in International Men's Day - particularly during Trans Awareness Week - brothers old and new. Whenever you arrived - welcome to the party, pal. X
完食，好看。
kmt還存活在台灣真的是超級弔詭 
よくわからずに無生物を生物化する絵チャに入ってしまったので
即興でいろいろ描いたのだった
@tangled.orgTangled is such a great role model for projects in this moment
- actually does the thing: useful, accessible
- innovates/differentiates at *product* level: stacked review
- hybrid at proto layer (git and AT), pulls in bsky profile data
- built in europe by small amitious team
#eurosky
Mr. Bin and his tree friends.
現在看到DVD的畫質（480p）會覺得畫質有點低，但藍光的播放器又不這麼普及，想當年Cyberlink訊連的PowerDVD播放器還不便宜，AC3音訊的解碼器還要再另外付費 https://youtu.be/n9LGz3sxx4E
I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
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Have you wanted to sing the praises of #FreeSoftware but didn't have a tune? Learn the Free Software Song performed by Devin Ulibarri and Rubén Rodríguez: https://u.fsf.org/497
텍스트를 읽다가 졸리면 자고 싶은데 꼭 이렇게 생각할 땐 잠이 안온단말이지
【BUILT-IN PRO 電器專門店特約】柬埔寨柴楨省初級法院外周二（18日）早上發生罕見的持槍劫犯事件。一名黑衣女子在囚車抵達時突然遞槍予囚犯，對方即場向警員開火，並與另外5名越南籍囚犯成功逃離現場。事件過程被閉路電視拍下，在社交平台瘋傳。
事發於早上近9時，一名戴鴨舌帽、背着袋的女子在法院範圍內等候，期間囚車駛至。警方打開車門後，多名身穿橙色囚衣、以手銬成對鎖上的囚犯陸續落車。當中一名囚犯落地後迅即解開與同伴的手銬，黑衣女子則同時掏出槍械遞給他。
該囚犯接過槍後立即向警員開火，隨即牽着女子，並聯同其他5名囚犯直奔大門逃走。警員一度避開其攻擊，其後折返並以AK步槍還擊，但逃犯已登車逃離。
柬埔寨監獄總局表示，是次事件無人受傷，6名逃犯均為越南籍，涉及毒品及網絡詐騙等案件被捕。警方其後已成功拘捕其中一名主犯，並尋獲涉案車輛，正全力追緝其餘在逃人士。
RN: 잘은 모르겠지만 뭔가 낭만을 실현하는 일인가보네요..
✨ The new Cryptomator Desktop Update 1.18.0 is here!
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Joining the resistance. 💪
But... at some point there's a threshold; at some point an edge case becomes a leading-edge case.
This was one of the core lessons I learned working with the Flow team - any one absolute number won't show what you want, you have to be able to see motion and context.
"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water"
"Oh, how much water is it?"
"That's a secret"
[ https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115575889086562703 ]
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water"
"Oh, how much water is it?"
"That's a secret"
[ https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115575889086562703 ]
Apple Music 的古典樂專用 App 還不錯，畢竟古典樂的形式跟現代音樂差太多了。
除了歌手/演奏家以外還多了一個最重要的作曲家層級，而且一個曲目可能由數個樂章組成，光是呈現方式就有極大的差異。
另外有演奏者與曲目的介紹真是挺有趣的w
Now this. This is #solarpunk.
A true community-owned gardening project. So many stadiums and sports intitutes are just left to rot once they're no longer profitable, instead of being reused for the greater good. Remember, repurposing is always easier than recycling.
Image source: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1oatw62/taipeis_old_stadium_turned_into_a_community_garden/
Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released
A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.
All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use
筆電需求
耐用（物理上
15"以上（獨立數字鍵
RJ45、HDMI
應該要商用才有機會
目前卡在 i5/i7
要/不要 獨顯
並且考慮 16/32GB
1T/2T SSD
Then I'd take the train to the Stripe office, and there's just so much *suffering* of poverty in San Francisco. Homelessness exists everywhere, but in 2016 San Francisco it really broke my heart walking through town and seeing the conditions people were struggling in. And having noplace to relieve themselves but on the street.
And then, the contrast of it! To enter the Stripe office. Tech Disneyland! It was so comfortable.
But look out the window, and you'd see the disparity.
I talked about this with a friend when she came to visit me one day. She remarked how she had a conversation with someone who had a posh job in SF and was complaining, "Look at how much I have to pay for my tiny apartment. And then! All that money! For this!" and pointing at the homelessness in the street.
And she said, "You understand that's *because* you pay so much for your apartment right? These are all interconnected." And the person was just baffled.
SF is a place of extremes.
I've talked about it before but Attention K-Mart Shoppers is such an incredible thing, a collection of overhead department store music from a forgotten era https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
My favorite thing is still the opening track from the October 1989 tape. The synths! The distortion! The yearning calls of the instruments! The piano! https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989
There are so many good tapes though
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber that piano really fits go unreasonably hard given the setting.
Reminds me of when I worked at a dollar tree that had a Muzac system, after hours when we were cleaning up the manager would flip it to an alternative rock channel that was actually really good, but DT corporate wouldn't let the managers play it while the store was open.
連公文都沒有，福岡縣公務員用微信？沒有資安問題嗎？
江蘇省方面15日通過微信聯繫福岡縣，表示因故希望延期
福岡縣與江蘇省的交流活動延期 https://tchina.kyodonews.net/news/2025/11/ae342cf792e2.html
しゅまい寝るなら寝るか
Hey is the NVDA earnings call today, I'm waiting to see if the economy collapses like you're supposed to wait for sports scores
《寶可夢傳說Z-A》DLC
帥氣的「超級捷拉奧拉」登場啦！
#寶可夢
I've talked about it before but Attention K-Mart Shoppers is such an incredible thing, a collection of overhead department store music from a forgotten era https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
My favorite thing is still the opening track from the October 1989 tape. The synths! The distortion! The yearning calls of the instruments! The piano! https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989
There are so many good tapes though
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I'm a big fan of the 1974 December reel-to-reel. I was born in 76, and my dad was a retail manager. I spent quite a bit of my childhood at work with him, so it feels very comforting and nostalgic.
我覺得費倫在索要「讓衣服變乾淨的魔法」之前，一定早就學會「讓頭髮與頭皮變乾淨清爽的魔法」了。我覺得這應該也是所有冒險者上路前必先學會的魔法之一。
The Saudification of America Is Under Way. “Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/saudi-arabia-america-jamal-khashoggi
稳定的生活在哪里，六十平公寓在哪里，不用每天十小时的工作在哪里！！！
しゅまいもねよ～ 
この時間に仮眠とか中途半端に寝ると逆に疲れるのに学ばない…ぷちっと
일어남ㅅ다
Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging
Researchers have just discovered a way to destroy harmful 'senescent' cells that accumulate with age and ramp up the kind of tissue damage and inflammation that slowly brings life to a grinding halt.
The team found that CD4 T immune cells transform into assassins of the damaging tissues when biological aging is detected in the body.
Breaking | An Israeli occupation drone struck a tent near the Buraq land area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
現在看到DVD的畫質（480p）會覺得畫質有點低，但藍光的播放器又不這麼普及，想當年Cyberlink訊連的PowerDVD播放器還不便宜，AC3音訊的解碼器還要再另外付費 https://youtu.be/n9LGz3sxx4E
Breaking | An Israeli occupation drone struck a tent near the Buraq land area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
빛은 종종 비현실적이다. 눈으로 보면서도 현실성을 따지는 건 디스플레이로 세상을 보기 때문이겠지.
Conservatives consistently not understanding why you would choose who you associate with based on their values is the funniest thing
A thing I don't like about Signal is that in principle if someone messages you by username they can't get your phone number, but the interface doesn't indicate at all. Meanwhile, if you get cold called by someone it doesn't tell you if they messaged by username or by phone number, and it's not clear by pressing "Accept" whether or not you're transmitting to them your username (if they messaged by phone#) or the phone# (if they messaged by username)… or how to prevent this.
Conservatives consistently not understanding why you would choose who you associate with based on their values is the funniest thing
Chao-c'
Dr. Anna Latour
MJ+
Glyph
Sovereign Tech Agency
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