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• As the article says, Americans can buy them, but you’ll have to pay 127.5% Republican tariffs.

Striving to maximize profit is what companies do. Blaming them is not useful. Instead, advocate for and promote government policies that would disincentivize fossil fuel use, like carbon taxes.

This wasn’t just Stephen Miller as this article makes it sound. The conference was convened by Marco Rubio, and he also used fascist rhetoric.

He called leftists “an encroaching darkness” and “the enemies of civilization”.

Rubio also called the left terrorists:

Rubio also attempted to link disparate groups together. “Iranian proxy networks”, he said, “are increasingly intimately tied to leftist militant groups around the world”. “We have no choice but to confront this menace together. We will either cooperate across our borders, or the terrorists will continue to exploit the gaps between them."

This is from another article on the conference, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

Between this and Trump’s recent claims that the USA doesn’t have the ability to secure its elections against Chinese interference, the regime seems to be making a case for cancelling the midterm elections and possibly arresting Democratic “terrorists”.

PSA: If your router has a guest network feature, enable it, and put all of your IOT devices on it. Unlike the main network, guest networks are typically configured such that each device on the guest network can only access the internet, and not other devices on the guest network, nor the router, itself.

Gotta own those libs, right? /s

I’ve read science fiction books in which humans scavenged the machines’ supplies like rodents scavenging from a kitchen, and now it’s reality.

“From now on the shroud is our garment. I swear by your blood; Trump’s murder is our responsibility,” Mohammad Rasouli, a poet

They do poetry differently in Iran.

Mitochondrion*

Remember when Trump said that Hillary was corrupt for accepting payment for speeches?

Its all going to become more efficient enough you can run it all locally. Why are we trying to piss away zillions of dollars on data centers

The idea that the hardware we currently have is good enough for future applications hasn’t been true of software in general. As better hardware becomes available, software has improved to take advantage of it. Also, the improvements in software have allowed the development of even better hardware, in a virtuous cycle.

Also, regarding local vs cloud computing in general, datacenters provide an economy of scale that can’t be matched by local compute. Shared datacenters are also more efficient than everyone having expensive hardware that they only use a fraction of the time. This is why datacenters were expanding rapidly even before the recent advances in large language models.

The comment by ksymph sums up my thoughts exactly:

The principles behind this effort are admirable, but I’m concerned about the practical implementation. Who is funding this? How will one person per domain be verified? Is self-hosting actually required, or can one use an external host; in the case of the former, how would it be verified, and in the case of the latter, what exactly does this tld accomplish that isn’t accomplished by free tlds, tlds like .me, or services like duckdns? Open source software clients as described are a major undertaking; why keep them under the umbrella of this tld?

I respect the goals here, and I want this to succeed, but this is a massive project, and without a clear plan I’m afraid this will peter out even if the tld is granted.

The headline is a lie. Not only did they not cut into the roof of the reactor, but the reactor was also offline when they replaced the steam generators

Bruce Power cut into the roof of an operating nuclear station, hauled eight steam generators weighing 100 metric tons each (about 110 US tons) out through the top, and lowered brand-new ones into the same hole. Then it brought the reactor back online on June 8

Is it a noose made of hemp

“In leadership roles, narcissists have a clear preference for face-to-face interaction, where richer channels allow them to not only gain attention but also wield power and status,” the authors write. Remote settings curtail leaders’ usual means of “directing and inspiring employees” like using hand gestures, fluctuating the volume of their voice, making eye contact, and adjusting their posture. “When communicating by video, phone, email, or text, it is more difficult for leaders to command the attention—and gauge and bask in the admiration—of their employees,” the authors write.

I don’t understand the aversion to datacenters. Just make sure that they use green energy and recycle their cooling water.

Hell yeah California. Suck it, Peacock.

“In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn’t wait in the room,” Taha wrote. “You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.”

Taha also flagged a telling moment from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghci, who Taha claimed “entered last and refused to shake hands,” a claim supported by reporting from the Iranian news outlet Tasnim News Agency.

… That’s it? The headline seems hyperbolic.