I absolutely love the idea of shipping the batch training of AI models to data centers fed by renewables in order to mop up surplus capacity and generate revenue without requiring additional grid infrastructure. We could simply ship the valuable compute job to the location with the greatest momenary surplus of renewable capacity instead of shipping the electricity to a fixed datacenter fed by the grid. Much cheaper.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4695879

I had a feeling that some day, a combination of economic reality and nimbyism would sway even the most ardent climate deniers to oppose new fossil fuel investments. Seems like we're starting to see it here.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/gas-peaker-plant-republicans-fort-mohave-arizona#webview=1

One to ponder.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jjx2-jTRt84?si=GOdVp5mTQ5GeCse_

It just does not get much better than being high while out hiking with your good boy and bestie, and honestly, it doesn't need to.

As the presidential debates draw closer, I'd really enjoy a chatGPT-powered visual overlay dynamically fact-checking the candidates statements as they make them and updating a bullshitometer dial in the lower right corner of the screen.

The only upside to climate change is that Louisiana will be submerged before they can continue much further down this shitty path.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/

@CriticalCupcake Honestly, I'd pass on Heaven.

@th3j35t3r I keep thinking that, aside from announcing that you had a brain worm, the only claim that could reflect worse on you is that the worm wasn't able to sustain itself on your brain and died.

It's just self-own on top of self-own with Bobby Jr.

What's the bets that Trump ends up goading judge Merchan into jailing him for contempt of court, therby triggering a 30 day televised jailhouse vigil of every kind of right-wing accelerationist kook McVeigh types?

That's going to suck balls really quite profoundly.

@th3j35t3r counterpoint: I met my wife during a math tutorial at St Andrews University when she started swearing at a Mac running system 7. In that moment,
I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.

Christian lawmaker says teachers should be allowed to hit students with disabilities

This is your regular reminder that faith is neither a virtue, nor a reliable path to truth.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-lawmaker-says-teachers

How is it that I never realized that Neil Oliver is actually the Evil Universe Marti Pellow?

Lee Majors, star of the Six Million Man, is 85. What's the odds he's had a GenX surgeon give him a new hip or knee and they've managed *not* to mutter, "We can rebuild, we have the technology" under their breath during the operation?

@AskTheDevil @ToolPackinMama are you thinking Kevlar or penicillin?

Had my first lesson today!
Flew out over the bay and back through the Golden Gate. I got to do the takeoff, most of the flight and the line up for landing. Just magical.

How much better would our society be if this point were introduced as soon as we start deciding what we believe?
https://youtube.com/shorts/JKqRrTbrk5A?si=A7KNWUbOkVNQatp1

@iamstujr Iron Maiden

@ToolPackinMama I plan on taking a family trip with my two sons to have our pictures taken with our nutsacks resting on his headstone.

A potential Trump juror, asked about his hobbies, gave us a little too much personal information: “I try to find a wife in my spare time," he said. "It’s not working.”

It's going to be fascinating to hear from the kind of person who, at this stage in the game, is ambivalent about Trump. What's going on in their lives? How do they think?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68841535