A poster for protecting Sand martins
I drew this after hearing that a sand martin colony was destroyed today.
Many chicks are almost grown up but never got the chance to fly again😢
#SandMartin #Wildlife #Birds #birdart #illustration #digitalart #birding
Advocacy groups urged Louisiana regulators to investigate how Meta's complex financial setup for its Hyperion data center could affect everyday ratepayers.
Blue Owl Capital Inc. is dramatically increasing the amount of money investors can pull from one of its private credit funds after being hit with a deluge of redemption requests last month. The firm is allowing investors in Blue Owl Technology Income Corp., a business development company, to withdraw as much as 17% of the non-traded fund’s net assets, worth about $685 million, well in excess of the 5% quarterly limit the firm had previously set, according to regulatory filings. It also amended the deadline for investors to redeem their shares to Jan. 8 from Dec. 31. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/blue-owl-bdc-allows-for-17-redemptions-as-investors-storm-exit
Construction on the project was well under way when Meta announced a new financing deal last month. Meta moved the project, called Hyperion, off its books into a new joint venture with investment manager Blue Owl Capital OWL 1.89%increase; green up pointing triangle. Meta owns 20%, and funds managed by Blue Owl own the other 80%. Last month, a holding company called Beignet Investor, which owns the Blue Owl portion, sold a then-record $27.3 billion of bonds to investors, mostly to Pimco. https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-center-finances-d3a6b464
Investors want to pull money out of Blue Owl Capital? Hm. Does Blue Owl have anything else going on at the moment? Why does that name sound ...
Scoop: I learned Meta has quietly purchased roughly 1,400 acres—nearly 2X size of Manhattan’s Central Park—next to its 2,250-acre Hyperion AI data center site in Richland Parish, La., Fortune has learned. I also observed active work underway on the newly acquired land.
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Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
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The Blue Owl In The Coal Mine - And The 2026 Data Center Debt Reckoning Hey there, how are you? Long day? It's about to get longer, because I'm about to teach you about Blue Owl Capital, a "Business Development Company," and one of those "private credit" firms you've heard about recently. Per Investopedia: Created by the U.S. Congress in 1980, business development companies (BDCs) are specialized, closed-end funds designed to fuel economic growth by investing in small- to medium-sized enterprises and financially distressed businesses. These organizations not only provide the necessary capital to help emerging firms in their early phases but also assist struggling companies in restoring fiscal health. Publicly traded on major stock exchanges, such as the AMEX and Nasdaq, BDCs present high-risk and high-reward opportunities for investors. They empower smaller, nonaccredited investors to participate in the growth of young and distressed companies, differentiating themselves from traditional venture capital funds. Things are a little more complex with Blue Owl, which has a publicly-traded stock called OWL that represents the parent company, and OBDC, the business development company that's making all of these investments. There are other pieces, but they're not important to what we're talking about. Sort of. Blue Owl lends a lot of money, and has been a huge part of the AI data center boom, while also finding itself incredibly exposed to both CoreWeave and OpenAI's likely insolvencies, other than when it spent $1 billion on IPI Partners' 2.2GW of data centers in October 2024.
Blue Owl's Exposure To CoreWeave In August 2024, Blue Owl announced a $5 billion joint venture with Chirisa Technology Parks and PowerHouse Data Centers, with the intention to "deploy up to $5 billion for turnkey AI/HPC data center developments supporting CoreWeave and other hyperscale and enterprise customers." In December 2024, the joint venture raised $600 million to build a data center in Chesterfield Virginia, ostensibly for the construction. In May 2025, the joint venture raised another $750 million. In August 2025, the joint venture, which was at this point closed (?), would raise $4 billion...to build data centers for CoreWeave in Lancaster Pennsylvania. This data center had previously been announced in July 2025, but did not at the time disclose any involvement from the joint venture. You may wonder what happened in Virginia, and the answer is fire! In September 2025, Chirisa Technology Parks' data center caught fire for the second time in two months, and according to Data Center Dynamics, two of the three planned data centers are still in progress. Blue Owl's Exposure To OpenAI Stargate Abilene ($3 billion): Blue Owl organized a $3.4 billion joint venture with Crusoe and Primary Digital Infrastructure for Stargate Abilene (OpenAI) that was later expanded to $15 billion. Stargate New Mexico ($3 billion): Blue Owl sunk around $3 billion into Stargate New Mexico, a project that does not appear to have started construction, and either helped or is helping organize around $18 billion in loans according to The Information. And then, of course, there was Michigan.
Last week, Blue Owl (a private investment firm) pulled out of the $10bn Stargate Michigan data center. This is catastrophic for the industry - Blue Owl pulled together *all the money* that has gone into the biggest data center projects in the world.
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“On Tuesday, Blue Owl stock was down as much as 9 percent, nearing its lowest point as a public company. The share prices of other large lenders also fell.”2/3
How Australia’s sell out govt is participating in trump’s illegal war. declassifiedaus.org/2026/03/08/i...
The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers.
So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-paramount-mega-media-monopoly/?source=group-ShortText
Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War
The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.
Risking sterility
1/6 🇺🇸 😳 MUMPS RETURNS TO 11 STATES AS VACCINE RATES DROP 😳 🇺🇸
It starts with a jaw ache.
Now, 34 cases are confirmed across the U.S., with Maryland sounding the alarm on a preventable crisis.
Source: Tanya Lewis, Scientific American
#MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth #Mumps #VaccineGap #VaccinesWork
In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.
Pontifex maximus has some words for the Christian Nationalists who showed up in the Oval Office to bless the Iran War.
Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin's declining fortunes have taken a major turn for the better because Donald Trump's war on Iran has given the staggering Russian economy a shot in the arm as oil prices lurch upward.
Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
People got real mad at Biden for looking at his watch during a dignified transfer.
Looking forward to the same outrage at Trump for wearing a fucking hat
New records show a guard searched Jeffrey Epstein’s name minutes before his body was found. This follows thousands in unexplained cash deposits to that guard’s account days prior. These aren't coincidences; they’re receipts. We need a full independent investigation now.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
David Copperfield, seen here getting ready to hand out candy to children has finally disappeared from Vegas. Good Riddance
backlash will be massive, trump played the wrong cards on this one
Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo
It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.
A judge ordered the release of a man with lawful permanent resident status — who twice won bond before an immigration court — but has remained detained for 200 days because of the Trump administration's use of a (previously) little used "automatic stay." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Politico has confirmed two things from CENTCOM.
1. Trump has no plan for how to end this war (that actually might be the plan).
2. Even if we started scaling back today, the military won't be able to withdraw from Iran until September 2026.
Note: No clear objective has been declared.
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Well, no shit. I’ve been raising the alarm on this for years now
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This dystopian future is here now.
"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.
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Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region.
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