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Shut the fuck up Steve! Lucy GET IN THE EVA

Just heard that enquiries to various car companies in the UK about their pure electric models have increased 'tenfold' in the last week. Interesting not petrol hybrids, which obviously require petrol, all the time... because they're petrol powered vehicles.
Just an observation.

“When did his house burn down?”
“How did you know his house burned down?”

Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://help.ft.com/faq/gifting-and-sharing-an-article/what-is-a-gift-article/. https://www.ft.com/content/09fa5c20-2c8f-4f41-9d91-c78476eaac20 Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities this week in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack. Fars News Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Thursday that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in recent drone strikes. Experts say Amazon’s facilities were likely targeted by Iran. Microsoft said it had not experienced any outages in the region. The strikes mark what is believed to be the world’s first military attack against the US “hyperscalers” that dominate the global cloud computing market. That could create a chilling effect on the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s plans to spend billions of dollars on local AI infrastructure in the coming years, a crucial plank of the oil-rich states’ efforts to diversify their economies. “The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.

Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis support Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Iran, and many believe it should continue until the fall of the Islamic Republic, according to a survey published by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) on Wednesday. The poll found profound backing for Operation Roaring Lion among Jewish respondents, with 93 percent expressing support. However, backing was far lower among Arab citizens of Israel, at 26%, bringing overall backing across the full sample to 82%. Support for the campaign was high across the Jewish political spectrum, though it varied somewhat by ideological camp. Among Jewish respondents on the right, 97% support the operation, compared with 93% in the center and 76% on the left. The survey also indicated that many Jewish Israelis favor continuing the campaign beyond its stated military objectives. Respondents were asked whether the operation should end once Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities are eliminated, or whether it should continue until both those military goals are achieved and the regime is overthrown. Among Jewish respondents, 57% said the operation should continue until both the military objectives and the political objective of regime change are achieved, while 36% said it should end once only the military goals are accomplished.

Politicians in US and elsewhere often claim that things would change dramatically in Israel if Netenyahu were not in charge www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-je...

Gonna hear a lot about "energy security".
Sure we want energy security.

"What has changed compared to previous oil crises and oil price scares - even the 2021-22 one -is how affordable the clean energy solutions needed to replace oil and gas imports are"
KEY point by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

BYD unveils Blade Battery 2.0: 10-70% in 5 mins, 10-97% in 9 mins, and 20,000 flash charging stations in 2026 BYD's Blade Battery 2.0 charges 10-90% in 9 mins, pioneers smart, swift flash charging network.

Whaty what what?!!!?? China wow...

20,000 x 1.5MW charging stations to be built by the end of the year.

The electricity is buffered in batteries to minimise grid impact.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Press Release: New Study Finds On-Site Power at Virginia Data Center Could Result in $53 Million–$99 Million in Annual Health Damages - The Piedmont Environmental Council A new independent analysis finds that emissions from the Vantage Data Center’s permitted on-site power system in Loudoun County could result in $53 million–$99 million per year in health-related damag...

As the tech industry increasingly turns to onsite fossil fuel power for data centers, what does this mean for nearby communities? A new study evaluates the impacts of fine particulate matter from a VA facility's onsite power system & finds $53M–$99M/yr in health damages.

1/3: Here's what wild about gas prices right now. The past two days have seen the largest increase in gas prices ($0.22/gallon) since 2005, making it one of the fastest increases ever. What's suprising about this is not only the magnitude, but the speed of the passthrough.

tech4gamers I have literally never heard of before today, so it did seem a bit suspicious

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

South Korea's stock market in meltdown amid US-Iran war Benchmark index plummets as much as 12.2 percent, eclipsing single-day plunge after 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Benchmark index plummets as much as 12.2 percent, eclipsing single-day plunge after 9/11 attacks in 2001.

You Are Elon Musk by Kris Lorischild A Billionaire Simulator

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here:

YOU ARE ELON MUSK

200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY

direkris.itch.io/elon

Iraq Starts Shutting Oil Output at Rumaila as Storage Fills Up Iraq started shutting oil production at the giant Rumaila field operated by BP Plc, according to a person familiar with the operation.

We are rapidly approaching The Cool Zone™️. Iraq is shutting down oil production at Rumaila, the world's second largest oil field.

True scientists never stop to think whether they should, only whether or not they COULD

Introducing the <Low Poly Rat Jam>!

Team up or go it alone - submissions open 6 - 22 March.

No ranks, no prizes, only a promise: I will play and review EVERY RAT GAME.

itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam #gamedev #lowpoly #lowpolyratday

“Will no one rid me of this demented pedo?!”

Bar graph comparing emissions from Grok's fossil-fuelled data centres to avoided emissions from Tesla's products for the years 2023 and 2024.

Comparison of emissions from manufacturing xAI's chatbot responses (5,127,553 tonnes CO2e) versus all Tesla products (1,056,000 tonnes CO2e) with respective analyses.

*New short blog* - finally (with help) got around to getting a total estimate of Grok's climate pollution 🫠

- Once all fossil gas online, = to between half and all of Tesla's ANNUAL GLOBAL avoided emissions

- Currently, 5x the emissions of Tesla's total manufacturing

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There's this common misconception that by the US attacking Venezuela, Iran and other countries, that the EU is safe and China is being weakened. Therefore the EU must support the US in its imperial endeavors.

Meanwhile, the greatest losers are Europe itself.

READ THEORY

Slay the Spire 2 on Steam The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!

holey moley Slay the Spire 2 is out on Thursday
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bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Meanwhile, as it succeeded in dragging the US into a war on Iran, "Israel seeks to erase Palestinians as a society. First they are destroyed in the present. Then they are deleted from the past." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“So called international organizations…no stupid rules of engagement.” We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.

Shocking death toll: "Iranian Red Crescent spokesperson Mojtaba Khaledi says that so far 201 people have been killed in today's attacks...

Khaledi says that 747 have been injured, adding that 24 provinces out of Iran's 31 have been hit."
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Pape's book studying whether or not air power succeeds is called "Bombing to Win".

Spoiler: No one ever wins.
Read the gist here:
escalationtrap.substack.com/p/the-smart-...

trying to think of the mainstream press reaction if a Dem President illegally implemented a policy this unpopular

For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.