Tehran is the 24th-most populous city on Earth
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Tehran is the 24th-most populous city on Earth
Learning there's an AI data center being built that is 1/5th of the size of Manhattan and that the centers use so much electricity that they periodically limit how much housing can be built because utilities can't supply the centers and new housing simultaneously might be my joker moment.
Fun Fact II: The French Revolution was accelerated by famine from an Icelandic Volcano 30 years earlier.
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Spiderman comic panel with pterodactyl villain mad scientist. Spiderman says You can rewrite DNA on the fly and you're using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that you could cure cancer! Pterodactyl responds But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.
For your reference.
Giant humanoid pterodactyl tells Spiderman:
But I don't WANT science, clean water, a liveable temperature. I WANT to operate interment camps.
A nanny was kidnapped today by ICE in the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco. Stay vigilant, my friends.
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I want to read a novel about a beehive grift.
I don't know who might need to see this but Scale to Win is a fully-remote, progressive, political tech company building fundraising tools.
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News headline from The Hill - Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
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Alex, listen, there's only one way for us to win this
Provoke outrage
Outright
That's right
Don't engage, strike by night
Remain relentless 'til their troops take flight
Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight
Outrun
Outlast
if you or someone you love is thinking of flying out to volunteer: please donate the costs of that trip to a rent fund
Mural of Alex Pretti in Seattle, Washington. Artwork by Topsy.
A mountain lion was spotted on video in San Francisco overnight Sunday and may still be at large in the city, S.F. Animal Care and Control said on Monday.
Cancel all the NBA games, cancel your concerts, cancel your little league games. Cancel the Olympics, cancel the Superbowl.
Cancel everything until ICE is shutdown forever.
Monsters
New York Times analysis headline : China Wind as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
Welp. That happened, huh.
“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh
Oh my God, water balloons!! Genius.
Truly the man’s logic is “but we have more guns. Why does the larger country not simply eat the other countries?”
“If you want to look for where the water was, look for the breweries,” says Chris Carlsson, a local writer and historian.
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DO NOT SHOW UP TO OPPOSE THEM. The community leaders in
C-R want streets empty. This is 100% a move to escalate violence.
PLEASE DO NOT GO DOWNTOWN, TO THE U, OR TO CEDAR RIVERSIDE ON SATURDAY.
Please be careful driving near these areas.
Please do copy/paste and pass on the word.
#TwinCities
Walz is a wartime governor.
The federal government has gone to war on his state.
Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems
