"Even before the AI boom, water industry professionals worried about the massive amounts of water data centers required for cooling and how that demand impacts water scarcity issues worldwide. The rise of AI is now making this worse. But the problem goes well beyond just consuming water for cooling. Challenges associated with wastewater, chip manufacturing, and even efforts to produce cleaner energy are all exacerbating AI’s water consumption problem."

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While I was watching last night's DEFCON ZERQ podcast on Rumble with Alpha Warrior & Josh Reid.

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Someone posted this in the Chat:

"They need to start Spray-Painting Deep State Kills/Convictions on the side of the Whitehouse, like they did on the fighter planes in WWII."

ACIP 17 replaced with incompetent dipshits.
Kulldorf? May he die of a preventable infection.

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Cooling tech used in data centers are producing wastewater contaminated with dust, chemicals, and minerals. Chip manufacturing also generates wastewater, including heavy metals. This wastewater is toxic to the environment and can be difficult for municipal wastewater plants to treat and remove. Mining precious metals and rare earth elements required for semiconductors and other AI hardware also consumes and pollutes water resources.
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A sudden flashflood hit Dharali village in India. This is not an emergency, it's not a new normal, it's something that will get worse until we stop our toxic dependence from fossil fuels & stop meat-consumption-led deforestation.
Credit to @weathermonitors for video.
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Japanese People Rally to Retain Leader Resisting Trump and Trying to Prevent Japan’s Involvement in a U.S. War Against China covertactionmagazine.com/2025/…

No surprises here. The neolib/corporate Dems are worthless shit when they're not just crooks or worse, evil assholes arming and funding nazi Israel's genocide while screwing workers, the people and planet. Fuck all these MFs and EVERY goddamned nazi repugniQan POS.

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Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch


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MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite

Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).

Watch live on ESA Web TV One.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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First asteroid sightings push Hera’s camera to the limit


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Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove useful for planetary defence.

Hera is currently travelling through space on its way to a binary asteroid system. In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, changing its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos. Now, Hera is returning to the system to help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for planetary defence.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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FYI, when Trump’s HHS secretary RFK decided to cancel (aka waste) $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccines, what he did was defund the platform that brought the only promising treatment for pancreatic cancer in decades. That’s right — we have great vaccine-based cancer treatments in development around the world, and the mRNA based vaccines have worked quite well in trials. RFK wants you to die of pancreatic cancer like god intended.

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In a detailed social media post on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned that "Israel’s" standing in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is increasingly viewed as a “leper state.”

He noted that “the Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time” and added, “we’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” while crediting US President Donald Trump with maintaining support for "Israel" during his term.

#Gaza

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“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett wrote, adding that “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”

Bennett attributed the worsening situation to the current Israeli government, which he has long criticized. He accused it of pursuing a chaotic and self-defeating foreign policy and claimed it is causing “terrible damage” while still failing to grasp “the magnitude of the disaster.”

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Sorry no, the Democratic party is totally with "Israel". There's only controlled opposition who are allowed when their opposition makes absolutely no difference.
Only Republicans Marjorie Taylor Green & Thomas Massie openly criticize trump & his Israel First policies. By contrast, you never heard any Democrat openly criticize Biden for his Israel First policies. (Except Rashida Tlaib, who was criticized for it.) Our Congress overwhelming supports "Israel" --just not the people.

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@GossiTheDog the biggest cooperations take bad decisions, with perhaps IBM in WWII as a similar example...

In the platform economy, it's hard to stay clean from others running software for purposes you would not agree with. But, taking on as a client the army of a country that is suspected of war crimes and has been summoned to stand trial at international court, that would be easy to avoid.

By choosing to take on these huge contracts, M$ has become a player in modern arms industry.

Let's not forget they killed the supposed "shooter" too over that. Someone died that day. Someone that was probably approached by someone in the Trump campaign and offered money if he'd go up onto a roof and aim an air rifile at Trump and pull the trigger. Someone who was probably told don't worry you'll be fine. That he'll be okay. Ignore the fact that he was a stupid son-of-a-bitch. But he still died that day. And Trump didn't. Because there was no bullet. It was all special effects. ---

Microsoft AI employee has interrupted Microsoft’s big 50th anniversary event to accuse Microsoft of using AI for war crimes by arming Israel. Powerful email included too.

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Let them continue to assume that the vitriol they are experiencing back home is nothing more than a "Democratic op". Shit, Democracts couldn't organize a PTA fundraiser for their child's school right now.

But sure, let them continue to be delusional that their base isn't pissed-off with them right now. #USpol

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@ScottAdamsSays

The lawfare against Trump made it easier for the public to imagine jailing an ex-president.
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A recent poll has revealed that 54% of likely U.S. voters believe that members of former President Barack Obama’s national security team likely committed crimes by promoting a false narrative about Donald Trump’s ties with Russia.

Rasmussen Reports conducted a national telephone and online survey of 1,172 U.S. likely voters last week, : ⬇️
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This is just sensationally bad: Microsoft struck a deal with the Israeli secret intelligence arm Unit 8200 that allowed it to build a powerful new mass surveillance tool that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
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«Δυστυχώς, με τα σημερινά μισθώματα υπάρχει κόπωση στους ενοικιαστές. Πολλά διαμερίσματα μένουν ξενοίκιαστα, γι’ αυτό και καλούμε τους ιδιοκτήτες να ρίξουν τις τιμές, ώστε να νοικιαστούν και να έχουν απόδοση.

Νομίζω ότι έχουμε φτάσει στο “πικ” των ενοικίων. Δεν αντέχουν οι φοιτητές και οι οικογένειες άλλες αυξήσεις. Ελπίζουμε σε σταδιακή αποκλιμάκωση των τιμών από εδώ και πέρα»

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σε κάποιες (πολλές) περιοχές, δυστυχώς, δεν υπάρχουν ούτε σπίτια, λόγω μετατροπής των περισσοτέρων σε airbnb. Ότι απομένει, ακόμη και κοτέτσι, η τιμή του εκτοξεύεται. Αν δεν αλλάξει κάτι, θα πεθάνουμε δουλεύοντας για να πληρώνουμε το ενοίκιο.
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@giok ισχύει, εδώ πάντως είναι πολλά τα ξενοίκιαστα.
Είναι περίεργη κατάσταση γιατί εμπλέκονται ιδιοκτήτες με δεκάδες ακίνητα που σκόπιμα δεν ρίχνουν τις τιμές.
Προτιμούν να νοικιάζουν τα μισά σε ψηλές τιμές, παρά όλα σε χαμηλότερες. Χειραγωγούν την αγορά

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Qu’ils doivent s’impliquer dans les luttes, surtout s’ils sont en France. Le processus de fascisation est en cours. Ce n’est pas une petite affaire. Il s’insinue partout y compris dans les lois. Si la jeunesse refuse d’aller voter, c’est parce qu’elle est dégoûtée de ces dirigeants politiques. Si la jeunesse, les prolétaires, les masses populaires, les déclassés, les précaires ne s’organisent pas, la fascisation va devenir la norme.
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Musk's exit from politics is already leaving some Republicans in 'straits': analyst - NewsBreak newsbreak.com/share/4132815387…

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“...I will fear no evil: for thou art with me...”, Psalm 23:4

“...he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted...,”, Luke 4:18, AKJV

“...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...”, Acts 16:31, AKJV

“...He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”, John 6:47, AKJV

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U.S. charity gave over $100,000 to publish Netanyahu's autobiography. It wasn't reported as a donation haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians | The Guardian
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Please consider avoiding big US tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta if you care about Palestinian lives. All of them are complicit in the genocide. There are alternatives like Linux and the Fediverse.

#Gaza #FreePalestine #Microsoft

Joe Biden has shockingly confirmed he not only instructed staff members to use an autopen to sign off on thousands of pardons at the end of his term, he often didn’t even know the names of those he was pardoning newsbreak.com/share/4130817295…

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Linux works with virtually every programming language. Whether you're working with PHP, Javascript, C or C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Java, you can write, and execute almost anything. The real advantage is how you can setup and install all you need to start working with any of these languages.

Linux distributions have package managers built-in, and these give you access to anything you need to write in these languages. You don't need to install a package manager yourself, or hunt for installers to download, and then for the extra libraries and modules you might need. You can install all of them in one fell swoop, either graphically, or with one single command line, which makes it way faster to get started than on any other operating system.

And this ease of access and installation means that it's also way easier to write documentation and guides to help other people collaborate on your project, and setting up their development environment so they can get started as fast as possible.

You could also just write a bash script, so anyone who starts working on the project can just run that script, and get setup automatically.

For web development, using Linux is also a no brainer. The vast majority of servers you website or webapp will run on in production is using a Linux distro.

When you're coding your website using Linux, the way you're setting up your environment, the way you interact with your system, they're all extremely similar to the OS the website or webapp will actually run on.

Next thing is the command line utilities. Out of the box, these are simply better on Linux than on Windows, or even on macOS, if you haven't installed something like homebrew and all the tools you want to use.

Linux also has built in support for SSH.

Now, this isn't necessarily an advantage of Linux over WIndows or macOS, but it's a solid point nonetheless: most IDEs you'd want to use are on Linux. You get access to all the big ones: VS Code, Android Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Zend, PHStorm, all text editors you might like, the only big one missing might be XCode, which is just on macOS.

Linux also has very high availability. Most distributions are completely free of charge. Linux works beautifully in virtual machines, something that can't be said of Windows 11, which might require a trip to the registry to bypass the TPM checks and locks MS put in place, or of macOS, which doesn't just install in a VM.

Linux is also available through WSL, so you can still use bash, and a lot of Linux programs and tools, including graphical ones, on an OS you might be more familiar with, namely, Windows.

Linux offers choice. Whatever language you want to use, on whatever device, there's a distro optimized for that. And Linux is the only OS that lets you do that with your desktop experience as well. From the choice of desktop environment, to the customization available with themes, extensions, widgets, docks, panels, tiling window managers, and more, you WILL have the exact working environment you prefer, or you'll build one that suits you.

Linux also won't force you to update in the middle of your work, and it won't nag you with ads in its menu or default apps, something that can't be said of other operating systems. It also won't make your hardware obsolete by denying it access to the latest OS upgrade.

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Parts of the Internet are going dark for UK users since the Online Safety Act heaped weighty duties on platforms.

Sites are geoblocking the UK, overmoderating content, age-gating access or shutting down completely.

We need your help to track how content is being censored 🫵

Use our tool to report a site that's shutting down or restricting access to UK users as a result of the #OSA.

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