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"By 2030, fresh water demand is projected to outstrip the global water supply by nearly 56%, according to the World Resources Institute. At the same time, the growing development of artificial intelligence infrastructureโwhich depends on water for cooling systems and throughout its energy supply chainโis projected to consume 1.1 trillion to 1.7 trillion gallons of freshwater annually, roughly equivalent to the yearly water use of all households in California."
Posted on August 5, 2025 by Kan1enkehakaSTOP REDACTING THE GENOCIDEhttps://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2025/08/05/stop-redacting-the-genocide/MNN. Stop redacting Canadaโs past and current genocide policy. Redact is to remove words or information from a textโฆ
At least 58 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food from US- and Israeli-backed GHF aid sites in Gaza. Shocking footage shows bod...
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Diplomatic relations between Britain and Israel have plummeted in the past few months, as demonstrated earlier this year when Israel blocked two Labour MPs from entering the country.
Admission comes just days after Jeremy Ben-Ami denied it โ but is ignored by western media Jeremy Ben-Ami, the head of liberal US Israel lobby group J Street has told his followers that Israeโฆ
A lot of hand-wringing over RFK announcing they are winding down mRNA research funding.
What I'm noticing is that EVERY person who is outraged about this on X is some kind of research professor - in other words, they are simply worried about their grant funding, not the actual development of the technology.
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like โms-vscode.cpptoolsโ wonโt work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under โVSCode Marketplace Extensions Installerโ or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooliguโฆ
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like โthemeโ instead of being specific like โOne Darkโ).
as your attorney I recommend finding better use cases than โyou no longer have to experience the joy of artistic creation,โ and โyou wonโt have to interact with your family at allโ and โhate thinking for yourself? WELL,โ
"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 AIโs water consumption problem."
Thereโs little doubt that AI is quickly becoming a powerful if not essential tool in our society. Itโs being used to help boost efficiencies and productivity in myriad ways โโ including for the research portion of this article.
In Episode 004 of DEFCON ZERQ, Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid dissect the return of high-signal drops, drawing connections between Scavinoโs posts, Trumpโs recent statements, and coordinated comms pointi
I'm a hacker, which is the reason my house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no Alexa/Google Assistant spyware - no internet connected thermostats
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday appointed eight new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises CDC on vaccines, two days after he fired all 17 members from the committee. Here's who's on the panel.
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. wateronline.com/doc/ai-s-waterโฆ
Thereโs little doubt that AI is quickly becoming a powerful if not essential tool in our society. Itโs being used to help boost efficiencies and productivity in myriad ways โโ including for the research portion of this article.
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. 1/2
A handful of people can be seen trying to escape, only to be wiped away by crumbling houses. May they rest in peace.Clearly, there was no warning system, or it didn't work. It could also be nearly impossible to predict these kinds of events, making it impossible to "adapt". 2/2
it is not only a danger for far away continents any longer, Europe, Americas, Africa, everywhere is danger of landslides, hurricans, rainfloods, drought, heat above 40ยฐC.
Japanese People Rally to Retain Leader Resisting Trump and Trying to Prevent Japanโs Involvement in a U.S. War Against China covertactionmagazine.com/2025/โฆ
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.
Europeโs first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite โ which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package โ is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europeโs Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).
ESAโs 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, NASAโs 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.
In a detailed social media post on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned that "Israelโs" standing in the United States โhas never been so badโ and that it is increasingly viewed as a โleper state.โ
He noted that โthe Democratic party hasnโt been with us for some timeโ and added, โweโre also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,โ while crediting US President Donald Trump with maintaining support for "Israel" during his term.
โEven those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,โ Bennett wrote, adding that โIsrael is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.โ
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 โterrible damageโ while still failing to grasp โthe magnitude of the disaster.โ
@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 Microsoftโs big 50th anniversary event to accuse Microsoft of using AI for war crimes by arming Israel. Powerful email included too.
Microsoftโs 50th anniversary celebration was interrupted for a second time by an employee who protested the companyโs dealings with the Israeli government.
Another Microsoft employee has interrupted the CEO to protest against Microsoft's involvement in supplying AI technology targeting Palestinians theverge.com/news/669362/microโฆ
A Microsoft employee has disrupted Satya Nadellaโs Build keynote. Joe Lopez interrupted Nadella to protest Microsoftโs contracts with the Israeli government.
Another Microsoft employee has interrupted Microsoftโs Build conference to protest against Microsoftโs involvement in targeting Palestinians theverge.com/news/670812/microโฆ
Another protest at Microsoft Build about their involvement in targeting Palestinians caused the head of AI security to accidentally share customer Teams chats theverge.com/news/671373/microโฆ
Microsoft employees are reporting that emails that mention Palestine are being blocked. Microsoft has confirmed it has made some changes to its email systems.
โWords like โIsraelโ or โP4lestineโ do not trigger such a block,โ
Either someone's heart isn't in it or this is...not the most impressive...demonstration of Purview compliance solutions. Single character substitutions to get past the filter is so middle school I can feel the nostalgia.
Weird and not Microsoft like. They usually don't touch politics, just like refusing to include flag emojis on Windows to side-step possible geopolitical implications.
LinkedIn is such garbage. If someone asks for one I'm like "I don't have one" The gasps I look. Well? It's marketer bullshit, and we all know how I love that. *sharpens ice pick and goes to the liquor store for a chianti and fava beans*
After giving Elon Musk a platform at Build 2025, Microsoft has already adopted more of Mr. DOGE's playbook by censoring internal emails.
Yes, I know the corporation is not a democracy.
A Microsoft employee has bypassed the filtering of the words Palestine, Gaza or genocide to email thousands of employees theverge.com/microsoft/673568/โฆ
A Microsoft employee appears to have gotten around a block on words like โPalestineโ and โGazaโ that the company put in place earlier this week.
First of all... WTF is M$ doing filtering user content? I'm so glad I don't use any of their products anymore. American tech oligarchs can fuck right off. I so hate this timeline. Stop the universe and let me off. This reminds me of my first time on a carnival roller-coaster (I think I was 7 or 8...) and feeling terrified and trapped, and screaming my lungs out.
this, this so much. Its either an admission that their own tools and recommendations dont work, tools they are selling to customers and customers rely on to keep their infrastructure and employees safe & secure, or its a lazy lie, trying to supress dissent & demonstrate control, not just prevent disruption. Either way doesnt look good...
FWIW, I see no indication that the Teams chats accidentally exposed at the Build event wouldโve been labeled as containing customer confidential information.
I wish Microsoft with their โsecurity firstโ mindset and infinite resources could develop and take into use technological means to label sensitive content and protect them.
Instead they use .. checks notes .. yes, Purview DLP to prevent people from expressing their displeasure at a genocide.
The most depressing thing about the TikTok videos of Microsoft employees protesting about the companyโs involvement in supporting genocide is their colleagues, sat around them, laugh and tut at the colleagues protesting.
I donโt say this out of spite: we learned about this, in German war history: people prefer to look away. I understand, but I canโt - and thatโs that. Weโll just have to see if we have a chance of turning things around.
they are a reflection of Microsoftโs leadership: total aimless psychopaths. There is a huge difference between being a passive coward and laughing at a humanitarian protest.
I never worked for MS but this was my general experience working in tech, too. World events would happen and the attitude was that it sucked, but was someone elseโs problem and thus itโs not worth worrying about. I never worked with or for anyone who would directly participate in genocide (as far as I could tell at the time) either, mostly small businesses.
I hope they're picked up by a company with a conscience, if such a thing exists. That took guts. We need people who will call out their bosses on their bs.
Cowards. "I hear your protest", would have been to at the very least step in after the outburst and, respectfully, allowed for further discussion and debate at a later time, even if the employee still intended on leaving.
This just highlights that Microsoft suffers no ideologies other than "maximize shareholder value, regardless of the cost or consequences."
They are all the same. Hypocrite, greedy with almost no moral, but what to expect from a society that celebrates these values. Me first, I donโt care for others, never! Empathy is weakness. Isnโt this all what MAGA tells us?
So, any other outcome would have been a surprise. Brad Smith and Satja Nadella should stop their Sunday preaches and come to the clear facts. All we want is money! No questions asked, no morals, no friends.
what fucking asshole, hearing that, started BOOING
You want whatโs wrong with tech, there it is. Faced with someone who is putting their medical care and access to food and housing on the line to protest war profiteering, someone starts booing because she interrupted a celebration to bring attention to it.
Wow, the flaky AI that Israel is using for picking targets is made by Microsoft? Why am I not surprised? I mean, I'm surprised neither that Microsoft would sell an AI that would result in murdering civilians, nor that it would suck so much at precise targeting...
Surprising it took this long for a Microsoft employee to realize they're a war profiteer, given the stories of Windows installs on Navy assets causing issues at-sea.
I guess the difference is "But these wars we don't like."
ETA: Oh, I see her specific comments now. Yes, this war she does not like (and for very good reasons!). But, I hate to tell her, her company has been war profiteering for decades before she joined it and was still the day she joined.
Maybe they should put that on the orientation copy.
It's sad to see people disrespecting the *employee* for doing something that took a lot of courage. She's going to be fired but she stood on principle. That takes courage that so many lack, to stand up, not knowing how that act will affect your future going forward, respect that.
Microsoftโs 50th anniversary celebration was interrupted for a second time by an employee who protested the companyโs dealings with the Israeli government.
I have never thought much of microsoft since learning about linux, but each year I learn microsoft is worse than I could have ever thought. Then again, this is a big tech issue for sure.
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
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.
โA million calls an hourโ: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians theguardian.com/world/2025/augโฆ
Que dites-vous aux jeunes de 20 ans aujourdโhui ?
Quโils doivent sโimpliquer dans les luttes, surtout sโils sont en France. Le processus de fascisation est en cours. Ce nโest pas une petite affaire. Il sโinsinue partout y compris dans les lois. Si la jeunesse refuse dโaller voter, cโest parce quโelle est dรฉgoรปtรฉe de ces dirigeants politiques. Si la jeunesse, les prolรฉtaires, les masses populaires, les dรฉclassรฉs, les prรฉcaires ne sโorganisent pas, la fascisation va devenir la norme. -George Ibrahim Abdallah lherminerouge.fr/je-suis-resteโฆ
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Eugh, it's Attack Teenagers time again... This time over the fact that they spend a lot of time alone in their room so cannot socialise. To tackle this, the government wants to ban or limit social media and invest a pitiful amount into Youth clubs...
"The prime minister said there was a โworrying trendโ of young people finding themselves โisolated at home and disconnected from their communitiesโ."
Why are Teenagers in their bedrooms on their phones? We don't ask that...
Could it be because we chase them out of public spaces? Or because we've privatised all the public spaces? So where can Teens go and just exist? Nowhere...
And parents are more and more scared of letting children out of their sight.
Or they can join a youth club with the people they go to school with - yeah, great for those being bullied or wanting to be themselves amidst a smaller group... or just not interested in the "organised fun" on offer
Lisa Nandy has also said - "A significant number of them say that they have no adult in the world who they would trust to help and support them. That is really, really concerning." (on the Today programme)
Why is this? Is it because intergenerational friendships are frowned upon? Because no adult wants to risk being anywhere near a child not their own unless it's carefully regulated and supervised? And children/young people have been made scared of any adult?
But, sure, a smattering of extra cash for some extra-curricula activities and browbeating the Teenagers for things outside their control... that'll help.
(ยฃ88m over 3 years - around ยฃ23m is new money for extra curricular activities in a handful of school and the rest for facility upgrades)
(I can't find it but I really want to attach that picture - a map showing where a child was allowed to wander now, for their parents and for their grandparents)
UK society was chasing teens out of public places when I was a teen, and that was 35+ years ago!
Successive governments have also clamped down hard on things like partydrugs and the rave scene, so it's hardly surprising today's youth are spending more time online, it's all they have left..
@vfrmedia Yeah... "Hoodies" were "the problem" when I was growing up (I think... things is the past are a bit... in the past) and that was a whole lot more racialised and, while the racial differences will still be there, I think the problems have ramped up for everyone
@vfrmedia moral panic and resulting persecution around teens has been a thing since teens. youth centres have always been an easy cut.
but for the party of ofsted, school league tables, asbos, mosquito alarms, and possibly other ageist acts to now be shedding crocodile tears about youth isolation. i am disgust. they did this, more than anyone.
In the U.S. itโs because youth are often criminalized and there arenโt really places outside the home for them to hang out/just exist without paying money. I imagine itโs the same in the UK.
The Tikvah Fund donated the money to translate into Hebrew and publish 'Bibi: My Story,' but the sum was wasn't reported as a political donation even though the book's release was moved up to the eve of the 2022 vote
โA million calls an hourโ: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/augโฆ
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.
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