Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Dunno about Microsoft and AWS but AFAIK Google has been powering all their data centers with “renewables” for a very long time.
I’m pretty sure many of these data centers have dedicated power sources due to the high consumption, and opt for things like hydroelectric due to cost per watt.
And at least there’s a serious end product delivered, unlike crypto mining which wastes trillions of hashes to make a secure transactional network.
A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza....
Its plausible that Bernie might have been successful on his own in recent elections had he made his own party considering how much support he got in the DNC’s primaries despite being a technical independent.
It’s not impossible for a new party to compete successfully, just very difficult.
If it took Imran Khan 20 years to create a populist party worthy of rivaling the military establishment in Pakistan who runs an actual fraudulent election every season, surely America can create a grassroots party worthy of dethroning the GOP and DNC.
Repeatedly voting those two parties and expecting ranked choice voting to become a thing is the real fallacy here. Neither party would pass legislation that weakens their stronghold on elections.
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
Not sure whether to poke at the fact that there probably won’t be any vacancies or that he would actually choose a progressive considering people are resigning from his administration every week over Gaza.
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
I still remember demoing how easily they can manipulate people by searching “Pakistan News” and the results being exclusively all Indian media outlet propaganda way back in 2016.
I really feel like they never got properly exposed for this just because it’s a search engine and not a social media, so people didn’t care enough about it. Also because Google was still top of the game in most results compared to other sites back then.
Ah okay I was confused for a sec because I couldn’t pick up the sarcasm of the original comment because too many people have been unironically sharing that sentiment, lol.
Really starting to think that if USS Liberty happened again, Biden still would not change anything despite not being able to cover it up like LBJ due to the modern age of media and internet.
Long before I used vim, some dude shared a bunch of vim memes with “:q!” in them.
It was actually vi on some ye olde unix machine, but I remembered the meme and got out, searched up how to use vim, and then jumped back in to edit the file lol.
A Times visual analysis found that munition debris filmed at the scene was remnants of a GBU-39, a bomb designed and manufactured in the United States.
I even saw someone with a very old and active account and a mod of a big sub get perma banned by admins because he made a comment against Israel a few years ago.
Like straight up deleted everything. We only knew because revvedit managed to grab his last comment.
Turns out, the difference in the socket is just a few pins here and there, and you can make a 8th or 9th generation Coffee Lake CPU work on your Z170/270 board if you apply a few Kapton tape fixes and mod your BIOS,
Modders giving me a new reason to keep my ye olde z170 mobo instead of just making a new machine with all the nice hardware
The UK and the US struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three US officials said....
This all seems pretty tame compared to Pakistan getting couped for the nth time by the USA because they wanted to do trade with China and Russia because the USA kept screwing them over with infinite IMF loans and expensive LNG.
Now their democratically elected leader is in jail, the economy imploded, and they have a massive LNG shortage.
China is a bully, but they don’t infiltrate your entire government everyday like the CIA has been doing for several decades.
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
State Department official resigns after Biden administration says Israel not blocking Gaza aid (www.middleeasteye.net)
A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza....
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
Source...
Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius — that’s more than 125°F (edition.cnn.com)
Hillary Clinton celebrates Donald Trump verdict with 'She was right' merch (www.irishstar.com)
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
WTF Joe... (lemmy.world)
Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan? (foreignpolicy.com)
Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city....
Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump has been found guilty of using a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election....
"My juror": Trump believed a loyalist on the jury could save him, until the very end (www.salon.com)
Pressure builds on Biden after Israeli strike kills dozens of civilians in Rafah (abcnews.go.com)
How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? (lemmy.world)
Western Zionists vs. Israeli Zionists (lemmy.ml)
Israel Used U.S.-Made Bombs in Strike That Killed Dozens in Rafah [Robin Stein, Christiaan Triebert, and Haley Willis | May 29, 2024 | NY Times] (www.nytimes.com)
A Times visual analysis found that munition debris filmed at the scene was remnants of a GBU-39, a bomb designed and manufactured in the United States.
Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape (hackaday.com)
White House says Israel’s latest actions in Rafah do not cross US red line (www.theguardian.com)
UK and US strike Houthis in Yemen after surge in shipping attacks (www.euronews.com)
The UK and the US struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three US officials said....
Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models (apnews.com)
Israeli military takes control of vital Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt (www.reuters.com)
Spotted in Atlanta (lemmy.world)
China has threatened trade with some countries after feuds. They're calling 'the firm' for help - Japan Today (japantoday.com)
Ukrainian M1 Abrams Tanks Get Elaborate 'Cope Cages,' Soviet Explosive Reactive Armor (www.twz.com)
Pakistan former PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case (www.bbc.com)