3.5% for a sustained protest posting several days. Unfortunately, we’re nowhere near that yet.

And growing plants that we eat.

will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

It takes time to build a power plant. A more realistic scenario is that we’ll continue as we have: AI centers will be built wherever local governments approve them for the taxes, without regard for the strain they put on the aging electrical grid and, given the massive amount of electricity they need, everyone’s electrical bill will just massively increase.

They’ve been building a large number of data centers and AI centers in Virginia, and it’s been straining and raising prices across the entire PJM interconnector region, to the point where at least a couple states are considering leaving it. Microsoft has bought the rights to and is reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, because they wanted dedicated power, and they’re still going to be pulling power from the grid.

USC law students have set up a hotline to help move immigrants move their in-person hearing to online format, reducing the risk of getting kidnapped.

He’s just absolutely determined to break the healthcare system, isn’t he?

In May, there were relatively elevated shares of delisted homes in metro areas including Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach in Florida, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler in Arizona, and Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands in Texas

When Trump was threatening to annex Canada, as well as having his goon squads kidnap people off the streets, there were a lot of Canadians who decided not to vacation in the States and more. And there were a bunch who owned summer homes in Florida and Arizona who decided to sell.

The economic uncertainty provoked by the massive layoffs, the tariff threats and the cratering value of the dollar, is also making people less secure, making them less likely to make big-dollar purchases.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about US President Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take over post-war Gaza and permanently resettle its population elsewhere.

This can only end well …

There won’t be any. You saw that lack in his last administration, everything wrong was “sabotage by the Deep State”. Now it’s that he’s doing the right things, they’re just “being implemented wrong”.

I keep thinking back to something I heard during the election: Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless.

Not that I’m bitter …

RFK wants to open “wellness farms” where people with “mental health” and addiction issues can “raise their own food”.

It’s always the same: “We can’t take because we’re busy focusing on the issue at hand” —> “We can’t talk because we’re busy investigating the problem” —> “Why are you talking about old news, we’re focused on something else that’s more important”.

CDC site showing current variants, their lineages, and percentages. Also possibly a NowCast for your state or region.

Wastewater scan for covid and other infectious diseases. Filter by state or selected individual sewage processing plants that are part of the wastewater scan project (note that not all plants test for all diseases). Tells you how prevalent those diseases are in that area, potentially before diseases start to surge. May also have variant information.

PMC data dashboard. Lots of potentially useful stuff.

Cmdr. Lillian Carranza said it was irresponsible for people to describe the arrests as “kidnappings” and encourage people to call 911, saying that there is misinformation circulating online about how and when federal authorities can arrest someone. Authorities don’t need to present a warrant when encountering someone on the street, she said; all they need is probable cause. “If people have concerns about the conduct of federal agents, they need to seek justice in court,” she said. “That is the place to litigate the case. Not the streets.”

A) ICE is moving people beyond their local jurisdiction as quickly as they can, and are deliberately not updating records as to where people have been taken, specifically to avoid being held up by the courts.

B) How do you seek justice in the courts when the officers won’t show their faces, won’t identify themselves or the agency they work for, and reports they file don’t name the officers or departments involved? How do you seek justice in the courts when they’re deliberately and repeatedly moving people around specifically to keep them beyond the reach of the courts?

Don’t get an in-door ice maker. If you have to have an ice maker, have it internal to the unit.

Check out what maintenance you need to do before you buy it, and how easy the maintenance will be given the space you’re putting the unit into. Like, if it’s a tight fit and surrounded on three sides, cleaning the coils might be problematic, etc.

You can, but then you never know what the junk is hiding: patches of bare dirt, certainly, but also oil, transmission fluid or other toxic seeping into the ground, small bits of metal parts (you know they’re not going to find everything) that become missiles when bit with a lawnmower, etc.

Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

This can only end well …

There was a NYT article about three different incidents of ice impersonators back in February.

It’s average home prices vs average wages. Things like property taxes and cost of living aren’t included.

Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

Bruuuuuucccceeeeeeeeeee!