Greenland is the wild card in Denmark’s Brussels reign
https://www.politico.eu/article/greenland-donald-trump-denmark-eu-council-presidency-wild-card-brussels/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Greenland is the wild card in Denmark’s Brussels reign
Donald Trump’s claims on the island nation could derail Copenhagen’s EU Council presidency at any time.Jacopo Barigazzi (POLITICO)
Trailer zum Bosch-Spin-Off Ballard
Sehr cool, es gibt doch noch eine weitere Spin-Off Serie von #Bosch
„Ballard“ startet am 9. Juli 2025 weltweit und exklusiv beim Streaming-Service Amazon Prime Video. Alle zehn Episoden der ersten Staffel werden sofort verfügbar sein.
#Serien #PrimeVideo @🎬 Filme & Serien 🎥
Einer der besten Crime-Serien der letzten Jahre geht doch noch weiter: Trailer zum "Bosch"-Spin-Off "Ballard"
„Ballard“ ist ein Spin-off und eine Fortsetzung zugleich. Denn die schon bald bei Amazon Prime Video startende Cop-Show schließt an die populären Serien „Bosch“ und „Bosch: Legacy“ an. Hier könnt ihr den Trailer sehen und erfahren, was euch erwartet:FILMSTARTS.de
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Ventinovesima puntata, della Stagione 24/25, di Militant Dub Area sul 87.9 di Radio Onda Rossa.Radiondarossa
🎮 "Death Stranding 2: On the Beach" - Riconnetterci è davvero servito? Scopri la nostra recensione. #DeathStranding2 #GamingReview
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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Recensione - Riconnetterci è davvero servito?
Posso finalmente parlarvi di Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, l'ultima fatica del maestro Hideo Kojima. È il capolavoro che aspettavamo?Tom's Hardware
🇮🇷🇷🇺Putin to Araqchi: "We try to help Iranian people. Please convey my best wishes to the President and the Supreme Leader of Iran." Araghchi to Putin: "Russia’s on the right side of history. Supreme Leader and President send you their best regards." (VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion
#Iran #RussiaIsATerroristState
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🤡 Putin to Araqchi: "We try to help Iranian people. Please convey my best wishes to the President and the Supreme Leader of Iran." 🇮🇷 Araghchi to Putin: "Russia’s on the right side of history.Telegram
Cerno lo accusa di "terrorismo", Sardone gli giura battaglia. Ma dice le stesse cose di Pillon
Tommaso Cerno celebra la leghista Sardone, sostenendo si sia offerta di sostenere la sua campagna contro un imam di Bologna.Gayburg
Greetings from the heart of Ukraine's battlefield!
Reconnaissance on foot today, walking some solid kilometres!!!
Hoy se celebra el 20 aniversario de la aprobación del matrimonio igualitario en #España. Pero no fue hasta 7 años después (noviembre de 2012) que dejamos de tener una espada de damocles sobre ese derecho.
Estuvimos 7 largos años sin saber si se declararía inconstitucional ese derecho. Yo ese día celebré con unas cervezas con mis compañeros de piso que tendría derecho a casarme, ya sin duda alguna.
Por eso celebramos el #OrgulloLGTBI. Porque estamos orgullosos de luchar por conseguir ser y vivir como somos.
Vía @Pasimolete
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Hoy se conmemora el 20 aniversario de la aprobación de la ley de matrimonio igualitario en España. Aprovechando la ocasión Javier Maroto debería renovar su afiliación al PP, partido conservador que se opuso por todos los medios a su aprobación.Mastodon
Ein Forschungsprojekt der Hochschule München klärt auf über Cannabis – auf Augenhöhe, faktenbasiert und ohne zu belehren. Leicht verständliche Inhalte für Social Media, Podcasts oder Aktionstage sollen speziell für Studierende Wissen vermitteln, mit Mythen aufräumen und zum Nachdenken anre...
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Tai Katō's 'The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost' (1961) is a memorably macabre if convoluted version of the J-Horror classic
my review of the new Radiance #Bluray is published in Frame Rated:
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#Japan #cinema #movies #folklore #history #horror
The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost (1961) • Limited Edition Blu-ray [Radiance] — memorably macabre if convoluted J-Horror classic
Held in high esteem among the scores of film versions of Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan / 四谷怪談 that have been made in Japan since the dawn of cinema, Tai Katō’s The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost / 怪談 お岩の亡霊, is…Remy Dean (Frame Rated)
By Ferry from Patmos to Leros
Continuing on the trip, from Patmos to Leros by small ferry.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
trump wants to be a peacemaking president
so far this term, he’s 0 for 3 on big efforts at negotiations
Lucca trionfa al campionato italiano di tiro a volo: oro individuale e doppio argento di squadra
Straordinari risultati per gli atleti della sezione provinciale Fidc di Lucca alla gara nazionale di Montecatini Terme
Per il figlio dello scomparso Scià di Persia, Reza Pahlavi “Khamenei prepara fuga, il regime è al capolinea”
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Per il figlio dello scomparso Scià di Persia, Reza Pahlavi “Khamenei prepara fuga, il regime è al capolinea”
“Questo è il nostro muro di Berlino” ha detto […..]Sassuolonotizie.it
The surprising advantages of a colony on Titan
Let's Colonize Titan
Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could liveCharles Wohlforth (Scientific American)
Das #Fediversum, konkret #Mastodon & #Blog: Wir diskutieren, ringen um tiefste Themen: #Krieg & #Frieden, #Wasser & #Klima, #Deutschland, die #EU, die #USA, #Israel und das #Atompogramm des #Iran. Es geht hoch her, auch emotional. Wie sollte es auch anders sein?
Und doch: Von wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen bleibt der Ton respektvoll, dialogisch. Es geht nicht ums #Rechthaben, sondern ums #Erkennen. Der #Todesstern aus #Eis zersplittert nicht, er schmilzt. Danke, sehr! 🙏🖖 scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-…
Todesstern aus Eis - Plädoyer für erneuerbare Sicherheitsenergien
Dr. Michael Blume freut sich über ein Star Wars-Geschenk seiner Kinder und plädiert erneut für erneuerbare Friedens- & Sicherheitsenergien.Michael Blume (Natur des Glaubens)
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@feb@loma.ml hat schon recht nur, ich würde es nicht als Ausgrenzung bezeichnen sondern so wie der ganze Post verfasst ist, als sich unterordnen zu müssen um mitspielen zu dürfen.
Das #Fediversum, konkret #Mastodon & #Blog:
Fediversum das ja eigentlich Fediverse heißt als Hashtag um mehr Reichweite zu generieren und mit Mastodon und Blog eben um explizit die eigenen folgenden anzusprechen. Also nicht um auszugrenzen aber irgendwie wird es dann doch lieber gesehen wenn nur die die der Leitkultur eben des Mastodon Netzwerkes entsprechen mitreden.
Also mir würden da noch genug Krisenherde einfallen über die niemand redet. Genug Politiker die ihren eigenen Weg gehen. Die Eingrenzung auf ein Atomprogramm wo niemand über die anderen Staaten redet usw.
Wir sehen das jeden Tag und überall, was nicht dem Mainstream entspricht wird verteufelt. Wenn sich dann doch nach einer gewissen Zeit herausstellt, dass da was dran war, dann heißt es ... na, wie hätten wir den wissen können.
Und doch: Von wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen bleibt der Ton respektvoll, dialogisch.
Naja, man muss ja nicht wie Donald Dumb auftreten um die eigene Meinung zu vertreten.
Mir persönlich ist es egal da ich nur Hashtags lese (ich muss auch nicht mitreden) und das Mastodon Netzwerk naja, es hat schon seine Gründe warum das Teil nicht wächst wie es sich manche erhoffen.
@Fl👀f, the nature observer.
Danke für deine Gedanken. Deiner Argumentation kann ich folgen.
Vielleicht waren wir vor einigen Jahren tatsächlich zu rücksichtsvoll, um den Kern des Fediverse zu bewahren. Inzwischen sehe ich mich in genau diesem Toleranzparadoxon gefangen, wie oben markiert: Ich soll akzeptieren, dass Respekt und Rücksicht in der Gemeinschaft nur noch eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen soll. Hier wird Gefolgschaft eingefordert. Unterordnung, wie du es ausgedrückt hast.
Ohne Respekt und Rücksicht geht es aber nicht. Genau das hat das Fediverse immer von Twitter, Facebook und anderen kommerziellen Plattformen unterschieden. Das hat es zu dem angenehmen und netten Ort gemacht.
Bitte helft mir, diese Bedenken zu verstehen. Denn aus meiner Sicht macht doch gerade #Freiwilligkeit das #Fediversum aus: Wir können an verschiedensten Orten, müssen aber nirgendwo mitmachen. Wenn mich jemand dominieren will, kann ich ausweichen oder auch einfach stummschalten und jenen meine #Aufmerksamkeit schenken, die ich als interessant & dialogisch erlebe. Es ist diese #Freiheit, die ich so schätze & auf #Mastodon & #Blogs konkretisiere, ohne andere zu negieren.🤔🤓🌈
Wollen wir versuchen ein wenig zu reflektieren.
Was du hier siehst, sind eine Reihe von Projekten, die als Zugangssoftware in das Fediverse dienen. Es gibt schätzungsweise 150 Projekte, die sich alle mit dem Netzwerk verbunden haben.
Keines der Projekte ist das Fediverse oder kann einen Anspruch darauf erheben das Fediverse zu sein. Sie alle gemeinsam repräsentieren und schaffen erst die Infrastruktur, über die wir uns hier unterhalten.
Sie teilen ihre Ressourcen, um Daten von einen zum anderen Punkt zu transportieren. Es handelt sich demnach um ein virtuelles Netzwerk, dass nach festgelegten Regeln kommuniziert.
Die verschiedenen Projekte haben sich darüber hinaus spezialisiert, um unterschiedliche Dienste bereitzustellen. Mastodon versteckt diese Vielfalt vor dir und lasst alles so aussehen, als wären wir alle nur das Eine. Dadurch geht dir die Vielfalt verloren, in der du dich bewegst. Allein in diesem Thread haben drei verschiedene Projekte mit dir kommuniziert, ohne dass du das zur Kenntnis genommen hast.
Diese Vielfalt zu verleugnen, ist in etwa so, als würdest du behaupten, es gäbe nur Männer in Deutschland. Wir beide wissen, dass das nicht stimmt.
Diskussionen finden über alle Plattformen statt, nicht nur auf Mastodon oder auf Blogs. Es gibt nur das eine Netzwerk, über das wir verbunden sind.
TL;DR Ohne den technischen Hintergrund verstehen zu müssen. Die Software die man verwendet um mit Menschen im Fediverse zu kommunizieren legt die verfügbaren Funktionen fest. Stichwort Zeichenlimit, Anzahl von Bildern. Und aufgrund des Marketings speziell in Deutschland glauben eben viele das was möglich ist legt Mastodon fest. Und eingefleischte Mastodon Jünger argumentieren dann eben, naja wenn man lange Texte schreiben will soll man eben einen Blog starten usw. eben ausgrenzen weil man sich nicht an die Regeln der Mastodon Community hält obwohl diese die meisten Instanzen und User stellen.
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"In the grand tradition of professional anti-feminists dating back to Phyllis Schlafly, Leavitt has found that the key to success is attacking the progressivism that allows her to have a career at all."
I 💜 @AmandaMarcotte Marcotte
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#USPol
#Feminism
Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying
From trolling the media to gaslighting the public, it's clear why Trump hired her as press secretarySalon.com
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Totalverweigerer sind nicht das Problem: Warum Bürgergeld-Bezieher nicht arbeiten
Bürgergeld-Empfänger wollen nicht arbeiten, lautet ein Vorwurf. Die Merz-Regierung will mit harten Sanktionen reagieren. Doch die Probleme liegen woanders.www.merkur.de
Hace aprox un año que estoy aquí pero nunca hice una #presentación formal, así que acá va.
Soy Fabricio, uruguayo viviendo en el viejo continente, entusiasta de la tecnología, estudiante informático desde que tengo uso de razón, apasionado del #opensource fiel creyente de utilizar dispositivos obsoletos hasta que exploten.
En mi tiempo libre elijo no tener tiempo libre y administrar servicios informáticos. Amante del cine y la música.
Buscando estar más presente en el fediverso en gral.
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A deal for those who love big ass gaming laptops
https://www.theverge.com/tech/691109/hp-omen-5070-gaming-laptop-silent-hill-2-deal-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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$1,400 can get you a powerful (and huge) HP Omen laptop with an RTX 5070
HP is making it more affordable to get a big, powerful gaming laptop with its latest deal. You can also save on Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 714 and Silent Hill 2.Cameron Faulkner (The Verge)
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Una passeggiata di salute
Tutti sanno che camminare fa bene, ma le ricerche scientifiche suggeriscono quale tipo di percorso, di ambiente e perfino di panorama scegliere per massimizzare i benefici fisici e mentali LeggiHelen Thomson (Internazionale)
nuovo post sul blog ‘esiste la ricerca’: silvia tripodi scrive sul “libro della memoria e del continuo”, di mario corticelli (+ estratti da quest’ultimo)
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#critica #déclic #ELR #ELREsisteLaRicerca #EsisteLaRicerca #kritik #LibroDellaNaturaEDelContinuo #ManifattureTeatraliMilanesi #MarioCorticelli #MTM #MTMManifattureTeatraliMilanesi #nota #note #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #SilviaTripodi
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nuovo post sul blog ‘esiste la ricerca’: silvia tripodi scrive sul “libro della memoria e del continuo”, di mario corticelli (+ estratti da quest’ultimo)
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nuovo post sul blog ‘esiste la ricerca’: silvia tripodi scrive sul “libro della memoria e del continuo”, di mario corticelli (+ estratti da quest’ultimo)
mtmteatro.it/silvia-tripodi-no…#critica #déclic #ELR #ELREsisteLaRicerca #EsisteLaRicerca #kritik #LibroDellaNaturaEDelContinuo #ManifattureTeatraliMilanesi #MarioCorticelli #MTM #MTMManifattureTeatraliMilanesi #nota #note #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #SilviaTripodi
Deals: MacBook Air up to $400 off, 11-inch iPad $299, Apple Power Adapters from $10 each, more
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/23/deals-macbook-air-11-inch-ipad/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Deals: MacBook Air $400 off, 11-inch iPad $299, more 9to5Mac
While we are still tracking a $150 price drop on the 24GB M4 Mac mini, today we are turning our...Justin Kahn (9to5Mac)
Dutch police break up climate protest near The Hague ahead of NATO summit
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/23/dutch-police-break-up-climate-protest-near-the-hague-ahead-of-nato-summit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Dutch police break up climate protest near The Hague ahead of NATO summit
Over the weekend, hundreds of people took to the streets of The Hague in protest against NATO's defence spending and the threat of war with Iran.Euronews.com
—Paul Krugman, MAGA Will Devastate Rural America
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#maga #trump #usa
MAGA Will Devastate Rural America
Trump’s policies will hit the American heartland hard, very hardPaul Krugman
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The image showcases a promotional graphic for Adobe Project Indigo, featuring four smartphone screens with different camera functionalities. The top of the image displays the Adobe Project Indigo logo, with the text "Adobe Project Indigo" below it. The screens are arranged horizontally, each with a distinct color theme and a descriptive tagline.
- The first screen, with an orange background, shows a portrait of a person with braided hair, wearing a yellow top. The tagline reads "Never miss a moment." The screen displays a camera interface with various controls.
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Each screen highlights a different feature of Adobe Project Indigo, emphasizing its capabilities in capturing moments, reducing noise, enhancing resolution, and providing camera control.
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Un bombo che gioca solo per divertimento. Un granchio che sviluppa ansia e migliora con gli ansiolitici. Un polpo che evita i luoghi dove ha provato dolore. Centinaia e centinaia di scienziati hanno ormai dichiarato che anche invertebrati come insetti e crostacei possiedono una coscienza. Le implicazioni cambieranno per sempre il nostro rapporto con il regno animale.
#coscienza #animali #futuroprossimo
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Sentono dolore. Tutti. La coscienza animale non è più negabile
Test dello specchio, memoria episodica, gioco: ecco come gli animali dimostrano di avere coscienza. E ora cosa cambia per noi?Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
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Fa piacere che ci sono arrivati anche gli scienzati 😀 😀
Chi ha in casa un animale domestico, o soltanto guarda il mondo animale intorno a tutti noi, l'ha sempre saputo😉 😉
A Black Hole of Energy Use · Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized AI data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.
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'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
A massive data center for Meta’s AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps.Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland, with a big creek—it is literally named Big Creek—running through it. It is home to rice and grain mills and an elementary school and a few houses. Soon, it will also be home to Meta’s massive, 4 million square foot AI data center hosting thousands of perpetually humming servers that require billions of watts of energy to power. And that energy-guzzling infrastructure will be partially paid for by Louisiana residents.
The plan is part of what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would be “a defining year for AI.” On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was “building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” posting a map of Manhattan along with the data center overlaid. Zuckerberg went on to say that over the coming years, AI “will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership. Let's go build! 💪”
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
This will be a defining year for AI. In 2025, I expect Meta AI will be the leading assistant serving more than 1 billion people, Llama 4 will become the leading state of the art model, and we’ll build an AI engineer that will start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts. To power this, Meta is building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.Threads
What Zuckerberg did not mention is that "Let's go build" refers not only to the massive data center but also three new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants and a transmission line to fuel it serviced by Entergy Louisiana, the region’s energy monopoly.Key details about Meta’s investments with the data center remain vague, and Meta’s contracts with Entergy are largely cloaked from public scrutiny. But what is known is the $10 billion data center has been positioned as an enormous economic boon for the area—one that politicians bent over backward to facilitate—and Meta said it will invest $200 million into “local roads and water infrastructure.”
A January report from NOLA.com said that the the state had rewritten zoning laws, promised to change a law so that it no longer had to put state property up for public bidding, and rewrote what was supposed to be a tax incentive for broadband internet meant to bridge the digital divide so that it was only an incentive for data centers, all with the goal of luring in Meta.
But Entergy Louisiana’s residential customers, who live in one of the poorest regions of the state, will see their utility bills increase to pay for Meta’s energy infrastructure, according to Entergy’s application. Entergy estimates that amount will be small and will only cover a transmission line, but advocates for energy affordability say the costs could balloon depending on whether Meta agrees to finish paying for its three gas plants 15 years from now. The short-term rate increases will be debated in a public hearing before state regulators that has not yet been scheduled.
The Alliance for Affordable Energy called it a “black hole of energy use,” and said “to give perspective on how much electricity the Meta project will use: Meta’s energy needs are roughly 2.3x the power needs of Orleans Parish … it’s like building the power impact of a large city overnight in the middle of nowhere.”
404 Media reached out to Entergy for comment but did not receive a response.
By 2030, Entergy’s electricity prices are projected to increase 90 percent from where they were in 2018, although the company attributes much of that to damage to infrastructure from hurricanes. The state already has a high energy cost burden in part because of a storm damage to infrastructure, and balmy heat made worse by climate change that drives air conditioner use. The state's homes largely are not energy efficient, with many porous older buildings that don’t retain heat in the winter or remain cool in the summer.
“You don't just have high utility bills, you also have high repair costs, you have high insurance premiums, and it all contributes to housing insecurity,” said Andreanecia Morris, a member of Housing Louisiana, which is opposed to Entergy’s gas plant application. She believes Meta’s data center will make it worse. And Louisiana residents have reasons to distrust Entergy when it comes to passing off costs of new infrastructure: in 2018, the company’s New Orleans subsidiary was caught paying actors to testify on behalf of a new gas plant. “The fees for the gas plant have all been borne by the people of New Orleans,” Morris said.
In its application to build new gas plants and in public testimony, Entergy says the cost of Meta’s data center to customers will be minimal and has even suggested Meta’s presence will make their bills go down. But Meta’s commitments are temporary, many of Meta’s assurances are not binding, and crucial details about its deal with Entergy are shielded from public view, a structural issue with state energy regulators across the country.
AI data centers are being approved at a breakneck pace across the country, particularly in poorer regions where they are pitched as economic development projects to boost property tax receipts, bring in jobs and where they’re offered sizable tax breaks. Data centers typically don’t hire many people, though, with most jobs in security and janitorial work, along with temporary construction work. And the costs to the utility’s other customers can remain hidden because of a lack of scrutiny and the limited power of state energy regulators. Many data centers—like the one Meta is building in Holly Ridge—are being powered by fossil fuels. This has led to respiratory illness and other health risks and emitting greenhouse gasses that fuel climate change. In Memphis, a massive data center built to launch a chatbot for Elon Musks’ AI company is powered by smog-spewing methane turbines, in a region that leads the state for asthma rates.
“In terms of how big these new loads are, it's pretty astounding and kind of a new ball game,” said Paul Arbaje, an energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is opposing Entergy’s proposal to build three new gas-powered plants in Louisiana to power Meta’s data center.
Entergy Louisiana submitted a request to the state’s regulatory body to approve the construction of the new gas-powered plants that would create 2.3 gigawatts of power and cost $3.2 billion in the 1440 acre Franklin Farms megasite in Holly Ridge, an unincorporated community of Richland Parish. It is the first big data center announced since Louisiana passed large tax breaks for data centers last summer.
In its application to the public utility commission for gas plants, Entergy says that Meta has a planned investment of $5 billion in the region to build the gas plants in Richland Parish, Louisiana, where it claims in its application that the data center will employ 300-500 people with an average salary of $82,000 in what it points out is “a region of the state that has long struggled with a lack of economic development and high levels of poverty.” Meta’s official projection is that it will employ more than 500 people once the data center is operational. Entergy plans for the gas plants to be online by December 2028.
In testimony, Entergy officials refused to answer specific questions about job numbers, saying that the numbers are projections based on public statements from Meta.
A spokesperson for Louisiana’s Economic Development told 404 Media in an email that Meta “is contractually obligated to employ at least 500 full-time employees in order to receive incentive benefits.”
When asked about jobs, Meta pointed to a public facing list of its data centers, many of which the company says employ more than 300 people. A spokesperson said that the projections for the Richland Parish site are based on the scale of the 4 million square foot data center. The spokesperson said the jobs will include “engineering and other technical positions to operational roles and our onsite culinary staff.”
When asked if its job commitments are binding, the spokesperson declined to answer, saying, “We worked closely with Richland Parish and Louisiana Economic Development on mutually beneficial agreements that will support long-term growth in the area.”
Others are not as convinced. “Show me a data center that has that level of employment,” says Logan Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy in Louisiana.
Entergy has argued the new power plants are necessary to satiate the energy need from Meta’s massive hyperscale data center, which will be Meta’s largest data center and potentially the largest data center in the United States. It amounts to a 25 percent increase in Entergy Louisiana’s current load, according to the Alliance for Affordable Energy.
Entergy requested an exemption from a state law meant to ensure that it develops energy at the lowest cost by issuing a public request for proposals, claiming in its application and testimony that this would slow them down and cause them to lose their contracts with Meta.
Meta has agreed to subsidize the first 15 years of payments for construction of the gas plants, but the plant’s construction is being financed over 30 years. At the 15 year mark, its contract with Entergy ends. At that point, Meta may decide it doesn’t need three gas plants worth of energy because computing power has become more efficient or because its AI products are not profitable enough. Louisiana residents would be stuck with the remaining bill.
“It's not that they're paying the cost, they're just paying the mortgage for the time that they're under contract,” explained Devi Glick, an electric utility analyst with Synapse Energy.
When asked about the costs for the gas plants, a Meta spokesperson said, “Meta works with our utility partners to ensure we pay for the full costs of the energy service to our data centers.” The spokesperson said that any rate increases will be reviewed by the Louisiana Public Service Commission. These applications, called rate cases, are typically submitted by energy companies based on a broad projection of new infrastructure projects and energy needs.
Meta has technically not finalized its agreement with Entergy but Glick believes the company has already invested enough in the endeavor that it is unlikely to pull out now. Other companies have been reconsidering their gamble on AI data centers: Microsoft reversed course on centers requiring a combined 2 gigawatts of energy in the U.S. and Europe. Meta swept in to take on some of the leases, according to Bloomberg.
And in the short-term, Entergy is asking residential customers to help pay for a new transmission line for the gas plants at a cost of more than $500 million, according to Entergy’s application to Louisiana’s public utility board. In its application, the energy giant said customers’ bills will only rise by $1.66 a month to offset the costs of the transmission lines. Meta, for its part, said it will pay up to $1 million a year into a fund for low-income customers. When asked about the costs of the new transmission line, a Meta spokesperson said, “Like all other new customers joining the transmission system, one of the required transmission upgrades will provide significant benefits to the broader transmission system. This transmission upgrade is further in distance from the data center, so it was not wholly assigned to Meta.”
When Entergy was questioned in public testimony on whether the new transmission line would need to be built even without Meta’s massive data center, the company declined to answer, saying the question was hypothetical.
Some details of Meta’s contract with Entergy have been made available to groups legally intervening in Entergy’s application, meaning that they can submit testimony or request data from the company. These parties include the Alliance for Affordable Energy, the Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
But Meta—which will become Entergy’s largest customer by far and whose presence will impact the entire energy grid—is not required to answer questions or divulge any information to the energy board or any other parties. The Alliance for Affordable Energy and Union of Concerned Scientists attempted to make Meta a party to Entergy’s application—which would have required it to share information and submit to questioning—but a judge denied that motion on April 4.
The public utility commissions that approve energy infrastructure in most states are the main democratic lever to assure that data centers don’t negatively impact consumers. But they have no oversight over the tech companies running the data centers or the private companies that build the centers, leaving residential customers, consumer advocates and environmentalists in the dark. This is because they approve the power plants that fuel the data centers but do not have jurisdiction over the data centers themselves.
“This is kind of a relic of the past where there might be some energy service agreement between some large customer and the utility company, but it wouldn't require a whole new energy facility,” Arbaje said.
A research paper by Ari Peskoe and Eliza Martin published in March looked at 50 regulatory cases involving data centers, and found that tech companies were pushing some of the costs onto utility customers through secret contracts with the utilities. The paper found that utilities were often parroting rhetoric from AI boosting politicians—including President Biden—to suggest that pushing through permitting for AI data center infrastructure is a matter of national importance.
“The implication is that there’s no time to act differently,” the authors wrote.
In written testimony sent to the public service commission, Entergy CEO Phillip May argued that the company had to bypass a legally required request for proposals and requirement to find the cheapest energy sources for the sake of winning over Meta.
“If a prospective customer is choosing between two locations, and if that customer believes that location A can more quickly bring the facility online than location B, that customer is more likely to choose to build at location A,” he wrote.
Entergy also argues that building new gas plants will in fact lower electricity bills because Meta, as the largest customer for the gas plants, will pay a disproportionate share of energy costs. Naturally, some are skeptical that Entergy would overcharge what will be by far their largest customer to subsidize their residential customers. “They haven't shown any numbers to show how that's possible,” Burke says of this claim. Meta didn’t have a response to this specific claim when asked by 404 Media.
Some details, like how much energy Meta will really need, the details of its hiring in the area and its commitment to renewables are still cloaked in mystery.
“We can't ask discovery. We can't depose. There's no way for us to understand the agreement between them without [Meta] being at the table,” Burke said.
It’s not just Entergy. Big energy companies in other states are also pushing out costly fossil fuel infrastructure to court data centers and pushing costs onto captive residents. In Kentucky, the energy company that serves the Louisville area is proposing 2 new gas plants for hypothetical data centers that have yet to be contracted by any tech company. The company, PPL Electric Utilities, is also planning to offload the cost of new energy supply onto its residential customers just to become more competitive for data centers.
“It's one thing if rates go up so that customers can get increased reliability or better service, but customers shouldn't be on the hook to pay for new power plants to power data centers,” Cara Cooper, a coordinator with Kentuckians for Energy Democracy, which has intervened on an application for new gas plants there.
These rate increases don’t take into account the downstream effects on energy; as the supply of materials and fuel are inevitably usurped by large data center load, the cost of energy goes up to compensate, with everyday customers footing the bill, according to Glick with Synapse.
Glick says Entergy’s gas plants may not even be enough to satisfy the energy needs of Meta’s massive data center. In written testimony, Glick said that Entergy will have to either contract with a third party for more energy or build even more plants down the line to fuel Meta’s massive data center.
To fill the gap, Entergy has not ruled out lengthening the life of some of its coal plants, which it had planned to close in the next few years. The company already pushed back the deactivation date of one of its coal plants from 2028 to 2030.
The increased demand for gas power for data centers has already created a widely-reported bottleneck for gas turbines, the majority of which are built by 3 companies. One of those companies, Siemens Energy, told Politico that turbines are “selling faster than they can increase manufacturing capacity,” which the company attributed to data centers.
Most of the organizations concerned about the situation in Louisiana view Meta’s massive data center as inevitable and are trying to soften its impact by getting Entergy to utilize more renewables and make more concrete economic development promises.
Andreanecia Morris, with Housing Louisiana, believes the lack of transparency from public utility commissions is a bigger problem than just Meta. “Simply making Meta go away, isn't the point,” Morris says. “The point has to be that the Public Service Commission is held accountable.”
Burke says Entergy owns less than 200 megawatts of renewable energy in Louisiana, a fraction of the fossil fuels it is proposing to fuel Meta’s center. Entergy was approved by Louisiana’s public utility commission to build out three gigawatts of solar energy last year , but has yet to build any of it.
“They're saying one thing, but they're really putting all of their energy into the other,” Burke says.
New gas plants are hugely troubling for the climate. But ironically, advocates for affordable energy are equally concerned that the plants will lie around disused - with Louisiana residents stuck with the financing for their construction and upkeep. Generative AI has yet to prove its profitability and the computing heavy strategy of American tech companies may prove unnecessary given less resource intensive alternatives coming out of China.
“There's such a real threat in such a nascent industry that what is being built is not what is going to be needed in the long run,” said Burke. “The challenge remains that residential rate payers in the long run are being asked to finance the risk, and obviously that benefits the utilities, and it really benefits some of the most wealthy companies in the world, But it sure is risky for the folks who are living right next door.”
The Alliance for Affordable Energy expects the commission to make a decision on the plants this fall.
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Vamos em tour!! We're gonna go on tour!!
3 months before our deadline to buy the space and already with more than 50% of the amount we need, we're setting off on a crowdfunding tour across anti-authoritarian spaces and festivals in Europe!
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Head to Print Head: CNC vs FDM
It’s a question new makers often ask: “Should I start with a CNC machine or a 3D Printer?”– or, once you have both, every project gets the question “Should I use my CNC or 3D printer?” — and the answer is to both is, of course, “it depends”. In the video embedded below by [NeedItMakeIt] you can see a head-to-head comparison for one specific product he makes, CRATER, a magnetic, click-together stacking tray for tabletop gaming. (He says tabletop gaming, but we think these would be very handy in the shop, too.)
[NeedItMakeIt] takes us through the process for both FDM 3D Printing in PLA, and CNC Machining the same part in walnut. Which part is nicer is absolutely a matter of taste; we can’t imagine many wouldn’t chose the wood, but de gustibus non disputandum est–there is no accounting for taste. What there is accounting for is the materials and energy costs, which are both surprising– that walnut is cheaper than PLA for this part is actually shocking, but the amount of power needed for dust collection is something that caught us off guard, too.
Of course the process is the real key, and given that most of the video follows [NeedItMakeIt] crafting the CNC’d version of his invention, the video gives a good rundown to any newbie just how much more work is involved in getting a machined part ready for sale compared to “take it off the printer and glue in the magnets.” (It’s about 40 extra minutes, if you want to skip to the answer.) As you might expect, labour is by far the greatest cost in producing these items if you value your time, which [NeedItMakeIt] does in the spreadsheet he presents at the end.
What he does not do is provide an answer, because in the case of this part, neither CNC or 3D Printing is “better”. It’s a matter of taste– which is the great thing about DIY. We can decide for ourselves which process and which end product we prefer. “There is no accounting for taste”, de gustibus non disputandum est, is true enough that it’s been repeated since Latin was a thing. Which would you rather, in this case? CNC or 3D print? Perhaps you would rather 3D Print a CNC? Or have one machine to do it all? Let us know in the comments for that sweet, sweet engagement.
While you’re engaging, maybe drop us a tip, while we offer our thanks to [Al] for this one.
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Trump’s reckless Iran strikes could backfire spectacularly
America has entered few wars with less forethought, less deliberation, and more contempt for the public.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
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Former RFE/RL Reporter, Opposition Candidate Among Prisoners Freed By Belarus
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The Strait Of Hormuz: What Is It And Why Does It Matter?
Iranian lawmakers have been backing calls to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global trade route, where more than a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes every day.RFE/RL
I just re-watched @_elena incredible Fediverse promo-video and... well, it's just so good and so inspiring!!
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Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.Special thanks to:
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A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with itElena Rossini
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Crescita costante per il mercato delle auto usate in Italia: +3,9% ad aprile 2025. Lombardia in testa, diesel più richiesti e interesse per auto giovani.
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Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board
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Daniel Ek, Spotify CEO and drone warfare profiteer.
Ek’s investment company Prima Materia dumped its first €100 million in Helsing, the German defense tech group with roots in AI software, back in 2021. Now it’s leading a €600 million round to capitalize on the shift to drone warfare.Thomas Ricker (The Verge)
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