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JUST IN: OpenAI engineer reveals he's had Codex running for 26 days straight searching for the lost city of Atlantis, as “vibe archaeology” emerges as a new use for AI agents.
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>cap interest rates at 10%
>>credit card companies drop majority of borrowers
>make it illegal to deny people credit based on credit scores
>>credit card companies go bankrupt
>government lends money with zero underwriting
>>taxpayer foots bill
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JUST IN: Vibecoder discovers previously unmapped ancient Maya settlement hidden beneath the Mexican jungle using 48 AI agents & NASA lidar data, despite having no archaeology experience.
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We are reaching levels of mass hysteria over data centers I couldn’t have dreamed of. She helps block $5 billion in development on a lot that’s been abandoned for over 20 years, in a county already struggling with the closure of Six Flags, the (impending) departure of the Commanders, and federal job losses. And her father compares her to Medgar Evers, who was assassinated for his work as a civil rights leader. I mean, come on!
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Third worldism in action: facing a $150M deficit, the county is turning down a $5B project to keep a mall lot that's been abandoned for 24 years.
25,000 signatures for $0 in revenue.
I guarantee the same people will be complaining about underfunded social programs next.
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“Tax the rich” but do not under any circumstances let them build anything taxable on your local expanse of asphalt.
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Same thing happened in Western NY. Local IG Reels activist fomented outrage against a data center proposed for an abandoned steel and coke processing plant. Killed the project
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Genomsnittsåldern hos personalen i Manhattanprojektet låg på 25 år. Det krävs mer erfarenhet för en enkel handläggartjänst på en myndighet idag än det krävdes för att få skapa världens första atombomb.
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I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
I tend to think short form video isn't the monster people portray it to be until I go in public and watch what an average person is scrolling through and I am horrified
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Payroll tax withholding is a good way to ensure normgorillas pay taxes at all but also insulates them from realizing just how heavily they are taxed. If everyone had to make quarterly/annual payments we would probably be much more fiscally responsible as a country
Don't underestimate Muse. I transferred an automation I was running on Codex over to muse and it made it way better, gave me a clean UI Space on the app, and now it all runs in the cloud so no more worrying if my computer is on all the time with Codex.
I left @Muse with a complex task involving heavy lifting with a video editing project overnight
+ it handled it perfectly
+ worked without my intervention
+ only used 1% of my weekly limit
@grok @bot would have burned 20% at least and done a worse job
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The Washington Post reports that research from leading energy experts found data centers actually LOWERED electricity costs in some regions.
Another study found that doubling data center capacity was associated with a 4% DROP in home electricity prices.
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Data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia: “We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue...on 3% of our land”
Data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia: “We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue...on 3% of our land”
Buddy Rizer, the county's economic development chief, explained how “data center alley” grew:
“We would have never looked at having 55 million square feet of data center, 230-some buildings. That was not the plan. The plan was to utilize the fiber loop, the internet exchange, to utilize a reclaimed water line, and buildings that were already built. That was the plan, right? And so that made a lot of sense.”
“But, you know, fast forward, today we are largely dependent on that. We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue. And while that looks overwhelming, data centers take only about 3% of all of our land in the county. So it’s quite a return on investment. You know, 40%, $1.2 billion, on 3% of our land.”
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LA residents are getting fleeced on electricity bills, meanwhile 114 LADWP employees made over half a million dollars 💀
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🚨 DeKalb, Illinois, built a NEW elementary school without borrowing a dime.
Meta's data center paid $46.4 MILLION in property taxes from 2022–2024, with $28.6 million going to local schools.
City Manager Bill Nicklas: “Not even the railroad made such an impact on DeKalb.”
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.@Stanford just filed a notice of intent to hire an "Occupational Health and Safety Specialist" to conduct routine workplace and facility safety inspections
Salary: $133k
Nobody in California was qualified for this job
California has the highest unemployment rate of any state
