Thursday, November 12, 2026

Today's news and jokes







Data centers are taking over Malaysia: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/b...

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— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM

I literally screamed when i got to the end of @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social's piece on jet engines being taken from boneyards and used as turbines for AI. AFTER ALL THAT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO SOFIA?!?!

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— Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
(“Just a few years ago, a traditional data center would have been like, ‘Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous.’”)

Bluesky is the text-based website for political obsessives who can’t read and don’t care about how anything works.

— Felonious Monk (@alexqgb.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Another write-up

The idea is that the sea lice are mostly transparent and sustain damage whereas mirrored scales protect the salmon. In 2014 they were using an 8 W 532 nm laser which is honestly less than I’d expect. I’ve seen conflicting data on how much it reduces lice in practice! optics.org/news/laser-t...

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— Janelle Shane (@janelleshane.com) November 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM

i dont think there's been a historic fuck up this bad since the 2011 PSN outage (it might even be more significant in terms of financial damages and outage than PSN was at this rate) and we don't even know the extensive of the full damage yet. it's insane. there should really be coverage about this

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— CHI XU (@meltingcomet.com) November 10, 2026 at 10:07 AM
There's a really long video where they're doing this on Seinfeld's answering machine
@daniellelebster showering outside this week! #msu #msuoutage #msuhotwater #michiganstateuniversity #northneighborhood ♬ Epic ahh sound - Screaming Steve








@mayavegs He also barks the whole time so they know he’s coming 🥹🐶#dog #coyotes #fyp ♬ original sound - Maya Vega




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