gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026@futurebird whatever happened to citing your sources? 000 0
Reposted by gentlegardenermyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Don't use an LLM to make stuff. People will be able to tell however, they won't want to say anything to you because it could come off as rude. "Look at this song I made!" "Oh that's really neat, I didn't know you made music. Wow." It's a new awkward thing we have to have in our lives now […]sauropods.winOriginal post on sauropods.win 5816 16
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Map and #datacenters tracker by energy use www.electricchoice.com/datacenterselectricchoice.comUS Data Center Power Consumption by State (2026)How many data centers are in the U.S.? Over 2,100 tracked facilities consume 176 TWh annually (4.4% of U.S. power). 620+ more under construction or planned. Compare all 50 states by power use and facility count. 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026This is what peak #datacentre looks like. “Loudoun County alone has more data centres than Australia” #virginia www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/…smh.com.auThis is the data centre capital of the world. They’re starting to regret itAbout 70 per cent of the world’s internet traffic flows through this county in Virginia. Whether it is a road map for Australia, or a cautionary tale, depends on who you ask. 024 4
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026'a result of this magnitude could take a year or two to be revealed and digested via presentations and a formally published paper, said Javier Gomez-Serrano, an expert on Navier-Stokes at Brown University. “What I don’t think the mathematical community will accept is the write-up as it is,” […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 100 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. wapo.st/4h3hdVH 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026There was not one air strike throughout the day yesterday (by Saudi support forces), although there were minute-by-minute updates,” the regional source added. “It’s a Saudi-American f**k up of epic proportions.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/middleeast/y…cnn.com‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast | CNNDesperate pleas for air cover from Yemeni generals started coming mid-morning on Thursday. As the Houthis advanced, backup support from Saudi Arabia was nowhere in sight. 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026“There’s a new goading quality to the talking points of the super-rich – explicit eugenicism and Islamophobia, raw delight in the prospect of AI wiping out our jobs. It almost feels as though they’re daring us to rebel, just so that they can prove that rebellion is fruitless […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026www.salon.com/2026/09/02/data-cente…salon.com 201 2
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026www.bbc.com/future/article/20260820… 000 0
Reposted by gentlegardenerVee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026Holocaust survivors were asked, “What could have stopped Hitler?" They ALL gave the same answer: ORDINARY PEOPLE. 1. “We waited for it to get bad enough.” 2. “We underestimated how fast normal could change.” 3. “We trusted respectable people to draw the line […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 1056 56
Reposted by gentlegardenerChuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 1452 52
Reposted by gentlegardenerjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026If a grocery store is doing dynamic pricing and you just sit there with a flipper zero recording whatever sub GHz or IR signal they are broadcasting to flip them, take the lowest real displayed price, replay it with idk something like this, is that illegalgithub.comGitHub - i12bp8/TagTinker: Flipper Zero app for ESL research using IR. All based on https://www.furrtek.org/?a=eslFlipper Zero app for ESL research using IR. All based on https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl - i12bp8/TagTinker 0113 13
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026F u #googlemaps For murricans, Lake ego, lake taco, lake kissamyassa Lake Ontario before either was a country Google, Make Trump a country of one and his map can say one of the above. For the rest of us, leave it! […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 010 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026no one saw this #ai #bigtech backlash coming ---except of course the #nobodysonMastodon @willbunch www.inquirer.com/opinion/voter-ange…inquirer.comFighting AI and Flock, today’s Luddites are the revolutionaries we need | Will BunchIn an existential crisis for the American Experiment, public rage against Big Tech is a political earthquake no one saw coming. 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026The farm is now fully kitted out to welcome visitors..and…thanks to the growth of #agritourism in Scotland, has started welcoming visitors from all over the world. The pair were one of the founding members of group Scottish Agritourism, which hosted the Global Agritourism conference at P&J Live […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026The difficult truth about Jason Arday www.ft.com/content/5f927594-03a1-46… 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026#jersey sketchbook #art www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05qe694p…bbc.comJersey sketchbook reveals 'invaluable' island recordThe sketchbook contains 80 pencil sketches and watercolours showing the coastline and countryside. 021 2
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026#lunasa #summergathering harvest #festival tonight #universalHall to green this amazing venue and resource to the entire north of #scotland for the next generations! www.justgiving.com/campaign/loveuni…justgiving.comLet's Secure the Future of the Universal Hall!A hand-built home for music, creativity and connection. Help write its next chapter. 011 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026#scotland this gathering is for you! Summer gathering in #UniversalHall #ecovillageFindhorn 730pm BST and livestream. Proceeds support the greening of this iconic venue which is now #communityowned tickets here: events.humanitix.com/summer-gatheri… 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026“When I told my #Anthropic interlocutors that I tried to avoid contact with #LLMs, their response was bemused: perhaps I just hadn’t spent enough time with them? But there was a light in their eyes when they talked about #Claude. It dawned on me that they were under a kind of enchantment. Like […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026Scotland’s #communities have been…delivering…vision for how #land can be used for the better. Communities…across Scotland…take ownership of the land…developed innovative and sustainable community enterprises…transformed their local areas….supported…by the Scottish Parliament, including three […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026In the UK, an estimated 90 percent of #NHS hospital estates…largely composed of older buildings lacking centralized air…are at risk of overheating…even in countries where hospitals have centralized air-cooling, these systems cannot cope... …June #heatwave: As hospital ward temperatures rose […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026Out of it for a bit - too busy for any social media punctuated by a #microburst #tornado event Friday evening. 5 minutes 8/10” rainfall serious tree damage. One of our big oaks fell west to east uphill onto a power line , which held enough to snap 2 poles […] [Original post on mastodon.scot] 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026#democracy #maryland Larry Hogan hoped Republicans would ‘get back to sanity.’ He’s lost faith. wapo.st/4nBUGCz 002 2
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026#nopalantir #refugees www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxd…bbc.comUK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee systemComments 002 2
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026#nokings #rural #democracy. that too. it has been a week theme song #tompetty #iwontbackdown 095 9
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026#rural #virginia activism #deepdemocracy #yesRedistricting 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026central #virginia #rural activism 1000 citizen turnout in person and online for@#valleylink #dominionenergyinc high voltage line for #datacenters #datacentres 000 0
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026‘And the fact that he was killed on city streets — as an employee of the U.S. government, by the U.S. government — it’s blowing my mind.”’ #veteransadministration #va #ice ICU nurse fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis cared for veterans wapo.st/3Z0RNzB 013 3
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026Trump cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says wapo.st/4qjwsxj 001 1
gentlegardener @gentlegardener.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026@walterolson.bsky.social I was listening to WTOP doing my FedEx run to #charlottesville because of the #USPS dysfunction and #pandemic. I pulled over in front of #UVA law school to listen. My faith that the Capitol police could hold them back was destroyed. Spent next few weeks contributing to […]mastodon.scotOriginal post on mastodon.scot 010 1
Reposted by gentlegardenerJohn Altringham @johnaltringham.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026On this bright and frosty morning - an Edinburgh panorama in walnut ink. 003 3