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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • These numbers don’t make any sense to me, as the hed is about buying lots of chips, and the body is about power use. No matter how you slice it, $8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment … if that’s chip-inclusive, that’s another story.

    Data center scale is usually given in terms of power consumption, not computing power. The trillion dollars is meant to buy enough hardware to suck up 20GW of power, and probably none of the money will go towards power generation.





  • USA Today’s post is more detailed, and it’s clearer about this being temporary:

    The classic coffee brand introduced the limited-edition Maxwell Apartment canister on National Coffee Day, Sept. 29, and a few more are still up for grabs on Amazon.

    Customers can still purchase the regular Maxwell House coffee canisters online and at grocery stores. Maxwell Apartment is a part of a limited-time marketing campaign.





  • The TV thing has been resolved:

    But the investigators confirmed that the complaint was true; a TV in the office did in fact show the images in question, including the “chiropractic table.” The naked women did not come from anyone’s secret stash of pornography, however; they came from Jackie Chan’s 1985 film The Protector.

    But why was The Protector showing on a TV in a state office building at all? Investigators came to find out that the Samsung smart TV in question—recently installed in the office—had been set up in such a way that it defaulted to showing Samsung TV Plus Channel 1204, the “Movie Hub Action.” (You can see Samsung’s full list of TV Plus streaming channels here.) And at the time of the state board meeting, Movie Hub Action was streaming The Protector. How and why the TV was turned on or switched to this streaming channel isn’t clear, but the whole thing appears to be an absolutely bizarre accident.










  • You left out why this came up:

    Shreveport — the most populous city in the northwest Louisiana district that Johnson has represented since 2017 — has a higher crime rate than D.C. and outpaces the state of Louisiana as a whole, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics. CrimeRate, an independent analysis of crime statistics, deems Shreveport’s violent crime as being “higher versus other cities of the same size.”

    “FBI statistics, actually, [show] violent crime per 100,000 residents higher in Shreveport last year than Washington, D.C.,” CNN’s John Berman told Johnson on air Friday.

    If DC’s crime is bad enough to require the National Guard, why not Shreveport?