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> In June, the Justice Department intervened in an NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over dozens of gas turbines the company was running without air permits to power a data center it maintained in Tennessee. The department asked a federal judge to throw the case out, arguing that the NAACP “threatens American national, economic, and energy security.”

> To make the point, the government filed a sworn declaration from Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer. Stanley swore to the court that Grok was “a matter of paramount national security.”

Seriously, wow. Time to clean up our act.

samudrijanon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

https://www.kwtx.com/2026/09/18/waco-man-seeks-probation-the...

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/09/16/affidavit-man-pos...

samudrijanon What happened to the Snowden archive

Corporate Dems lose because they have become indistinguishable from their donor class and have failed to institute significant changes that would actually improve people’s lives. They are a captive opposition.

samudrijanon US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments

View looks great from up here. Any peanuts?

samudrijanon North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

Yeah, no.

samudrijanon Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

Security through obsolescence!

samudrijanon Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

Because data should be secure. Full stop.

samudrijanon Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here

Measles was eliminated in the US by 2020. Texas had an outbreak last year with 2289 confirmed cases. They’re up to 2900 cases this year. The right-wing readily laps up all the misinformation it spews.

samudrijanon Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco

Probably time to change the oil.

samudrijanon I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold

It depends on who writes the regulations. Today money writes the regs and people pay the price. Take money out of politics. But all three branches are captured. Anything that resembles returning power to the people is derided as socialism. So the result is power over the people.

samudrijanon Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

Looks the same? Should be fine.

samudrijanon PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

Take over Scotland and Wales?

samudrijanon PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

^^^ case in point.

samudrijanon PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

At what age does the homework kick in for kids growing up in Asia?

samudrijanon End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models

Differencing? wot?

samudrijanon Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke

Facebook/Meta happily hires GOP operatives and has done so for years.

samudrijanon Exit the Cave

Have you hit the end of the internet? I mostly have. This thread though is pretty decent.

samudrijanon Exit the Cave

We should strive for somewhat higher than sitting at the bar alone.