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Trump: "I have been asked by the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to hold off on our planned Military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow, in that serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond. This Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!"

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@TheOpeningMove1 @ChatGPTapp such an ai tweet. at least try to format or potentially have an original thought
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@thirdpairdemon @simongerman600 Between income and property taxes, my wife and I paid more than 40% of our income to the government last year.
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If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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@BoringBiz_ They’ll be in high demand. This empowers computer science majors.
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@Cat5SMASHICANE Prettttyyyyyy sure Mickey Morandini had an unassisted triple play in the 90’s.
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Final #Jeopardy category is Films of the 1990s.
My #JeopardyBlindGuess is Titanic. (although I am thinking it might not even be the film title...)
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Final Jeopardy category is U.S. Lakes.
I don't know a lot about lakes. My #JeopardyBlindGuess is Lake Erie (because it's one of the only ones I know.)
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Final Jeopardy category is World History.
This is a very broad category. My #JeopardyBlindGuess is the creation of the railroad.
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@JeopardyGuesser I always go with Samuel Beckett, because I know fuck-all about playwrights.
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Final Jeopardy category is Plays & Playwrights.
I am going to #JeopardyBlindGuess 12 Angry Men.
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@anishmoonka One wonders what the environmental impact of warming the ocean would be
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Peter Thiel just put $140 million into a startup that wants to run AI inside giant steel orbs floating in the ocean. Almost half of America's AI data centers planned for this year have already been cancelled or delayed. The grid cannot handle them.
A single big AI data center uses as much electricity as a small city, around the clock. America was not wired for that. In America's biggest power market, which stretches from New Jersey to Illinois, the cost of reserving future power has jumped from $29 to $329 in two years. That is more than ten times higher. And if you order one of the giant transformers a data center needs to plug into the grid, you now wait up to four years to get it.
So a small Oregon company called Panthalassa raised the cash. Their hardware looks like a giant steel orb floating on the surface, with the rest of the body extending 80 meters down into deep water. Waves push water through internal channels to spin a turbine, and the electricity runs AI chips right there on the platform. Answers travel back to land by satellite. The company is now worth roughly $1 billion. Backers include John Doerr (an early Google and Amazon investor), Marc Benioff (Salesforce's founder), and Peter Thiel's own venture firm Founders Fund.
The second problem ocean-AI solves is heat. AI chips run scorching. Cooling them on land is so thirsty that a large data center drinks 5 million gallons of water a day, the same as a town of 50,000 people. Microsoft already proved the ocean fixes this. A few years back they sealed 864 servers inside a steel tube and sank it off the coast of Scotland. The cold seawater cooled them for free. They used zero water from any town, and the servers had 8 times fewer breakdowns than the same machines on land.
There is also nobody to argue with out at sea. Just last week, two companies pulled their plans to build data centers in Seattle because locals fought back. Those facilities alone would have eaten about a third of the city's daily power.
Of course, this could still fail. Saltwater eats steel. Big storms break things. Earlier wave-power companies have burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and never made it to commercial scale. Panthalassa's first real ocean test has not happened yet. Paying customers are not promised until 2027.
But the math has flipped. If grid power costs ten times what it did, the transformer arrives in four years, and the neighbors will not let you build, then floating computers in the open ocean stops looking ridiculous and starts looking like the only door still open.
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Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir and PayPal, is leading a $140mn investment in a US start-up that plans to use wave energy to fuel giant fleets of floating data centres. ft.trib.al/BxRK2rJ
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@Breaking911 Pretty sure the only healthy reaction to this is… so happy for her!
Some of ya need to examine your inner self.
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@amazing_physics You just cost the simulation server so much rendering…
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