Nohn Jeumann

“An Illinois city just approved 14 data centers after hearing six straight hours of people begging them not to.” Residents packed the City Council meeting to oppose the project. Public comment went on for hours. In the end, officials unanimously voted yes.

Renewables are now the cheapest form of energy in electricity generation. People who claim otherwise still think it’s 2010…

Saw this and thought about recursive optimal square packing as a city layout. Hard to do the crazy ones (like 17) but here is a 5,10,5 and 10,5,10 square packed layout with leaf nodes colored (for imagining city blocks). Imagine white space would be parks or something

for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup

A newly opened basketball court in Beijing, transformed from the former cooling towers of Capital Steel and Iron Company.

microblog weather report is that twitter and bsky now feel the same 'size' in terms of activity/notifications/active topics, to me, but unfortunately more due to twitter shrinking than bsky growing (though it is). 2 is better than 1 so don't delete your twitter account but...