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@ReallyRadley

~Right-libertarian, but I like to tweet about sci-fi, fantasy, wordplay, language, and tech. I don't hide my beliefs, but I'm open-minded.

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ℝeallyℝadley
ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legends. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten… Thank you, friends.
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That COMICBOOK Guy@Culture3ase·
Which animated TV show is better? Invincible Batman
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I agree with the majority that, either way, you were assigning people based on race and that that is both unconstitutional and wrong.
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
What's interesting to me about racial gerrymandering is that there were two ways to violate it: - If you split protected minority voters too broadly, you were "cracking" to reduce their influence. - If you put too many in a district, you were "packing" to reduce their influence.
Sean Davis@seanmdav

BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that racial gerrymandering, which has been used to create majority black congressional districts for decades, is unconstitutional. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the majority.

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BG (“Beege”) Burton@QuantumMagick·
@ReallyRadley You always say the nicest things. 🥰 Thanks. Good to see you again. Maybe I’m wrestling my tl into shape.
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
@QuantumMagick Before I met Mrs, I practically dragged a beautiful Tri-Delt on whom I had a crush thru an economics class. Her interest in me was purely academic. My interest was perhaps less cerebral. 🤪
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BG (“Beege”) Burton
BG (“Beege”) Burton@QuantumMagick·
Last night a bat did that “I’m definitely in control of this flight” zigzag right past my head. Fun fact: that chaos is precision. They’re reading the world in echoes—basically painting a 3D map with sound, midair, at speed. What’s your best bat encounter?
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
A friend requested bat stories. What are some of your favorite bat encounters? BONUS bat story: on our honeymoon in Mexico, Mrs and I visited Chichén Itzá. The temps were HOT so I'd dowsed a hotel towel in water and tucked one end under my cap to cool my neck. Inside one ancient ruin, we encountered some surprisingly large bats and I backed out slowly only to feel something settle on my back. I leapt and shrieked like a lil girl "There's a bat on me!" only for another tourist and Mrs to fetch my dislodged towel and taunt me about the "giant albino bat" as they chased me around the grounds. @QuantumMagick
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When I was in college, our fraternity had a big party and the house was packed with drunk undergrads, blaring music out our open windows. A bat mistakenly flew in and startled some visiting co-eds whom a brother attempted to rescue by swinging a broom. It ended badly when the broom handle missed the bat, but hit a poor girl's noggin. (Otherwise, it was a fun party…as far as I recall.)

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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
@QuantumMagick (If it was unclear from context: I was drunk on this night, but less drunk than the dude who swung a broom and ruined that girl's night. The bat, however, left unharmed.)
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
When I was in college, our fraternity had a big party and the house was packed with drunk undergrads, blaring music out our open windows. A bat mistakenly flew in and startled some visiting co-eds whom a brother attempted to rescue by swinging a broom. It ended badly when the broom handle missed the bat, but hit a poor girl's noggin. (Otherwise, it was a fun party…as far as I recall.)
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Paul Rees. ex Rucksack.
Paul Rees. ex Rucksack.@HannahIamthest1·
A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
not to stir up controversy but im pretty sure jesus would have pressed the blue button
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
@QuantumMagick @sama That's what I thought. I just happen to live in one of the most fresh-water-rich areas of the country so I don't understand why locals complain about it. (I would if I lived in, say, California's Central Valley or near Las Vegas.)
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BG (“Beege”) Burton
BG (“Beege”) Burton@QuantumMagick·
AI models don’t “drink” water — data centers do, mostly for cooling. GPUs/servers generate massive heat. Many use evaporative cooling towers: warm water absorbs the heat, then evaporates into vapor to release it. That evaporated water (~70-80% of what’s used) is “consumed” — it’s gone from the local area until the vapor eventually rains out elsewhere (often far away). The rest is treated wastewater. One ChatGPT-style query ≈ 0.5 liter total (direct + power plant indirect). It adds up at scale. Total Earth water is fixed — the cycle just relocates it. The issue is local stress in dry regions. Industry is shifting to air/closed-loop/immersion cooling to cut this. Real concern, but engineering fix in progress.
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ℝeallyℝadley@ReallyRadley·
I keep hearing this idea that “AI is consuming our water”. What is meant by this? How is water consumed? Where does it go? Isn’t the amount of water on Earth roughly fixed? (Is AI making it salty? Mixing it with sewage? Hydrolyzing it? Is @sama getting bloated?)
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