

Patrick Carr
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@patrickcarr_
Former sports writer | Public transit stan | Opinions are my own



You are not a bona fide sports writer until you (a) have been locked in a stadium, and (b) have filed a story from a McDonald’s parking lot using the WiFi after it has closed. (Bonus veterans points for using couplers in a phone both for a TRS-80.)



Breaking News: Tina Peters, a 2020 election denier convicted in a voting machine plot, was given clemency by Colorado’s Democratic governor. nyti.ms/4tDBIwC

One of the worst parts of COVID was watching Americans surrender their God-given freedoms to bureaucrats who were wrong about everything.

Washington Post carefully explains that many of the loudest claims against data centers are "badly overstated" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

He can never wear the shirt again after this season. Not even in a legend's game


Florian Wirtz has been taking antibiotics for illness and is still a doubt for Liverpool's trip to Aston Villa.

42' - Goal for Aston Villa. Scored by Morgan Rogers. [1-0] #AVLLIV


Fox News crew in Beijing got ticketed by CCP surveillance cameras after illegally parking for just two minutes.


What’s going on with Kevin O’Leary’s data center project in Canada?deseret.com/business/2026/…

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers. Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…


Per @sophiehurwitz's piece 3 weeks ago when Gov. Mills vetoed Maine's datacenter moratorium - A reminder that techno-optimists will provide politicians with the thinnest excuses to do what they want. 100 fictional jobs > datacenter buildout all over beautiful Maine