Steve Brecher

@CathyYoung63 If there are 50 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.: that is one of every seven people in the country.

Imagine insisting that the right hasn't changed since 2008 under a GOP administration whose officials talk about deporting approximately 1/3 of the American population & which prepares to pay millions to convicted rioters who tried to overturn an election

@t3nsor @NinaPanickssery There is a difference between not "getting" or understanding how (very) intelligent people can believe that the claims of their religion are true, and disrespecting them as people.

@NinaPanickssery There's a limit to how much we can disrespect religious people before we'll start getting in trouble with our employers.

I just don’t get religion or religious people. I don’t understand why religious belief is treated with respect by atheists. The whole things strikes me as something between a stupid LARP and mass psychosis. And smart otherwise rational people get affected too. Unsettling.

@TimothySandefur Is the video and audio quality awful or do I have a local tech issue?

Still my favorite Michael Jackson video. youtu.be/4DiRP9QuGyA?si…

@Sykodelic_ @cremieuxrecueil ApoB is the best marker for the various flavors of LDL-C, but ApoB and LDL-C or, especially, LDL-P are highly correlated.

@cremieuxrecueil Insulin sensitivity and APOB is much more important than LDL though.

Eli Lilly has done it. They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol. That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

@cremieuxrecueil @palladiummag "Sneak peak" -- is that a furtive orgasm?

Sneak peak of a small handful of the evidence from my forthcoming manuscript (summary coming to @palladiummag!) on how there's A LOT of quantitative evidence for the European Dark Ages. There are so many more graphs than these ^^

@natolambert So there's pre-training and post-training. Where's the training?

I heard people needed clarification that my book was a post-training book posttrainingbook.com

@BradyGWilson @drgarymcgowan @jaacq1 Who are these pharma shills? Prescribing doctors? Who pays them? Generic drug manufacturers? What evidence is there?

@drgarymcgowan @jaacq1 The world's full of medical pharma shills profiting from pushing statins. Marion Holman is their worst enemy... a truth teller!

There are people here telling patients with severe CAD (w/previous MI & stroke) to avoid statins. This goes well beyond the questioning of LDL in absence of ASCVD or other risk factors. Shameful stuff. People like @jaacq1 are being directly harmed.

@PaulMSherman I believe the hint was sufficient for me, but I'll refrain from elaborating.

Hint: Try it with one blue-eyed person, then with two.

This is very clever. Give it a shot. If you can’t solve it, I’ll give hints in the replies.

@MachineShedFred @kwasny007 @RepAOC Golf courses in Oregon use 16-50 million gallons/year, so that Meta DC was getting close in 2022. I'd guess few if any new DCs use or will use open loops to cool the servers. AFAIK the typical one today uses closed-loop + external water for evaporative cooling.

@kwasny007 @RepAOC Yes, because every data center is built exactly the same for the last 40 years. You don't know what you are talking about. Meta's Prineville DC in Oregon uses muni water supply and is an open loop:

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Today I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted.

@realhumansfirst No building on earth "covers" 40,000 acres. Most of the purchased land not used for the data center building(s) would either remain empty or be used for solar panels.

Utah just approved one of the biggest AI data center projects in America — despite massive public outrage. The “Stratos Project,” backed by Kevin O’Leary, would cover nearly 40,000 acres… over 2.5x the size of Manhattan. It’s expected to consume 9GW of power — almost DOUBLE Utah’s projected peak electricity demand — and could increase the state’s carbon emissions by 55%. Hundreds of residents showed up to oppose it. They begged commissioners to reconsider. They approved it anyway. Who is this really being built for? Americans deserve transparency, accountability, and a real voice in decisions that will permanently reshape their communities. Join the fight at humansfirst.com Like, share, and follow for updates on AI policy, national security, and emerging technology.

@NiceToBeHere2u @Ratio_Disputati @realhumansfirst How are data centers causing water pollution? The typical cooling architecture is: Water/coolant circulates through servers or heat exchangers in a closed loop. Heat transfers to another loop. Cooling towers evaporate water to dump heat into the atmosphere.

@Ratio_Disputati @realhumansfirst Better phrosing might be... declarative statements thus far are inaccurate, untrue. Lying is what Trump does best so being called a liar may not apply here. The people stating 40,000 acres et al didn't get the info, probably played. Data centers are causing water/air pollution

@JeffBezos Unrealized capital gains are not income, and can't legally be subject to the income tax. They are wealth, and their taxation would require a wealth tax. Whether or not that tax would be fair or efficient, it would require a constitutional amendment.

Please do a quick read of this. It’s short, well written, and will remove a bit of wool from over your eyes.

@creatrix_ttv I assume the presumption is that "unlimited" financial support changes politician behavior because the politician, once elected, feels indebted. But that begs the question of whether the funding changed the election result.

@SteveBrecher There's a strong correlation, but it's not guaranteed of course. Does that even matter though? For me the issue is rent-seeking and political incentives, because unlimited financial leverage changes who politicians are incentivized to listen to and what they prioritize.

Citizens United v. FEC & Speechnow v. FEC are a huge part of the problem when it comes to politics in the US, but no one is ready for that conversation. Money is NOT speech, it's a resource. I think libertarians have historically been wrong on this issue, and this is one of the few times I have disagreed with Ron Paul. The birth of the Super PAC was one of the worst things to happen to modern political incentives. It’s a mechanism of political capture that encourages rent-seeking and turns elections into proxy wars between donor networks. This only fuels socialist thinking because when people see that political weight increasingly depends on whoever has the most financial resources, they start to believe the system is rigged against them. And on this issue, they’re not wrong. When wealthy donors can contribute unlimited sums of money to a politican in a state they don't even LIVE in, who is the politician REALLY representing? Not their constituents. This is political coercion. This is cronyism. And until conservatives and libertarians get their heads out of their asses on this particular issue, we will keep watching politics in this country become more and more corrupt.

@HighPrairieMama @RenoPolice Heh. I was guessing "Nevada Dept. of Water", envisioning a flooded intersection. But as soon as I saw your reply I realized my guess was wrong.

@RenoPolice Nevada department of wildlife

Please stay out of the area of keystone Avenue and 4th Street. Officers are assisting NDOW on an active scene.

@IdahoDaveD @US_Stormwatch ChatGPT says... Typical architecture: Water/coolant circulates through servers or heat exchangers in a closed loop. Heat transfers to another loop. Cooling towers evaporate water to dump heat into the atmosphere. That final stage is where large water consumption often occurs.

But really, think about your insane stat of the day. Data centers use water in a closed, centralized cooling system, so very little water is lost to evaporation. Almond farming spreads water across large fields, where evaporation and runoff are unavoidable. The scale and inefficiency of open‑air irrigation make almond water use dramatically higher by nature of the application.🙄

Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.

@IvonneRovira @IdahoDaveD @US_Stormwatch Shut down data centers used primarily for AI scaling, or all data centers? Shutting down all data centers would end the internet including, of course, X.

@IdahoDaveD @US_Stormwatch We do need luck. Kentucky over 30 data centers across 15 major operators, mostly in Louisville and Lexington. With luck, we can shut them down.

Yes. Wikipedia on the signers of the Constitution: Johnson reached the age of 92. Few, Franklin, Madison, Williamson, and Wythe lived into their eighties. Fifteen or sixteen (depending on Fitzsimmon's exact age) passed away in their eighth decade. 20 or 21 in their sixties. Eight lived into their fifties. Five lived only into their forties. Two of them (Hamilton and Spaight) were killed in duels.

@Greg651 @kcjohnson9 The whole bit about how life expectancy was half of what it is today is misleading, too, as it's highly skewed by high infant and child mortality.

Re the NYT essay below on 18-year terms for Supreme Court Justices, I have two thoughts. First, the "Framers couldn't have foreseen this" gets the point wrong. I don't think we have reason to believe the Framers couldn't have foreseen a Justice staying on the court for many decades. As far as I can tell, no one flipped out when Chief Justice Marshall was on the Court for over 34 years, from 1801 to 1835. What the Founders couldn't have foreseen is that the Court would be as powerful as it has become in the modern era. That's the problem, I think. More broadly, I'm a huge fan of 18-year terms for Justices, but just telling the NYT audience that it could be done by regular legislation is a disservice to readers. I know some people have made the argument that such reforms wouldn't require a constitutional amendment, but the argument is not a good one. As I see it, it's the kind of argument you make when you're deeply committed to an outcome and will take anything that sounds plausible. I get that this describes a non-zero number of influential people, but that doesn't improve it as an argument. Anyway, I realize this puts us in a cruddy position. Our Republic would be much healthier with 18 year terms for Justices, and yet we can't get there without a constitutional amendment that is, as a practical matter, out of reach. But I think that's where we are. nytimes.com/2026/05/19/opi…

@askmomaitv @jmhorp No Tahoe residents are losing electricity. Nevada Power says it will continue service until Liberty makes an agreement with a new source. @grok How much water does a large data center use, and are there are existing ones that have impacted residential water customers?

I'll type slow. The problem isn't that they will only create a few hundred jobs. The problem is they created MAYBE 20-50 jobs. That's it. The construction jobs are temporary. So for 20-50 jobs, you think it's worth ground heating, extreme water use that impacts residential customers and soaring electric rates. The vacant lot wasn't hurting anything, taxes were still paid on it. Data centers are a net negative for a community. Microsoft's data center in Quincy, Washington has 50 employees. Lake Tahoe: 49,000 residents losing 75% of their electricity so that Google, Apple, and Microsoft can run data centers that employ maybe 50 people each. They're displacing 49,000 people's power to create what? 60-150 jobs?

"But the data center will only create a few hundred jobs" How many jobs was the vacant lot creating?

@JuniorPartDeux @TimothySandefur @stephen_richer I don't retweet much, but on encountering your reply I retweeted the post.

@TimothySandefur @stephen_richer The people retweeting you belong in Guantánamo Bay. Be glad that all that’s happening is a slush fund for people who were wronged.

I was distinctly told, on April 6, 2025, by law perfessers way smarter than me, that this administration would be a libertarian rescue helicopter to save us from the flood. I'm beginning to doubt it.