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Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States.
PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million.
Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp.
In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono?
More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
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Hey if this is your first time watching commanders football implode halfway through a season, just trust me and stick around, this game is about to get alot worse
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Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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Indiana & Michigan Power (I&M) has asked Indiana's state gov if they can lower rates because they're making so much money from data centers and they want to pass savings on
If the state approves, customers will see $100 cut from annual bills, which they'll freeze for three years
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I am losing my f—-ing mind
If these data centers are so essential to our national security and economy and have such amazing benefits they should prove it by building them in the richest zip codes in America first.
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The richest county in the US by median household income is Loudoun County, Virginia, which is also home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, often referred to as "Data Center Alley." bbc.com/news/articles/… loudoun.gov/6188/Data-Cent…
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Peter Maher's final Flames goal call was Johnny Gaudreau's first NHL goal.
Thinking about them both today with a heavy heart. Two icons in this city that are greatly missed.
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This is an excellent video: great explanations, excellent production, and worth 5 minutes of your time 👇
Most Albertans have probably seen the headlines about companies wanting to invest in and build AI data centres in Alberta.
Many Albertans are excited about that, but others have legitimate questions.
Here are the answers to 6 common questions on everything from power to water to land use and how these investments will financially benefit our province now and in the future.
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Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."
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One nation in all of human history staked its existence on a single blazing truth: every soul enters this world crowned in God-given rights beyond the reach of any earthly power. 250 years later, America remains the boldest wager ever placed on human liberty. ❤️ 🤍 💙
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Reminder that there are two types of anti-data center activists:
- Supporters of the Chinese Communist Party
- Stooges of the Chinese Communist Party
Anti-data center activism helps America's enemies and facilitates America's downfall.
NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US.
Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects.
In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout.
Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition.
This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.
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- 45yo patient complains of difficulty breathing
- X-ray and ECG don't point to clear diagnosis
- he's sent home
- AI-enabled scan detects severe heart damage
- follow-up echocardiogram shows severe heart problems
- doctors perform heart transplant, conclude he might have died suddenly
Great story.
Unlike many promises in AI and medicine—many of which are either over-sold or hard to evaluate, bc AI-enabled drug discoveries can take years for clinical trials to establish efficacy—AI-enhanced diagnostics feels like more of a right-here/right-now phenomenon. The success stories are rare enough for now that most of them get written up in Nature and the NYT, but I think this is a great early frontier for AI and medicine, despite the risks of false positives, over-scanning, over-spending on safe edge cases, etc
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Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf gives his stick to a 10-year-old superfan after the game and the kid can’t hold back his emotions.
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this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
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Alberta is heartbroken at the loss of three young hockey players, JJ Wright, Cameron Casorso and Caden Fine, who tragically lost their lives while travelling to practice with the Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey club.
My deepest condolences are with their families, teammates, coaches, billet families and the entire community of Stavely and surrounding area as they grieve this unimaginable loss. The whole Alberta hockey family is standing with you in sorrow and in prayer.
Thank you as well to the first responders and medical teams who rushed to help. In the days ahead, I know Albertans will wrap these families and this team in love and support as they navigate a pain no one should ever have to bear.
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Celebrities talked nonstop about Gaza for months. Tonight at the Grammys, not a single one spoke up for the Iranian people—after the Islamic Republic massacred over 36,000 in less than 48 hours.
Weird.
Creativity in marketing has been in a bad place for a while but @Wealthsimple’s current campaign is so thoroughly illegible it makes me want to close my account.
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Remember this the next time people gaslight you with anti data center crap. Speaking of gaslighting: Canada flares off 7 GW of natural gas as a waste product of mining each year- more power than all the LLM training clusters use combined. Let’s build data centers in Alberta.
