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#affirmation : confirmation of anything established

- French: affirmation

- German: Bestätigung

- Italian: affermazione

- Portuguese: afirmação

- Spanish: afirmación

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Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.

It saw a 6 percent rise in planet-heating pollution last year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. As it expands data centers for AI, Amazon is moving further away from a goal it set in 2019 to reach net zero carbon emissions.

“One of the biggest challenges with scaling AI is increased energy demands for data centers,” Amazon’s sustainability report says.

Amazon’s Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout



Cresson Sanatorium and Prison in Lilly, Pennsylvania

This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.#insaneasylums #pennsylvania #prisons #haunted #section-Atlas





A tasty celebration of the tau neutrino

www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-tasty-celebration-of-the-tau-neutrino?utm_source=main_feed_click&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=main_feed&utm_content=click

On July 21, 2000, the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab announced the detection of tau neutrinos for the first time. Here are a few ideas for celebrating 25 years of the most elusive of elusive particles.



Opinion | If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair
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U.S. to Curtail Practice of Assessing Fairness of Foreign Elections (Wall Street Journal)

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Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

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Trump faces backlash as 69% believe Epstein details concealed, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)

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Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam

For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fixing…



Trump discussing drone 'mega deal' with Ukraine -- as US tech lags behind adversaries: 'The people of America need this technology' (New York Post)

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The House is poised to OK Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid (Associated Press)

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Ghost of Corporate Synergy.

Alamo Drafthouse, which is owned by Sony, is hosting a film series “inspired by” Ghost of Yōtei, a PlayStation video game made by Sucker Punch Productions, which is a Sony-owned studio. There’s even a custom popcorn bucket.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbMKLrT8hU



From Project Gutenberg:

The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

by Newell Dwight Hillis

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/17274