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I’ve been pacing my output here (for the good of humanity naturally), but am now back in the saddle. Consider yourselves warned.
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BREAKING: Meta Announces Facebook and Instagram Rationing in New York State Due to Data Center Moratorium
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Actual Data about Data Centers, This is Your Community with a Data Center, Data about the actual impact of data centers, Wherever Will We Put Data Centers?, Good News for Nuclear Power, Bad News for Data Centers, You Can’t Blame Data Centers in Seattle for Our Skyrocketing Electricity Prices, Release the (Electrical) Scapegoat!
The City of Seattle Responds to “Don’t Be Cleveland”
More coming soon on the very existential question of whether any level of government in Washington State can get their act together.
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A Warning to Seattle: Don’t Become the Next Cleveland, Seattle City Light: “Run to Failure”, Talking Cleveland on KIRO, Previous KIRO Appearance, Governor’s new economic council snubs startups, forgets AI, Hello Cleveland: The Podcast, Hello Cleveland!, Don’t Be Seattle: Taxing Jobs Results in Fewer Jobs, Don’t Be Cleveland: Gabe Newell Says Bye Bob, Don’t Be Seattle: World Cup Edition, Don’t Be Cleveland: Rich Barton Says Bye Bob, Don’t Be Cleveland: Janicki Industries Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Seattle Mayor Says Bye, Don’t be Cleveland: Snap Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Howard Schultz Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Starbucks Says “Bye Bob”, Don’t be Cleveland: Amazon’s Exit, Don’t be Cleveland: Meta, Oracle, and Others Say “Bye Bob” (Ferguson)
News
Never Take a Dependency on Crazy Mark: Here’s Your Chance
I will need to dramatically upgrade my web site storage to fully explore the long and glorious history of Meta platform rug pulls.
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Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail (Stratechery): “There simply is no world in which Meta is going to be an effective enterprise company, at least not in the next decade at a minimum (look at how long it took Google!)”, A Sketch of Meta as an Enterprise AI Company (The Diff)
Anachronism Watch: The Seattle Times
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The Seattle Times’ entire strategy is to return to their glory years of the mid 20th century, saving them from having to figure out a 21st century business model. Yet 21st century realities keep intruding.
A suggestion: maybe promise to only report, write and edit stories with a quill pen?
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Quick(er) Hits
OpenAI on cutting off Cursor: “We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts.”
Tim O’Brien on Pace Fixing: an antitrust perspective.
Sad: The End of Private Equity’s Leveraged Buyout Era Is Nigh. Investors eventually demand cash.
Venmo has ceased to be a reliable payment mechanism. Too many inscrutable “Your payment can’t be completed right now” errors with no support. Zelle of course is an oligopoly of banks whose service and customer service are even worse.