Tag: data centers
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26
Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. [caption id="attachment_7376" align="aligncenter" width="1028"] I took this photo at the corner of State and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights on the evening of August...
Trump’s Bumbling, Racist Anti-China Protectionism Extends To Data Centers
The Trump administration's anti-Chinese protectionism is routinely a disastrous, xenophobic mess that mostly just injects chaos, cronyism, and higher prices into U.S. tech markets under the pretense of protecting privacy and national security. All propped up by bumbling Democrats and a corporate press incapable of highlighting that the emperor is buck-ass naked. Four years of...
Howard, Tuskegee and a Black Media Partnership
The Howard University President speaks out, Tuskegee students sound off, and more news from Black media.
nimby, et c
Across the US, calls to halt data center construction have multiplied, as Americans grow increasingly concerned about risks of pollution, rising energy costs, and diminishing water supplies. At the federal level, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have introduced legislation seeking a possible nationwide construction ban. But Republicans are seemingly unlikely to embrace that...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-15-26
Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I published links and commentary to enjoy in Saturday's Newsletter Leaf Journal 284. [caption id="attachment_5942" align="aligncenter" width="969"] My photograph of the intersection of Carroll and Bond...
The Two-Tiered Society
In this blog I am going to respond to a paper that I find really interesting authored by Arvind Narayan called “What If Algorithmic Fairness Is a Category Error?”