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    Great!
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  • Building data centers

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    AxtremusA
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/climate/trump-federal-data-centers.html Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.
  • House for sale

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    @AndyD Very beautiful house and location. Isn't all that far from Glasgow--as a crow flies, but 3 hours one way due to waterways. $10.5K/month for 30 years. Yikes.
  • Whitefish numbers crashing

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  • The Finnish sand battery

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    @CHAS Cool.
  • McConnell

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    At least give him that cognitive test that Trump always says he aces.
  • Placebo sleep?

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    Not sure I should be surprised. I thought it's well established that sleep duration is not the same as sleep quality. There has got to be better comparisons than to sleep duration.
  • Gosh, I'm so relieved

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    He can afford them now
  • Check this New Yorker article out

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  • Real customer service isn't dead yet

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    That’s great!
  • Kim Philby, on the record

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  • Laughter is the best medicine

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  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    @AndyD Beautiful!
  • Mildly Interesting - People

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    The 2026 Fields Medal Link to video
  • Spent oyster shells

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    In New York harbor it’s about more than shells. Oyster farming has come back in a big way. . It’s partly a method of having oysters clean the water, but oysters were a significant food source here decades ago.
  • Best friends discover they are related

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    No real harm done as long as no genetically compromised offspring is conceived.
  • 100 days to midterms

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  • A bit of a drive

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    Very glad to hear that you dodged that bullet. Did you do anything fun or pleasurable while you were in Philadelphia? Big Al
  • Scandinavia, The Baltics, and Iceland - traveller insight?

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    @CHAS said: Hope you have a great time and that you post pictures on your return. We were going there until Bob has some trouble. I’m sorry to hear that. I hope at some point you can revisit that plan. And you remind me I need to write up an Italy post with photos. I’ll try to get that done this week!