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Friday, 17th July 2026

Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use:

Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!

Google used 10.9 billion gallons in 2025, so about 30 million gallons per day.

The Coachella Valley has 120 golf courses each using ~800 acre-feet per year, which is ~750,000 gallons per day.

So Google buying up 40 of those courses (1/3) should do the trick.

# 2:58 am / ai, ai-energy-usage

Sighting 7:59 PM – 8:08 PM — Pacific Harbor Seal, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA
Pacific Harbor Seal
Pacific Harbor Seal
California Brown Pelican
California Brown Pelican

I got frustrated reading yet another article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable 5 vibe code up this app for highlighting ten common patterns that show up in that sort of writing.

Screenshot of a text-analysis web tool. Top summary row: "2 matches", "1 flagged sentence", "0 chain items". Below, a collapsed "▶ Patterns · all 11 on" panel, then a URL input reading "https://example.com/article — fetched via r.jina.ai" with a "Load URL" button. A text area contains "That loss is real and it's worth naming". Below are "Load example" and "Clear" buttons and a checked checkbox "Show just the highlights". A "Highlighted text" section shows "That loss is real and it's worth naming" with "That loss" in pale yellow (flagged sentence) and "is real and" plus "'s worth naming" in darker yellow (pattern match). Legend: "flagged sentence", "pattern match", "3 chain item count". "Matches" section: 1. "is real and" — "Is real … and / not"; 2. "'s worth naming" — "Worth naming".

Is there something I can actually help you with today?

Kimi K3, after refusing to leak its system prompt

# 1:43 pm / ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-personality, kimi

Thursday, 16th July 2026

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