2026 sep 03

[rcjordan]

^two-fer:
UN report: The world is whiffing on its biggest climate goal | Vox
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/501812/the-world-is-whiffing-on-its-biggest-climate-goal

Heat Shuts Down Lake Shore Drive Bridge For Over 4 Hours, Causing 'Incredibly Hectic' Day Of Traffic
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/02/heat-shuts-lake-shore-drive-bridge-for-more-than-4-hours-causing-incredibly-hectic-day-of-traffic/
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Diesel prices are soaring as global supply tightens
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/diesel-prices-russia-iran-refining-supply-rcna595680

Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of US over crisis preparedness
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/netherlands-gold-transfer-us-canada-uk.html

What Neuroscience Says About Gut Feelings And Decision Making
https://www.forbes.com/sites/liendepau/2026/09/01/what-neuroscience-says-about-gut-feelings-and-bad-calls/

Engineers develop single-element speaker that beams audio to specific listeners
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/speaker-beams-audio-to-specific-listeners

City in Lehigh Valley ranked as most challenging place to live with asthma in continental US | Allentown Area | wfmz.com
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-county/allentown-area/city-in-lehigh-valley-ranked-as-most-challenging-place-to-live-with-asthma-in-continental/article_405fa6d2-3462-441a-af38-904f0a1695ad.html

[rcjordan]

^{Hadn't thought of this one. Agree.}

An N.H. housing authority put high-tech sensors in rentals. A lawsuit claims it's surveillance | WBUR News
https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/03/concord-new-hampshire-authority-aclu-lawsuit-minut-privacy

[rcjordan]

Data Center Alley: Over just a small portion of its roughly 515 square miles, it's home to about 250 data centers, the densest concentration in the world.

America's data center future is Loudoun County's past | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/975597/loudoun-county-virginia-data-center-backlash?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImdOTzNBbXNGVFoiLCJwIjoiL2NzL2ZlYXR1cmVzLzk3NTU5Ny9sb3Vkb3VuLWNvdW50eS12aXJnaW5pYS1kYXRhLWNlbnRlci1iYWNrbGFzaCIsImV4cCI6MTc4ODc4MjY4NiwiaWF0IjoxNzg4MzUwNjg3fQ.fluxVpED1fJ-DEk8WWOP3EJ5LdE4FtugNovvbbdW1j0

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So, in the event of when war breaks out get the hell away from Loudoun County. It's a big, easy, critical target as we've seen with Iran's actions.

[rcjordan]

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

[rcjordan]

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/four-major-ai-models-suffer-rare-overlapping-downtime/

Nvidia bets $13 billion on open AI models with Hugging Face deal | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buy-hugging-face-nearly-13-billion-big-bet-open-ai-models-2026-09-03/

[ergophobe]

> Dutch

That was one of the ones in my dark feeds I bookmarked by hesitated to post.

> Loudon county

Just this morning I heard Tyler Cowen (economist) say that he lives there and the flip side is that
 - his electrical rates are slightly below national average
 - 50% of all property taxes are paid by data centers
 - as reindustrialization goes, it's relatively quiet compared to having a heavy-industry factory nearby
 - they are ugly

[ergophobe]

Cyber Game Done Changed

Scroll down to topic #3 (after all the not very interesting Netflix stuff) to some more interesting cyber security charts
https://www.a16z.news/p/chart-of-the-week-experience-skills

[ergophobe]

Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
https://www.understandingai.org/p/robot-startups-are-trying-everything

[ergophobe]

No dark LLMs in the classroom

Right-wing Desantis says no
https://www.the74million.org/article/desantis-administration-moving-to-regulate-ai-from-pre-k-to-ph-d/

Left-wing LAUSD says no
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-02/lausd-student-ai-ban-policy

[ergophobe]

Norway considers ban on "pervert" glasses
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/norway-considers-ban-on-camera-enabled-wearable-pervert-glasses/

[rcjordan]

> LLMs in the classroom

I'm seeing several cities and a few states working on bans. Most seem to ban through the 8th grade.

[ergophobe]

> gold

Not just Holland and France. Apparently Italy and Germany considering it too.

Europe's Gold Fled the Nazis. Now It's Fleeing Trump.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/europe-gold-fled-the-nazis-now-its-fleeing-trump