Data Centers are electoral poison

 #AI #China #DataCenters

RantWoman is heartened by all the local communities rising up and fighting to keep data centers AWAY.

Aside from general peeves about electricity and water demands, noise and pollution, RantWoman has the following serious beefs with AI showing up EVERYWHERE.

--A lot of the time, RantWoman does not, Not, NOT want multiple lines of description pablum. She just wants a direct link to what the organization she is searching for chooses to say THEMSELVES.

--RantWoman already has plenty to read / filter in her email. RantWoman does not, Not, NOT need Gemini adding more verbiage to wade through.

--RantWoman does not, Not, NOT want AI help in composing obituaries about RantMom. RantWoman wants clear pricing based on word counts and the time and space to edit her own dang postings and / or more importantly to experience the thrills of sibling bonding while collaborating with Little Sister.

And one more thing: rare books are ARTIFACTS in their own right and deserve protection from the barbarians at Amazon who cut them apart to feed into their AI models. 

It's not like Antifa meets at 6 pm on Mondays at the library

 #TXpol

Are Flock cameras CONSTITUTIONAL?

 #4thAmendment #LPR #ALPR #IntermittentPublicObservation #MassSurveillance #MOSAICproblem

#DigitalLocation #GeoFenceWarrant

RantWoman is NOT a lawyer but presents this video as part of public conversation 

Adult Diapers and a catering truck

#Ableism #DonSnoreleone #DiaperDon

If you have already heard as much as you care to of the President having to skulk out of the real #AirForceOne on a catering truck and fly to England in a different plane with no call sign and don't want the joy of a RantWoman rant about ableism, feel free to go chase other elements of the plane story somewhere else.

RantWoman's basic points:

--Impressive, respectful comments about both Pesidents Roosevelt and the Biden doing travel in spite of infirmities, challenges.

--Whatever the current President's medical issues with his digestive and excretory systems, he clearly has had the issues for a long time. RantWoman HOPES he is deeply embarrassed about them but also sincerely wishes that someone in his life would help him manage better than is currently occurring. The President would still be an odious individual but MAYBE he would stink less.

--Worst of all, on top of the ableist mockery, the US SUPPOSEDLY decimated Iran's military capacity. But President #Stablegenius STILL had to be moved to an incognito plane. Of COURSE. Of Course!

Yabloko: the only antiwar party running in the Russian parliamentary elections

 #Russia #elections #Yabloko #USSR #Ukraine

Some background

Remembering 1989 protests in Dresden and Putin dispersing protestors before the 1991 fall of the Berlin Wall 

Fareed Zakaria: Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin

On a different theme

Why MAGA is turning on Russia | If You're Listening

To many e-Bike E-Scooter crashes in just one week.

 #eBike #eScooter

RantWoman does NOT like to wake up to items like this in the morning newsfeed.

RantWoman is also a judgmental witch: was the person on the eBike doing ANYTHING to be visible to motorists? It's a tragedy all around but RantWoman has to ask.

Teen dies days after e-bike collision

And another crash this week

Bus hits man on scooter near Seattle waterfront

Sarcastic comments:

Even if your vehicle is not a car, you better understand STOPPING DISTANCE for vehicles of different sizes. The bus is A LOT bigger than an e-bike or e-scooter. It takes longer to stop, and it can do even more damage than a car.

Sincerely hoping for this guy's recovery.

DO NOT cross against the light. DO NOT even try to beat the light.

Excellent e bike irritation

#JournweyMap

E bike blocking sidewalk
at bus stop

Has RantWoman mentioned in, say, the last 10 minutes that she finds it really easy just indiscriminately to HATE all scooters, #BikeShare and EBike vehicles.

 The photo here is one reason why.

Will people want to walk along the sidewalk blocked by this #LimeBike? People getting off the back of the bus might.

RantWoman meant to post this a couple days ago in hopes that the sidewalk blocking bike renter would have opportunity to mend their ways.

Here, though, there is an aspect of celebration!

RantWoman came across this sidewalk impediment because, she had just left PT feeling great. Also the bus stop closest to her PT appointment was closed and RantWoman did not have the option of minimal walking with transfers from one route to another at the same bus stop. RantWoman was going to have to walk somewhere. She was actually THRILLED to be able to walk strongly all the way to the stop with the wayward EBike.

Two, count them two sets of compression bands