Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/amazon-says-its-data-centers-use-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-11/amazon-says-its-data-centers-use-2-5-billion-gallons-of-water
Bloomberg.com
Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water
Amazon.com Inc. said its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water worldwide last year, or about 5% of the amount metro Seattle consumes annually.
The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfApUobqN8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfApUobqN8Y
YouTube
The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION
The $20 AI subscription you use every day is a mathematical impossibility. While you enjoy flat-rate access to advanced tools like Claude Code, the raw compute costs for a power user can actually skyrocket to $15,000 a year. We are officially living inside…
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal
the Guardian
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
Show HN: A police department for your Claude Code agents
https://github.com/varmabudharaju/agent-pd/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/varmabudharaju/agent-pd/blob/master/README.md
GitHub
agent-pd/README.md at master · varmabudharaju/agent-pd
A police department for your Claude Code agents — a logging-only hook + CLI that audits the main agent and every subagent and reports rule offenses (permission bypass, out-of-scope & creden...
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
Terence Eden’s Blog
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with…
If You Are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort
https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/
tombedor.dev
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort | Tom Bedor's Blog
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read?
Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/biological-evolution-and-information
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/biological-evolution-and-information
Construction-Physics
Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition
A few weeks ago we looked at a simulation of technological evolution by economist Brian Arthur, in which he was able to start with simple building blocks (such as a NAND gate) and evolve surprisingly complex circuits (such as a 12-way AND gate or a 4-bit…
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2002) [pdf]
https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf
https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf
Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds
https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/
https://doug.sh/posts/erm-a-local-cli-that-strips-ums-uhs-and-erms-from-speech/
doug.sh
erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …