Well, ain’t that a cryin’ shame …

Iirc, they had a tarp up when they put the name in; and they currently have the tarps up now.

What I don’t get is why they’re using scaffolding and making such a complex process. Surely it would’ve been quicker and cheaper to send up some guys in a couple of cherry pickers.

Lol. About half the seats are empty in the picture, yet “several ticketed fans could be seen standing in concourses”.

The void is hungry and wants chimken.

edit: so, there was a severe thunderstorm watch+warning, and the crew weren’t going to go up on the scaffolding due to the possibility of lightning. They’re currently working on additional scaffolding.

It’s after 5pm, there are no workers, and nothing’s been taken down, so I doubt it’ll happen today. They’ll issue a citation to someone - probably the head of the Foundation, unless she can divert the blame to someone else - and they’ll have mealy-mouthed excuses as to why it couldn’t be done on time. They’ll likely give her an extension; if she misses it, she’ll be called into the carpet and scolded (again). There may be a fine way some point, but I suspect she’ll have the Kennedy Center pay for it, so she won’t care.

Lol, now that I’ve actually read the article …

The imminent risk of living next to a data center may be why they show up for a meeting, but they’re committing to the issue for bigger, deeper reasons. Political corruption and corporate malfeasance make them feel politically impotent. Voicing their objections, sharing their anxieties with others, recalling politicians who override them and in some cases beating the opposition is giving them something few politicians are offering—a taste of political power.”

Yes, yes, good!

Proponents of data centers argue that debates over electricity price hikes or water resources are misinformed. […] emphasized that only drought-stricken locations or areas with strained grids need to worry about those concerns.

The majority of the country is in a drought. And even if you go to an area where there isn’t drought or the grid is fine, the amount of water and electricity needed will strain resources.

And economists suggested that communities risk overlooking little-discussed long-term benefits, like employment gains that “are likely to grow as new data centers attract businesses that use AI.”

What local businesses are going to use AI to any degree? And using AI to any degree is going to be offset by job losses to AI. The only truly local jobs that will be created are a handful of people to look after the equipment - and even then, it’s more likely those people will be shipped in from elsewhere.

It may be money standing in the Democrats’ way of fully embracing the data center resistance, she suggested, as many AI firms are donating hundreds of millions to campaigns to sway elections.

Yeah, we already knew that.

"the voters [are] showing up to fight data centers demonstrate that a lot of us want something different.” And what many politicians and AI fans see as a sea of unsubstantiated backlash is actually “the righteous rage driving millions of Americans to look up from their enemy and finally see, instead, a neighbor and future worth fighting for,”

Well, that’s such a shame …

Among the allegations is a claim that […] money from a fund containing bequests and donations intended for the opera had been pledged as collateral for a line of credit. The Kennedy Center sharply rejected the claims, maintaining that those funds indeed belonged to the Kennedy Center itself.

In a statement to the Times, spokeswoman Roma Daravi argued that the relationship with the opera company had been a financial drain on the institution for years. Citing calculations from an outside accounting firm, she said the opera had “accumulated a $72 million deficit to the center” during the period it operated as an affiliate.

That’s great, but we can do better :)

I don’t know if it’ll help, but there was this reddit post [sorry for the hellsite link] last year that listed a bunch of smaller, more specific/niche job search boards.

“They’re not reparations! It’s – it’s – umm, it’s an investment fund!”

We bombed a civilian water supply (pretty sure that’s a war crime, not that they’ll care), they’ve completely shut the Strait, Trump threatened a massive strike threatening to seize some oil/infrastructure - best guess was Kharg Island. Now that’s off, again - at least not until he gets his late night drug fix and riled up by Fox.

Hunh. You know how he keeps flip-flopping on what he’s planning to do? I wonder if that’s because there are different news/opinion hosts on the weekends.

Sorry for the links to hellsite, but:

Here’s a video of a masked mob going down a Belfast street, trying and sometimes succeeding in breaking down doors to get into houses of suspected immigrants. And here’s one where they set a vehicle on fire and sent it down the street.

Edit: add in this video of people who set fire to a stopped van and push it down the road so it can crash into - well, whatever it happens to hit, I guess, not their problem …

If you google for more Belfast videos, make sure to specify something like “mobs”, “fires”, “riots”, etc, as the video of the second stabbing is fairly prevalent online.

The Wikipedia article is getting updated regularly, but is obviously not as polished as events are still evolving.

Ugh. Okay, so: last December, Henry Nowak (a dual UK-Polish citizen) was stabbed by Vickrum Singh Digwa (a UK-born UK citizen of the Sikh faith). After the altercation, Mr Nowak was handcuffed by the police, who did not believe he had been stabbed, and died on the sidewalk. Mr Digwa was convicted of the murder on June 1st, and the bodycam footage of Mr Nowak was released last week. The UK right-wing (and their foreign sponsors) have spent several months using the incident to help foster anti-immigrant sentiment.

A couple days ago, a Sudanese man living in Belfast stabbed his neighbor, a disabled man named Stephen Ogilvie. Right-wing figures claim that it was an attempted beheading; I do not know enough details of the attack to definitively refute that, but believe it unlikely. Elon Musk, himself an immigrant of dubious origins and even more questionable beliefs, echoed the calls from various UK right-wing figures for anti-immigrant protests, with at least one figure saying, “Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.”

Mobs formed, some going down streets and breaking into houses where they suspected immigrants were living. They torched cars and sent them rolling down the street, stole a bus and set it on fire, etc. The UK right wing (as far as I can tell) appears to be doing little (if anything) to de-escalate the situation. It is not a good time to be a visible minority in parts of Ireland, Scotland, or the UK.

The gentleman in this video is attempting to show one of the masked mobs in the streets, and is promptly attacked for being a visible minority.

No, but thank you. I honestly just wanted to thank you for all the work you’ve put in to create and maintain the instance and let the rest of us play here, and congratulate you on your instance’s birthday :) Thank you so much for improving the fediverse!

I mean, the parameters for a first date are generally pretty simple and low-key. It’s generally type-of-food (lunch, dinner, coffee) plus type-of-activity (walk, movie, game-of-some-sort (bowling, axe throwing, whatever)). They’re using AI to accomplish a pretty simple task. Which means they’re also likely to offload harder tasks as well. I am not your mom, your secretary, your PA, your maid, your cook, your housekeeper, your personal shopper, etc, etc.

He’s saying it because he thinks he can get more concessions from both countries if he threatens to tank the deal.

Man is asked about inflation and says the hit to the stock market was worth it. The man literally does not understand inflation.

What a fantastic picture - thank you for sharing it!

Congratulations, to Lemmy.zip and to the upcoming winners! I’m not a member, but I appreciate your hard work and dedication to keeping the servers up and running these past years - you make the fediverse a better place. Thank you, and congratulations again!

Edit: no! Please delete entry #12 (and I’m not eligible anyway)! I just wanted to say thanks and congratulations! :(