Post ArsfXSWdc0pGPfqUsa by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #ArrVh33vwbhXdZOSDQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T00:58:54Z
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I can't stop thinking about someone who lives in one of those houses and works in the data center getting in their car, driving out of the gated community, getting on the freeway and parking on the other side. I don't think anyone would really do that... you'd cut a little hole in that fence, right?
(DIR) Post #ArrWDkmgvGuYVMvJth by xdydx@mastodon.social
2025-03-09T01:04:39Z
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@futurebird No secure Datacenter should be that close to humanity.
(DIR) Post #ArrWEiRV7BbzX1TFCK by Plumbert@thecanadian.social
2025-03-09T01:04:51Z
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@futurebird Nobody who can afford to live in one of those houses works in a datacentre.
(DIR) Post #ArrWkjqzP6S7Atf80u by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:10:46Z
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@futurebird yikes! i wouldn't exactly call that pictue a backyard! both elemnts look industrial to me.
(DIR) Post #ArrWssv1aGk5beQyum by draken@masto.nyc
2025-03-09T01:12:12Z
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@futurebird That concept was in that Simpsons episode where Homer joined the "Stonecutters." I said the same thing.
(DIR) Post #ArrWwENYFhYb24NBcO by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-09T01:12:45Z
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@futurebird data centers produce noise, right? lots of noise? https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/why-data-centers-are-loud-and-how-to-quiet-them-down
(DIR) Post #ArrWy3ZVP7GI5rppRI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:13:11Z
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@barrygoldman1 You know there are like three species of ants TOPS. No fireflies. No crickets. Nothing. And one of three kinds of ants are the fire ants who are invading the data center. (good tbh)
(DIR) Post #ArrX2Mv1Pk7TFuxHXs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:13:56Z
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@timo21 Yes, but you see a bodega or a thrift shop would be SO MUCH worse.
(DIR) Post #ArrX7BDQLzuEPHrBbM by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:14:39Z
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@futurebird in the data center!!! hahahaha
(DIR) Post #ArrX8GUQEKJT3PKCtk by DamonWakes@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-09T01:14:46Z
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@futurebird I think there's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer does just that to get to work at the nuclear plant. (Driving all the way around, not cutting a hole in the fence.)
(DIR) Post #ArrXO6Yyu7Rmtv0iLA by Rycaut@mastodon.social
2025-03-09T01:17:51Z
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@futurebird a friend of my wife was a teacher at a school here in the Bay Area that years ago had a “all students have to be driven to school” policy. Even for the family who lived next door to the school. (We’ve drifted apart and I think she changed jobs but I hope that policy has since changed - my son’s school when he went to a public school actively encouraged walking or biking to school)
(DIR) Post #ArrYAd37QOr5YSFFvk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:26:39Z
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@barrygoldman1 A manga about fire ants who live in a data center and have to dodge efforts to eliminate them, but then they discover the internet and rally the world and the other ants in the other data centers to support their cause.They'd sneak into the break room all the time for snacks. They'd try to go hunting in the suburban moonscape and discover just how isolated they are from the rest of nature. They'd hear tales of a far off forest from an old mantis. Invade some lawns. Good times.
(DIR) Post #ArrYDhb2yUtCWha2C0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:27:12Z
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@barrygoldman1 It'd be called "Invicta"
(DIR) Post #ArrYFOLlVI3RPiEoS0 by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:27:31Z
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@futurebird they can invade the ... DATA!
(DIR) Post #ArrYHMtJtlNxT6sKgq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:27:52Z
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@draken That must be a pattern deep in my mind that this is activating. The notion is so vivid and disturbing.
(DIR) Post #ArrYMqH84orI37cdMm by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:28:50Z
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@futurebird I remember a story about pharoa ants invading a research? hospital and at one point they find this patch of highly radioactive wall and they figured out th ants had been inbibing radio labeld stuff for DECADES and it had become really concentrated in their nest!
(DIR) Post #ArrZetp5izx8DegKq8 by IliDraws@mastodon.online
2025-03-09T01:42:54Z
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@futurebird Mexican here, just do a hole, from your basement to your desk. Chapo did it...you can do it!
(DIR) Post #ArrZoYgdAG6HYsKXJY by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-03-09T01:43:30Z
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@Rycaut @futurebird My city has a rule that all elementary schools have to be walking distance. Middle and High School not so much. Sad to see so many parents driving their kids, but also good to see how many parents walk with their kids to school - and then back home.
(DIR) Post #ArrZoZXRzsLqCh2ie0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T01:45:03Z
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@sbourne @Rycaut About half of our students walk, but they do come from all over the city so many take the subway and busses. That mostly starts in 8th grade alone, before that they come in little batches with a local parent who takes four or five of them in a group.
(DIR) Post #Arraav4jE8jetmf76O by Rycaut@mastodon.social
2025-03-09T01:53:45Z
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@futurebird @sbourne indeed urban students and schools often have more options though it can be a challenge for some families is the school isn’t on an easy bus/train route. Friends in San Francisco have some stories about school selection that ended up with schools for which public transit options there were challenging (as most SF public transit goes into/out of the downtown area)Walkable schools has lots of benefits - helps foster connections between parents
(DIR) Post #Arri7JXEWMuxhmOB4y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T03:18:02Z
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@calendsofapril Those rooflines look like something out of the sims. They aren't really house shaped houses?
(DIR) Post #ArrjmwY6TMEiX3D5wu by scm@sfba.social
2025-03-09T03:36:48Z
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@futurebird really though, the people who live in those houses work an hours drive away, and the data center people likewise live an hour away
(DIR) Post #ArroiWYBgzgYVkxgRc by beatnik@techhub.social
2025-03-09T04:32:01Z
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@futurebird @barrygoldman1 make computer bugs insects again!
(DIR) Post #Ars4GjIaId1pCwQqJ6 by draeath@infosec.exchange
2025-03-09T07:26:17Z
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@futurebird @barrygoldman1 100% - what's that species of fire ant that just loves getting into breaker panels and such? (or is it a more general characteristic?)
(DIR) Post #Ars5z0tGM6R6SlGflA by masek@infosec.exchange
2025-03-09T07:45:29Z
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@futurebird Well, that should give you low latency 😁
(DIR) Post #Ars6J56kNuNxKp90UK by kiros@mastodon.world
2025-03-09T07:49:06Z
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@futurebird I guess you would take the bike 🚲 rather
(DIR) Post #Ars8THGgEBvfqxmQ4m by munin@infosec.exchange
2025-03-09T08:13:22Z
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@futurebird @uastronomer it'd be tempting but it'd also be a security incident for the facility and a whole bunch of people with no sense of humor would show up to cause problems.
(DIR) Post #ArsE0n8bG2Mg1RnhNw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T09:15:29Z
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@barrygoldman1 Issue Titles1. Mother2. Picnic3. Breakroom4. Cyberants5. Suburbia6. 4047. The Mantis8. The Revolution9. The Forest10. Beyond
(DIR) Post #ArsE9CTsupxYwKlYOW by John_Loader@ohai.social
2025-03-09T09:16:55Z
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@futurebird My first trip to Richardson Texas I could see the office from my hotel across the road but had to get a taxi. In Nashville I was thought odd walking from the hotel to the office, admittedly no pavement, but 10 minutes away
(DIR) Post #ArsWTnZQWgq6wAKW5A by robotistry@sciencemastodon.com
2025-03-09T12:42:22Z
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@futurebird @calendsofapril I've been looking at house plans, and the number with simple rooflines is miniscule. And you can't even search for "basic rectangular footprint house with simple roof" - it's all "inexpensive, ahh, that means you want a *small* version of this ridiculously complex design with lots of gables and random sticking-out-bits".
(DIR) Post #ArsfXSWdc0pGPfqUsa by barrygoldman1@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T14:18:53Z
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@draeath @futurebird probly a few of them. red imported fire ant in particular likes nesting in trucks, so they spread qucikly!story hereWalter Tschinkel: The Fire Antshttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072404
(DIR) Post #ArsfXTmyujUeKeV3zc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-09T14:23:54Z
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@barrygoldman1 @draeath I now need to draw a fire ant trucker girl in a plaid shirt and ball cap bonding with a leafcutter major over "hauling"
(DIR) Post #ArsgX3p7YLnFkurgOm by jamesfee@mastodon.social
2025-03-09T14:35:00Z
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@futurebird well you need to swing by the drive through on the way to work.
(DIR) Post #ArsgeUiJyRGxBKEGIq by gregly@retro.pizza
2025-03-09T14:36:18Z
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@futurebird @lisamelton On the plus side, maybe the market value of those McMansions plunged due to the huge industrial building next to them.