Doug Mohney

Doug Mohney

@dougontech.bsky.social

#space #satellite #ces2025 #fiber #broadband and other hashtags of #tech. There are those in our families and local communities that already have hard days now. In the days and weeks to come, what can you do to help?

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See that @robpegoraro.com might be busy.

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When leaders test the limits of power what does it mean for the people?
In 1860, Frederick Douglass reminded us the Constitution belongs to the people.
It’s time to reclaim the promise of “We The People” & demand it include ALL the people…..equally.
THEN IS NOW. Our future is ours to shape. VOTE. 🗳️

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Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

Do not understand why CareFirst is spending time and money calling me when I didn't opt in for more "help" in the first place. Just cover my Zep and we'll call it even.

Drink.

And now, Richard Garriott, AKA "Lord British," has claimed back the rights to the groundbreaking Ultima series of computer role-playing games, which he sold to Electronic Arts in 1992: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/richard...

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Replying to @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social

My favourite bit of reporting for this story was finding out ISS astronauts were growing little gardens in their quarters in secret—and only this summer have NASA explicitly permitted them to do this. Astronauts are, in many ways, just regular, hopeful humans. 🌱

What people don't factor in when talking about buying Starlink is the owner's tendency to use his social media wing to attack you if he doesn't like your policies (see: Delta, India, Ukraine).

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why not: Librarians Love Cool James

Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

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New: AI data centers’ indirect water use - water consumed by power plants to generate electricity for power-hungry server farms - is magnitudes larger than the facilities’ onsite water consumption and is largely undisclosed. Free link. With @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comAI's Water Strain Includes Surging Demand From Electricity UseIt takes a lot of water to generate the power consumed by server farms.

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Only Old Ones know, but Nokia was the OG in the 800 MHz phone market back when that meant a GSM/TDMA variant. The three line display was an earthquake. It is time for Nokia/Iceye to jump into this mayhem

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@teroterotero.bsky.social Rob writes the thing about potential Finnish fraudsters

Rob Pegoraro@robpegoraro.com

Remember Donut Lab, the startup that wowed CES with a solid-state battery for EVs free of the usual trade-offs that would go into mass production within three months? Nine months later, they have published a bunch of YouTube clips and put merch on sale--but the battery has yet to hit production.

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#BREAKING | 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 — Footage from Saudi Arabia's King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh showing destroyed parked civilian airliner following Houthi ballistic missile attack from Yemen.

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More details from a Comcast event this evening: The drones that it's testing in Houston do not sport any corporate branding, in case anybody there was wondering if they should start looking in H-Town skies for "Xfinity Air" drones. And no, they are not armed.

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Fascinating slide from a Comcast presentation at #TechExpo26 about how it's using fiber sensing and drones (yes, drones) to deal with the non-trivial problem of people stealing fiber, cable and other wires to sell their metal components for scrap.

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With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.

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With The Forever Dead (bk 3) due out soon, I've yanked this forward from my yet to be announced October TBR. I've enjoyed a few of @birmo.bsky.social's earlier books over the years, so looking forward to this. #scifibooks #sciencefiction #nowreading #spaceopera

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The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.