mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+chuckyaJWP-stan. Creature that emerged from the alkaline artemisia barrens 🏳️🌈
So many apartments have come online recently in Salt Lake City that the University is having vacancies in student housing for the first time in years (maybe even ever but the reporters didn't get data on that) https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/08/27/university-utah-struggles-fill/
Revealed preference for remote voting does Kim Jong Un numbers in Utah, and yet most people use their vote to elect politicians that want to take it away: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/08/18/most-utahns-rely-vote-by-mail/
The province of Ontario is named after the lake, not the other way around
I get annoyed when a show has a perfectly good title in its native language and then it gets "translated" into English with something utterly lame like "unchained", "untamed", etc.
I had fun watching the World Cup, and I finally had a free evening last night, so I thought I'd go to the local sports bar to watch the RSL game. Turns out they weren't showing it because MLS as a whole only properly televises 1 or 2 games a week, and last night was Kansas City v St. Louis. Oh well, guess MLS didn't want to bring in new viewers that badly.
Lolz I just noticed that Lindsay Ellis changed the title of her video on Dolly Parton from last week. Before it was "Yeah, but is Dolly really THAT great?", and now it's "Yes, Dolly Was Actually That Great".
I thought she was going to be one of the ones that live to 100. I know I'll be spending the rest of the day listening to her music.
While UTA's planned 20% fare hike is extreme, the people advocating for going fare-free without a simultaneous investment in capacity clearly haven't been on a train at rush hour in a long time.
Ngl I find simple errors in writing comforting now because it increases the odds someone wrote it.
One of the hyperscalers wants to build a 9 GW data center powered entirely by fossil gas at the north end of the Great Salt Lake with the involvement of the military and an enormous subsidy from all government agencies involved.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/25/hyperscale-data-center-may-be/
The forecast for this week looks like the first step down towards fall, and I am so excited for it
I've been noticing that a bunch of roadsides disturbed by UDOT in the last few years have a bunch of native plants in them (most obviously this time of year Lewis flax and some sort of globemallow), and I'm guessing that means they've been putting down a local wildflower seed mix after construction. Good for them!
I woke up this morning strongly thinking it was Saturday and I didn't have to go to work, but then my husband's alarm went off :boo_hoo:
The @sltrib@mas.to ran a story on the financial disclosures for the men in the 1st CD Democratic primary, and they focused on McAdam's having stock in one of the gigascale data centers being built, which makes sense considering *gestures broadly*. But they also could have written a whole article on the fact that the Democratic nominee didn't even file on time. Also the crypto-bro candidate doesn't even know where Delta is. Lots of meat in that story. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/05/22/ben-mcadams-has-stock-rural-utah/
We are beyond the need for "clean energy fees". Utilities should be giving customers a discount to pick clean energy. Instead they charge extra fees and still refuse to actually build any solar or wind developments.
(I'm salty at Pacificorp colluding with the coal and gas industries to keep consumer prices high and poison the air and land).
Google: We're introducing a new privacy violation! I guess you should opt out now if you don't want us to sell this data. Also we haven't finished the opt out webpage yet so be sure to remember next week/month/year for when we get that together.
A VMT tax is a good idea and governments should switch to them from the gas tax, but they are seizing the moment to gather invasive location data that the gas tax never provided. A VMT tax should literally just be change in odometer reading over a period of time, paid to the state (which then forwards a portion to the feds). Even that is more information than the gas tax gives. No need to track which roads people are driving on, when they're driving, their habits, and all that.
We finally got an electric range to replace the gas range that came with the house. There was a 50 A spot in the breaker labeled "range", and we could see the outlet in the correct spot, so we thought we didn't have to do any electrical work. When the delivery people came through, they told us the outlet was for a dryer 🫠. Construction companies delenda est.
I was at a Mexican restaurant earlier and they had on their menu carbonara Buldak with chips, corn, mayonnaise, nacho cheese, and cojita cheese, and honestly they have the whole "fusion" concept nailed down. The trendy Japanese-Italian places should take notes. I was there for dessert, but I'll defs be back for that another day.
In a company townhall they touted that removing the knowledge base search function and replacing it with an LLM reduced support demand. In my experience it's because the LLM is very good at frustrating you to the point you just give up and don't do the thing you wanted to do.
Today was so easy
🌳 Plant #965 🍀
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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