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Wendell Berry has died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-01 | get Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America book → | tags: wendell berry, obituary, author

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These Two Self-Described ‘Country Hicks’ Just Turned Down $26 Million to Build a Data Center on Their Land (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jon Small | tags: meta, data center, kentucky

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Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma” (futurism.com)

2026-08-17 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: farnsley middle school, george washington university, hallucinations

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The ‘Country Hicks’ Who Refused $26 Million from an AI Data Center (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: kentucky, ai data center, country hicks

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‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: data center, kentucky, ida huddleston

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Over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers; US protests intensify as more arrests are being made — almost 40 arrested this year in backlash to AI factory buildout (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jon Martindale | tags: ai data centers, nashville zoo, freddie o'connell

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This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: center, cooling, mason

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Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,' says landowner (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: ai company, family, huddleston

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NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus (slashdot.org)

2026-07-29 | tags: nextera, brookfield, kentucky data center

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Brookfield, NextEra to Develop $100 Billion Data Center Campus in Kentucky (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-29 | tags: brookfield, nextera, data center

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Ransomware Attack Puts a Chill on Japanese Frozen-Food Chain (darkreading.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: ransomware, japan, frozen food

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Ransomware Attack Puts a Chill On Japanese Frozen-Food Chain (darkreading.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: ransomware, kyoto frozen foods, cyberattack

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Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do (theverge.com)

2026-07-20 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: ford, f-150 lightning, universal electric vehicle platform

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NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash (slashdot.org)

2026-05-22 | get Flight Data Recorder Simulator → | tags: nto reconstruct the cockpit audio, raising privacy concerns ntsb, cockpit voice recorder

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Social-Media Companies Settle Youth-Harm Case Ahead of Wave of Trials (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-21 | get Parental Control Smartphone App → | tags: social media, kentucky, youth harm

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Ford Launches Energy Subsidiary to Build Data Center-Scale Batteries at Kentucky Plant (cnet.com)

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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get Cyberlibertarianism Book → | tags: internet, paper maps, honda civic

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Infants are bleeding out after parents decline vitamin K shots given at birth (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-06 | get Vitamin K Baby Shot → | tags: vitamin k, newborns, maryland

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Infants are bleeding to death after parents shun routine vitamin K shots (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-06 | tags: vitamin k, newborn screening, maryland

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Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby (slashdot.org)

2026-05-03 | by Posted | get Kentucky Derby Betting Guide → | tags: microsoft copilot, claude, kentucky derby

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The Kentucky Derby is Saturday. Here’s how to watch (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | get Kentucky Derby Streaming Guide → | tags: kentucky derby, may 2, viewers

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What's New on Peacock in May? Catch the Kentucky Derby, a 'Summer House' Reunion and More (cnet.com)

2026-05-01 | by See Full Bio | get Peacock Streaming Device → | tags: peacock, kentucky derby, triple crown

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Best Chemical Drain Cleaners of 2026: After Testing 8 Cleaners, Here Are 3 That Work (cnet.com)

2026-04-30 | by See Full Bio | get Drain Cleaning Chemical Set → | tags: drano max gel, chemical drain cleaners, louisville kentucky

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Bourbon waste could provide next-gen supercapacitor components (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | by Edd Gent | get Supercapacitor Energy Storage Kit → | tags: bourbon, kentucky, supercapacitors

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Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-25 | by Jowi Morales | get Kentucky Farm Land Map → | tags: ai data center, kentucky farmland, hyperscalers

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How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-25 | get Supercapacitor Energy Storage Kit → | tags: bourbon, stillage, supercapacitors

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Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-24 | by Graham Starr | get SmartFarm Data Center Kit → | tags: artificial intelligence, data center, wkrc

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We tested 10 portable power stations in our lab - these two models were the most efficient (zdnet.com)

2026-03-18 | by Allison Murray | get Anker PowerHouse Portable Charger → | tags: bluetti ac240, oupes mega 1, portable power stations

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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-23 | get Data Center → | tags: data center, silicon valley, kentucky

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“I’m not for sale”: Farmers refuse to take millions in data center deals (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-23 | get Data Center → | tags: data center, rural lands, silicon valley