This is very bad news.

A data center in Morrow County, eastern Oregon, has been linked by local officials and residents to a surge in rare cancers, miscarriages, and serious organ damage.

Former county commissioner and cattle rancher Jim Doherty began investigating after noticing unusual medical conditions across the county’s roughly 45,000 residents. Testing of 70 household wells found that 68 exceeded federal nitrate limits in drinking water, with Doherty reporting multiple miscarriages, kidney removals, and a non‑smoker who developed a cancer typically associated with smoking. Initially blamed on industrial megafarms, the pollution was later tied to the combined impact of agricultural runoff and wastewater from Amazon’s 10,000‑square‑foot data center, which has operated in the county since 2011. The facility, which relies heavily on groundwater for cooling, is accused of intensifying nitrate contamination throughout the local aquifer.

According to the reporting, megafarms in the area generate millions of gallons of nitrate‑laden wastewater that seep into the ground, while Amazon’s massive water use for chip cooling is said to “supercharge” the problem by drawing in contaminated groundwater, concentrating it through evaporation, and returning even more toxic water back into the system. In some cases, water from the data center reportedly contained nitrate levels eight times above Oregon’s safety threshold. Amazon denies that its operations have any meaningful impact on water quality, emphasizing that it does not add nitrates and uses only a small fraction of the overall water supply. However, residents and activists, including Oregon Rural Action executive director Kristin Ostrom, compare the slow and unequal response to the crisis to Flint, Michigan, arguing that politically and economically powerless communities are bearing the brunt of the health consequences.

References (APA style)

Wilkins, J. (2025, November 29). *Amazon data center linked to cluster of rare cancers*. Futurism.

AI Police Reports: Year in Review
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I hate when people ask me what I did 6 years ago.

Look, it's not like I have 2020 vision

BAHAHHA HAHAHA

Very based New York Times take. Pipes are wonderful.

Greenland, your locals move to Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans, move to Greenland. Annex Puerto Rico.

Now the Greenlanders get their own nation, Greenland gets to be American, and gets recognized as the 51st state.
Everyone is happy.

C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
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50th birthday of the Scheme Programming Language

Notice how VIM no longer asks for you to donate to children in Uganda?

"Dear VIM community


Many of you have known Bram Moolenaar, who sadly passed away in 2023. Some of you also know that he was passionate about his charity ICCF Holland, finding many ways to collect funds to sponsor the education of marginalised children in Uganda at the Kibaale Childrens’ Centre. Many of you contributed regularly or incidentally; big or small, all your donations have been transferred to Uganda to support the education of children. The extra donations we received in 2023 after Bram’s passing have been used to set up two school libraries and launch a study fund for children who want to pursue higher education.

With the loss of Bram, we realize we can no longer sustain the charity for the long term. After discussions with Bram’s family and our sister charity Kuwasha in Canada, we agreed to transfer all activities of ICCF Holland to Kuwasha, and dissolve ICCF Holland in 2025.

We are still receiving donations from VIM users which are highly appreciated! All donations are transferred to Uganda. However, we will close our accounts later this year. The work in Uganda will certainly continue. If you want to continue sponsoring the charity in Uganda, whether it is because you appreciate VIM, or you want to donate in memory of Bram, please send your donations to Kuwasha. All donations will be transferred to Kibaale Children’s Centre, in the same way as ICCF Holland has been doing in the past 30 years.


You can send your donations to Kuwasha through the following means:

Thank you so much for your support over the years! You certainly have made a huge difference in the lives of many children in Uganda.

Yours sincerely,


Peter Ploeger and Helena Posthumus

Board members of ICCF Holland

Christian Brabandt"

https://www.vim.org/news/news.php

AI could never detect cancer

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/21/1110192/why-its-so-hard-to-use-ai-to-diagnose-cancer/

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

JEFFREY EPSTEIN KEPT A FULL COPY OF THE 2005 BASH REFERENCE MANUAL

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00315849.pdf

Wow.
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︀︀Just made my first AI video game with Google’s Genie 3!
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︀︀The prompt: "Make me a AAAA Bethesda-style space RPG about exploring moons. Focus entirely on rock textures, ignore actual gameplay content."
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︀︀The gaming industry has never been so cooked.