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From heated rally language to heated server rooms, we’re covering the backlash against Mamdani’s AIPAC remarks, Nvidia’s new water-saving coolant tech, and more.
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On this day in 1868, what common arrangement was patented that solved a mechanical problem that hasn't existed for decades? (answer revealed below!)
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Before We Dip In (TL;DR)
In today’s issue:
Mamdani draws fire for AIPAC rally remarks. 🔊
Documents tie Gabbard to religious group leader. 🏛️
Nvidia targets data center water waste. 🤖
Plus, take today’s poll and check out the Nostalgia Nerd quiz answer down below!
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VIRAL NEWS
💻 Mamdani’s Rally Language Draws Condemnation from Jewish Groups
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism over remarks he made about AIPAC during a Brooklyn rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic primaries. Mamdani invoked political philosopher Antonio Gramsci’s phrase “now is the time of monsters” before criticizing AIPAC’s political influence and support for Israeli government policies.
Mamdani later said his comments were directed at a lobbying organization and its political influence, not at a religious or ethnic community. Supporters, including Voice of Rabbis, echoed that distinction, while the Anti-Defamation League described the rhetoric as dehumanizing and conspiratorial.
The divide: Multiple Jewish organizations called the framing dangerous. Mamdani’s allies argue criticizing a lobbying group’s political influence is legitimate speech. The mayor has not walked back the remarks.
POLITICS
🏛️ Washington Post Links Gabbard to Political Directives from Religious Leader
A Washington Post investigation found that Tulsi Gabbard, who recently resigned as director of national intelligence, received detailed political guidance from Chris Butler, founder of the Hawaii-based Science of Identity Foundation, throughout her time in Congress. The reporting draws on over 25,000 pages of documents from former campaign worker Rebecca Saltzburg.
Hundreds of memos spanning 2011 to 2017 included instructions on legislation, media talking points, and social media strategy. Gabbard has long denied Butler’s influence, but stylometric analysis linked the memos to Butler’s known writing patterns.
The paper trail: A 2014 memo directed Gabbard to propose legislation penalizing countries whose citizens had joined ISIS. She released a public statement the next day and introduced a bill within a week.
Dipper Poll
:📈 Today’s Poll: Guided Governance
A Washington Post investigation found over 25,000 pages of memos with detailed political directives sent to Tulsi Gabbard during her time in Congress, with stylometric analysis linking them to the leader of a religious group she has long been associated with. Gabbard has denied the influence.
How much outside guidance is too much for an elected official?
TECHNOLOGY
🤖 Nvidia Claims Liquid Cooling Could Solve AI’s Growing Water Problem
Nvidia announced at London Climate Action Week that its latest Rubin generation AI system can run on 100% liquid cooling in a closed loop, with no fans and no evaporative water loss. Chief Sustainability Officer Josh Parker described the water consumption challenge for data centers as largely solved.
Industry observers pushed back on the framing. The technology would take years to deploy across existing facilities, and water consumed in electricity generation and chip manufacturing can double or triple a data center’s total water footprint, areas the new system does not address.
The gap: Nvidia’s coolant covers roughly a quarter to a third of a data center’s total water use. Energy consumption and air pollution from expanding AI workloads remain open questions.
Fun Facts
⚔️ Conflict: In 1866, Liechtenstein sent 80 soldiers to the Austro-Prussian War and returned with 81 after befriending an Austrian liaison officer on the way home. War’s only known net positive.
🦩 Animals: Flamingos feed with their heads upside down, using specialized beak structures to filter food from water. Nature gave them one of the strangest eating positions and said “good luck.”
📚 Language: The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language: over 430 distinct uses in the Oxford English Dictionary. One word. Four hundred jobs. No benefits.
🤯 WTF: In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee tried to sell trade secrets to Pepsi, and Pepsi immediately reported the attempt to Coca-Cola and the FBI. Even corporate betrayal has a code of conduct.
TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:
The QWERTY Keyboard
On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for a “Type-Writer” with a key arrangement designed to prevent adjacent typebars from jamming during fast typing. That layout, eventually called QWERTY, survived the death of the mechanical typewriter, the rise of personal computers, and every alternative design that tried to replace it. More than 150 years later, it remains the default on virtually every device with keys.
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