What is the next step when you get to say stuff like this out loud? It starts with "c" and ends with "amps" and wait! They're also contracting firms to build them.
Dark times.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
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For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq.
That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.
One of the main reasons of the mess we're currently in.
Licence to be as depraved as possible.
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“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
The implications are very sinister, even if he's, as usual, full of crap.
These fucking people...
Love this Better Offline episode where Ed Zitron @edzitron.com and Cal Newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social discuss issues in current AI reporting. "Vibe reporting" and "hype laundering" are common also in quantum computing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uX...
‘The people are being charged with keeping the peace, asked to stand firm against the federal agents who are disrupting it. This is a sick form of double taxation — your paycheck gets docked so that a guy in a mask can beat you up while you try to calm him down.’
We've always known this would have been the case.
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
It would be better closing it altogether and burning the server, but I see Paris being a considerate centrist here 🤣
Pure, unadulterated and yet unbearably pointless and dumb evil.
DHS: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: "ICE did NOT target or arrest a child. On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration. As agents approached, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled on foot-abandoning his child. For the child's safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias. Our officer's made multiple attempts to get the alleged mother who was inside the house to take custody of her child. Officers even assured her she would NOT be taken her into custody. The alleged mother refused to accept custody of the child. The father told officers he wanted the child to remain with him. "During this situation, agitators swarmed the scene and began yelling and blowing horns, scaring the child. "Our officers primary concern during the entire operation was the safety and welfare of the child. Following the mother's abandonment of the child, officers abided by the father's wishes to keep the child with him and even got the child McDonald's and played his favorite music. Father and son are together at Dilley.
DHS just sent another statement about ICE’s abduction of a 5-year-old in Minnesota.
They didn’t address my question about whether the child was moved to Texas. They also didn’t provide any evidence for their claims.
They are, however, claiming the child’s “alleged mother” actually abandoned him.
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
Ibrahem Hanafi, dottorando palestinese in visita in Italia, racconta la sistematica demolizione, fisica, politica e culturale, delle università di Gaza e della Cisgiordania. E invita la ricerca europea a dare una mano
Luddite All-Stars ❤️
An unmitigated disaster and, unfortunately, a blueprint for many bad-faith actor against research and higher education all around the world.
The kind of hardcore which resonates differently once you don't listen to as much hardcore as in your teenage days.
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Il boom degli studentati privati e dei coliving come indice della finanziarizzazione dello spazio urbano e delle barriere economiche contro i più poveri
Is he shaming mothers not able to breastfeed their babies? This clown has no shame.
Heart-breaking.
Good government, despite what rich people (and many newspaper columnists) think, is really hard and it’s really, really *particular*. It takes sustained expertise just to keep things from getting worse. Making meaningful improvements that help people’s lives isn’t intuitive.
“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.”
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children.
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One of the most important storyline of the 21st is half of the american political spectrum losing their goddamn mind and being terminally detached from reality.
Data center investment is growing quickly Construction spending on data centers (millions of dollars) SAL,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 ChatGPT launch 21,000 15,000 10200 1,000 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jun 18 Jan 20 Jan 22 J24 In just three years, spending on data centers in the US has gone from $13.8 billion to $41.2 billion per year. Construction spending on data centers has grown by 200% since the launch of ChatGPT.
rising data centre forecasts
data center growth
Data centers are being built very, very quickly Satellite images of OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas • A year ago, Stargate was a plot of dirt in Texas. Today it is home to 100k Nvidia chips using 200 MW. • In another year, the data center will use 1.2 GW of power. • For reference, El Paso Electric has a peak load of 2.4 GW and serves 465,000 customers.
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
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Vero, un disastro su quasi tutti i fronti.
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
L'ennesima dimostrazione della superficialità delle élites europee. Parlando di AI, intendono LLMs (o tecnicamente, slop generators) e ulteriore deskilling e contrazione del potere contrattuale dei lavoratori.
Una bancarotta intellettuale che ormai dura da decenni.
like big tobacco funding cancer research
