"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
It really does feel like a mere few dozen people are destroying the entirety of the world.
I feel like midlist SFF is both vitally important and uniquely threatened right now because the midlist is where you find most of the queer, PoC, and otherwise marginalized authors. As well as a lot of really exciting books trying new things! Stuff that's not a "safe bet" but often a great read
![At the AI conference, Altman also downplayed concerns about the water datacenters require.
“Water is totally fake. It used to be true. We used to do evaporative cooling in datacenters, but now … we don’t do that,” Altman said. “You see things on the internet, [like]: ‘Don’t use ChatGPT. It’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever.’ This is completely untrue – totally insane.”
CNBC reported that “some newer data centers no longer rely on water at all”.
The director of the Southern New Hampshire University office of sustainability, Mike Weinstein, told the Guardian he was skeptical of the argument from Altman and other AI advocates that the power such infrastructure demands is justified because the technology will help alleviate global problems.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreigjs5sp4wghtshht6odoolmdjdwkheda767t2qkpz53ybq2bymq24)
At the AI conference, Altman also downplayed concerns about the water datacenters require. “Water is totally fake. It used to be true. We used to do evaporative cooling in datacenters, but now … we don’t do that,” Altman said. “You see things on the internet, [like]: ‘Don’t use ChatGPT. It’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever.’ This is completely untrue – totally insane.” CNBC reported that “some newer data centers no longer rely on water at all”. The director of the Southern New Hampshire University office of sustainability, Mike Weinstein, told the Guardian he was skeptical of the argument from Altman and other AI advocates that the power such infrastructure demands is justified because the technology will help alleviate global problems.
Effective Altruist blogger Andy Masley is single-handedly responsible for creating this scoffing line among billionaire tech goblins (notably a bunch of leftist accounts here seem to repeat it too)
Water consumption issues are not just real: they're crippling
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In a sane world, our universities would be suing this company into the ground.
Unfortunately, many of them probably think in order to stay "relevant" or whatever, they need to develop partnerships with these plagiarism-as-a-service companies instead
we are
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(if you were curious)
80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey
80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear
80% off is a going out of business sale
please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u
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5 things I like and 5 oomfs to do the same! (No pressure)
Finnish folk dance ✨️
Longsword fencing ⚔️
Old forests (& conserving them) 🌲
Linguistics 📚
Dismantling the patriarchy 🔥
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THE DREAM. Finland's current fash government is making it increasingly difficult to make art...
okay you know what we're doing this
why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread
In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
Digitaalinen itsenäisyys -kansalaisaloite.
Kriittisten digitaalisten palveluiden rakentaminen suomalaisten ja eurooppalaisten toimijoiden varaan on välttämätöntä itsemääräämisoikeuden, turvallisuuden ja demokratian vahvistamiseksi.
www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/16...
digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi
Complete and utter insanity in the capitulation to the Zionist lobby.
The British Museum besides stealing West Asian and Palestinian history is now actively erasing it.
metro.co.uk/2026/02/15/b...
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
Why are so many platforms punishing adults for wanting to be adults instead of just making parental controls and telling parents to monitor their own kids.
Why is discord rolling out a "teen by default" mandatory ID system. Why the fuck do you need that information. Why are you making this my issue
Callynge me oughte
Pigeons in center of a magical circle
Powerful magic
A group of green crocheted frog purses in various states of finished, with one up front reaching towards the camera
A large green frog purse waving?
A selection of various pink frog coin purses, and a pastel pink rainbow fish coin purse.
A stripey pink fish coin purse
Tryin to sell 20 frogs today to try and get on track for some of these surprise bills flowing through the ether today... I'm at 2/20 sold
I also gotta get fish on my website - if you're interested in a fish just shoot me a DM
www.figmentpudding.com
A drawing of a tiny deer-like creature known as a sycafawn. It has a large set of horns that resemble sycamore seeds. Its entire body is covered in leaf-like structures that are green, yellow and pale orange in colour.
Doodled up a little #Flowerpunk species, the sycafawn!
One of the tiniest members of the unguligrowth group of magical creatures, they reach a height of just a few inches. They live in and around sycamore trees as the name suggests, disguising themselves as seeds.
#Art #CreatureDesign
what are we reading???? I just finished Lia Amador's wonderfully Cuban diaspora-inflected rom-com Witch You Would and then somehow fell into a partial Wimsey reread, though I've got Meg Elison's forthcoming Founding Fathers queued up too.
Oh wow that sounds amazing!!
it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us
meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after
I've had some bad luck with my reading choices lately (quite a few mehs and DNFs) but I read Henry Hoke's Open Throat on Sunday and it was great. Verse novel from the pov of a mountain lion in LA!
Good morning! I’m drawing a Neolithic pig cauldron
Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
![“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday.
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreiet46krrk7ovnqxsd6vr7ogw2lgame43jsqw25u2ygi5el5i5toom@jpeg)
“Good afternoon. My name is [redacted] and my wife and I have been at OMDC since April 15 2025,” reads a handwritten note, wrapped around a lotion bottle that was thrown by a man held captive inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC) on Sunday. “It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor,” the missive continues. “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.
Mari this is BEAUTIFUL!!
