"By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amounts of electricity and water, and we’re not really adapting to keep pace. This is also occurring alongside a destabilizing climate crisis that’s already putting a capacity and financial strain on aging electrical infrastructure."
AI/LLMs should be shut down world wide as a crime aga. humanity
unbelievable this is allowed to go on after the energy to fuel whole small countries got wasted on utter garbage like crypto that has no legit reason to be
has nothing been learned
tech bros boast about creating disruptive tech because they enjoy burning the world to feed their own sick egos> it's a show of power
time to shut this **** down
but they won't, they'd rather let the world end than offend a tech bro
Fuck me, fuck everything, fuck this whole climate-burning labor-killing fraud. I just want to touch computers, not constantly guard against rogue scams taking over evey aspect of my online life.
For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.
For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:
there is no amount of voting that can remove a corrupt judge, even one openly taking bribes from billionaires -- only the FBI can do that & when's the last time they arrested a crooked judge?
also many of us live in states and/or districts where our vote doesn't count, you may thank the Electoral College created by plantation owners for plantation owners
i did not have that one on my bingo card & yet, in retrospect, all the signs were there
i guess i never spent much time wondering about the source of his obvious long-standing intellectual deficits, i probably just thought drugs or something
but, sure, brain worm works for me as an explanation, i don't think anybody would admit to having brain worm when "i partied too hard in the 80s" is right there... unless there really was a brain worm
we're not talking about every person who ever picked up a parasite, we're very clearly talking about the raving loon who wants my immune-compromised husband dead -- who, in fact, wants to kill thousands, if not millions, by destroying trust in vaccine technology
please don't ask us to walk on eggshells when some of us have been badly hurt by vaccine and/or science denialism
let's try making the real enemy walk on eggshells for a change
how short? Minority Report was adapted from PKD's The Minority Report, a novella, but it was published in book form as a part of a short story collection
or a shorter story is PKD's Second Variety, made into a film called Screamers
in that case, i thought the terrifying & delightfully paranoid short story was less effective as a movie while Minority Report was pretty clearly better as a movie
Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.
He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.
The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.
But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.
while i agree that's a serious risk, the judge can't let " a future maybe" make his decisions for him about a real & present situation
i am hopeful that this judge is serious about this statement, i suspect the prosecution respects that he is because they were careful not to ask for jail in this round when they would've been justified in doing the opposite
it feels like everybody is trying to give TFG every chance & if he still f's up... that's on him
they killed a middle school student so kid is what-- a 12 year old? 13?-- "after receiving a report???"
"they say" is a phrase that makes me think the reporter can't verify there was any f'n gun or maybe it was a cell phone or a bag of Skittles, who knows
"The student was killed before he could enter the school" so the part about bringing a weapon into a class in session was pretty obviously a lie
#ClimateDiary There is a thunderstorm here in Eastbourne just now unlike any I have ever experienced. The lightning is so bright it fills the whole room, with blinds down! The whole sky lit up again and again and again. It’s scary and i am scared of what is yet to come (climate change wise).