It’s been so inspiring to see the growth of data center opposition across the US and the wider world. Taking on the tech industry is bringing communities together — which seems like exactly what we need right now.

It’s been so inspiring to see the growth of data center opposition across the US and the wider world. Taking on the tech industry is bringing communities together — which seems like exactly what we need right now.

The most important part: "Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027."

"Is it difficult coming back?" Surgeon professor Nizam Mamode, who was working in Gaza a few weeks ago: "Yes" "How do you feel when you return?" "I feel quite angry that this country.. is letting this genocide go by and doing nothing about it"

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

TY @theguardian.com for naming the cause of this trend!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

“While the project stands to raze local forests and wetlands, it may also have broader impacts across the province. The proposed data centre is a 390MW operation.” It would generate 6.6% of the province’s emissions and could surpass 10% of New Brunswick’s energy demands.

“If a person came up to me, and they were clearly in distress and sharing their thoughts of suicide, I would be expected to help them, not encourage them to fixate on their depressive thoughts or isolate themselves.” Another terrible story of ChatGPT encouraging suicidal thoughts.

The United States sanctioned Chilean officials who were assessing a proposal to build an undersea cable between Chile and Hong Kong. It wants to ensure South America data flows through cables owned by US companies, giving it the ability to surveil that data.

private space companies are already looking to identify trash sites on the moon

my story was she came repeatedly unglued at me over Covid reporting because she fell in with this misinformation guru bsky.app/profile/ryan...

seeing people share their taylor lorenz stories after her latest blowup, so i’ll just add that last year once we finally blocked one another she started texting people i know suggesting i might be funded by peter thiel to try to discredit me

honestly the steam machine prices are not just ridiculous, but the decision to make it 1509 in canada instead of 1499 is a choice. either way, cad price is above a straight conversion from usd, which makes it feel like we’re shouldering more of the cost of ramageddon.

very funny to google steam machine prices and have it recommend me a bunch of carpet cleaners

people need to let taylor lorenz go. she’s fully lost it since covid. how much more proof do you need?

I've often wondered what "literacy" I am missing and nobody has ever been able to answer what this missing link is...

did people actually like disclosure day? i feel like it was spielberg’s coming out moment as a crank

Si seulement 30% de l'énergie et l'argent que le gouvernement Carney déploie pour forcer l'IA dans la fonction publique il pourrait améliorer substantiellement le bilinguisme de celle-ci et avoir un impact réel sur la qualité de service que le gouvernement donne à ces citoyens

No amount of indoctrination will convince me that LLMs have a place in creative work, communication, or entertainment.

Don’t worry, AI industry. Mark Carney is not literate to read this evidence. Full steam ahead on the AI train!

This. I am sick to death of evangelists claiming my resistance to AI is based on a lack of understanding or knowledge. No, it was doing that research that allowed me to confidently arrive at my anti-AI stance.

Everyone yelled at me when I said this guy was a banker and he’s going to run the country like a banker.

'AI literacy' that isn't critical isn't literacy at all.

Carney standing with an “AI for All” sign with a bunch of medical professionals behind him fills me with so much dread. I hate this so much guys

"AI Literacy" apparently means "I believed everything I saw in Deloitte's blockbuster PowerPoint presentation, why don't any of you?"

'AI for all' (threateningly).

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

These governments and so many other people consider those of us opposed to ai ignorant or ill informed when the truth is we know exactly what ai is about. God knows we do more research on the subject than others

we must poison ourselves — for the economy!

forgive me for bringing a Thread to bsky but this is what i think any time i see ai-generated lord of the rings stuff

The slop will continue until morale improves.

Time for Canadian schools to expand their smartphone bans to include generative AI now too.

AI for all (menacing)

Mark Carney's tenure has been going smoothly, though now it looks like he's going to burn his political capital and Canada's budget on going in all-on on AI even as Canadians' skepticism of it grows (and honestly the economy around it looks increasingly shaky).

door wide open for ndp to get it

good evening, "Mark Carney" was a 15 month long sociological experiment conducted by the IMF. we are now complete with the study. thank you for your time

i’ll be at facct in montreal next week!

This has the potential to derail him because people the more AI is forced on people, the more they hate it. It's not "illiteracy". It's the fact it's being forced on us with no discernible benefit to us. #cdnpoli

Carney se garroche sur l'IA comme Legault s'est garroché sur la filière batterie. Sans garde-fou, on sait où ça mène...

I am very curious what, exactly, about generative AI survives the next three years. The Facebook backlash in the 2010s didn’t make a dent because Facebook was a wildly profitable company, but AI is facing a growing public revulsion without a strong financial footing.

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

Canada is replicating the mistakes of other countries in going all in on AI without thinking clearly about the harms that could be unleashed on society in the process. It was great to chat with @hadrianmk.bsky.social to learn more about Mark Carney’s AI strategy and the many problems it presents.

Such a pleasure to chat with @parismarx.com about the federal AI strategy!

Canada is replicating the mistakes of other countries in going all in on AI without thinking clearly about the harms that could be unleashed on society in the process. It was great to chat with @hadrianmk.bsky.social to learn more about Mark Carney’s AI strategy and the many problems it presents.

my inbox is filled with ai-generated scams trying to get me to pay to have my books featured in fake book clubs it’s annoying, but i got a good laugh at this one claiming to be dua lipa

“industry convinced us to be okay with cars mowing down kids and taking away public space. we can also adjust to all the harms of the product making me a lot of money.”

If even nurses can be made gig workers, who else will be in their crosshairs? @katiejwells.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com how technology doesn’t have to be used against workers, but that’s precisely how it’s being implemented. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/332_...

If you want to understand what the US is doing to Cuba right now as a result of the complete energy blockade since the beginning of the year. apnews.com/article/cuba...