There is a weird trend in the climate and energy advocacy space where someone just becomes a volunteer big tech / data centre defender, and I personally think like 95% of these cases are down to them having become immediately fully reliant on Claude or whatever, and they don't want to give it up

Ok, let me state one step more formally my problem with AI code. You cannot trust it to be more expert than you because you cannot check and verify what it created. It's beyond you. You cannot be responsible for it, nor can the AI. It can ONLY be used as a toy or subset of your abilities.

I don't think Anthropic really meant it this way but what an amazing demonstration of why generative AI's energy consumption is only getting worse, and dirtier. "Improvements" only come from nesting chatbots within chatbots, rather than any fundamental smarter design. It's Bitcoin x 1000

The Texan Ideology: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t... @thebaffler.com

Europe is going to build camp where they will concentrate undesirables before getting rid of them. I wonder if there's a term for that? This is no different than the MAGA plan for White supremacy. The EU can pretend it's better all it wants. It is not.

Israel says it has received the greenlight from Washington to attack southern Beirut. Civilian evacuation of Dahiyeh is now underway.

When the Taliban or ISIS destroy ancient heritage it's proof of barbarism contrasted with European civilization. When Israel destroys ancient heritage it's just self-defense

Eid today.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Been seeing a lot of such graphs in recent years 😬 #BraveNewWorld

Fuck sake, okay you dumb fuck techbros, let me summarize all of science fiction and cyberpunk with the lessons: > AI is very, very bad. > Giving robots weapons is very, very bad. > Capitalism is very, very bad. > Authoritarianism is very, very bad. > AI girlfriends are... *sigh* just don't.

Nell’anniversario della Nakba è importante immaginare un futuro diverso e migliore per israeliani e palestinesi. È quello che fa un gruppo di attiviste ed esperti impegnati nel progettare il ritorno dei palestinesi nelle loro terre. L'articolo di Francesca Gnetti.

Whenever I click and zoom on an image on bluesky, when I zoom out I get sent back to the top of the timeline. Known bug, reported multiple times, still happening. I’m on iPhone.

aside, i lamented to a coworker today "we only had performant software because computers were slow, and had quality software because distribution was expensive and neither of those are true anymore" then i threw in the old joke of "startups actually lose less money when the service goes offline"

Tl;dr: Banks are packaging up massive amounts of AI data centre debt and selling it to institutional investors to offload the risk. I know comparing the AI bubble to the housing bubble is a cliche, but we're One Weird Trick away from redoing the subprime mortgage securities crisis.

Apocalyptic aerial footage from east Gaza City.

ANDV Hantavirus 2026

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

This is terrifying (about AI, childhood and self development) open.substack.com/pub/reclaimc...

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

I think about this all the time.

Infantino tried to get the Israeli and Palestinian representatives to shake hands. Palestine refused, saying “we are suffering” FIFA was supposed to kick out Israel for violating the same rules that got Russia kicked out, but the rules don’t apply to Israel.

Israel’s destruction of Qantara, Lebanon yesterday - ongoing during the “ceasefire” - was so devastating ground waves were recorded for 2 minutes. Israel used 450 tonnes of explosives to detonate Lebanese homes in Qantara. They permanently changed the features of the mountain.

A new, large civilian flotilla is heading toward Gaza. Scale: ~60–70 vessels currently (target 100+), 1,000–3,000 participants from 100+ countries. Route: Departed Spain & France → regrouped in Sicily (Apr 26) → now crossing Mediterranean toward Gaza (some near Crete).

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

you will not lose your job because an AI will replace you. you *will* lose your job because the white-collar criminals driving AI's fraudulent circular financing are going to cause a global financial crisis when the bubble pops though

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

40 years ago at this moment (1:23:45 AM local time, April 26), the poorly-designed Chernobyl Unit 4 nuclear reactor in Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded and partially melted down during an unapproved, poorly-conceived safety experiment, releasing at least 378,000,000 curies of dangerous radionuclides.

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

In order to be worthwhile for investors, AI companies need to simultaneously: - increase demand 100,000x - increase capacity to support that usage - make a profit instead of a loss on each token Which, well, lol.

I'm afraid we wont have to wait until mid-century to see "World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat". The next 1.5 years will likely already show extreme pressures on global food production. Especially if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed and we get a Super El Niño. Both are likely

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

I don’t give af about mass murderers feeling bad for murdering our children. You *are* a monster for mass murdering civilians. You want to feel human again? Expose those who gave you the order to murder. Be a ‘traitor’. Grow a fucking spine. 🧵 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A warning from the economist, Ann Pettifor.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return. Both are war crimes punishable under international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Sorry American tax payers, Israel needs to occupy another people so pay up www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report. WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :) that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

you really thought

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

L’eterno populismo. Perché gli elettori che desiderano una protezione sociale più solida, un’economia più equa e maggiore solidarietà sociale continuano a eleggere governi che producono l’esatto contrario? Perché il populismo autoritario (di destra e di sinistra)

Yesterday, Israel used a triple tap attack to kill paramedics in Lebanon. This means that they first bombed, waited for paramedics to come, bombed again, waited, and then bombed again. It was all caught on camera. There is no peace possible with this. www.instagram.com/reel/DXMzlFy...

Trump slowly evolving into dril