but let's be real, where is this need to invent harms from data centers and ai coming from? tech companies being evil and unethical and their owners being a bunch of shitheads and the cognitive and economic effects of ai are plenty bad alreayd

Chum 263: Doomscroller chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/2...

passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution

Mamdani: (smiling) we are going to tax second homes because that money can be used to fix pot holes! Haha like Mario kart Dems: Muslim Hitler Must Be Stopped

Chum 262: Zephyr chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/2...

update on this a month out. we consulted w/ a cardiologist who found congestive heart failure, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and an AV block. realistically she has somewhere on the scale of 18-36 months left unless miracle treatments occur. the cardiologist visit was another $1,140 i don't have.

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Chum 261: Morrissey chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/2...

Textually the Butlerian Jihad was a religious and fascist crusade to destroy the means of production to secure an imperial control, and was based on nonsensical visions which for the most part never came literally true. It is the pinnacle of media illiteracy to support this.

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you’re free to ban surveillance advertising but if you support repeal or major alteration to Section 230 you are simply not a freedom loving individual. you are a mouthpiece for Trump’s tyranny

A big reason why this happened, to be blunt, is because Google gained precedent to do so with porn

Chum 260: Fatima chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/2...

Under a Dem president, students at least felt like it was possible to use protest to convince Biden to change his stance. The response was deportation of students. A protest movement is not going to to change the policies of DT and the threats used under Biden are far worse.

For the same reason most other industries being right up against homes would be bad: industry makes noise! There should be pretty clear regulations around how far away data centers are built based on the noise they're expected to make. 2/2

My basic claim about data centers is "They are like most other normal industries" not "They are perfect in every way and won't ever cause any problems." A few people have asked about noise. Haven't looked into them but my impression is that some were built stupidly close to homes. This is bad 1/2

Here's what nobody in B2B sales tells you about the horse: → The horse is the white of the eyes → AND dark within → It's BOTH. That's the whole point. If your Q2 strategy doesn't account for the duality of the horse, respectfully, you are not operating at the altitude this market demands.

Chum 259: Crossroads chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/2...

if you want my actual thoughts as to what the future *might* look like with AI i recommend you read my science fiction novel KRAKOOM!!!. if anything i probably *understated* things in several areas at the time of writing but i consider that a feature not a bug chumstory.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/k...

i am strongly on team "software with no bugs in it" but if you asked me to rigorously explain why i could not

there's gonna be an orgy of exploits and patches, both enabled by Claudes of various power levels, and then at the end of it we'll find out if we get to live in a world with software that has no bugs in it or if we get to live in a world with no software in it at all

this is a cute anecdote and i'm sure mythos is Genuinely Quite Good but without any details as to what the sandbox environment was i have no idea how impressed i'm supposed to be and thus i am defaulting to this being a somewhat creative reframing of true events for marketing purposes

it's also chock full of some of the cattiest exchanges you'll ever read. case in point:

people think the talmud is like the protocols of the elders of zion but it's 9,000 pages of "if a donkey kicks a lamp and sets a hay bale on fire, who pays for the hay" in every possible combination of owners of the donkey, lamp, and hay bale

thats not good !!! thats not a good thing !!! spreading misinformation exclusively to piss people off is a Bad Thing !!! am i losing my fucking mind what is going on !!! this website has become Owning The Libs But Woke !!!!

if you are posting apologia for this I think you should permanently log off the social web, which also makes use of data centers

I think it's important to try and say true things and to try and not say untrue things.

i am barely a computer toucher at all but even i understand that, if at any time any two websites are having a problem at the same time, the problem is that amazon broke us-east again, and not the websites themselves

i just think it's funny they still call them tweets

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

IMO its not a lack of hobbies thats the problem, its that every hobby is now a GIG. That thing you do for fun? Well monetize it, run a tiktok, take commissions, get that 2nd or 3rd source of income going on top of your 9-5. The things that we once did for joy are now part of our survival

when you first see death the kid you think "this guy cannot be him. there's no way." and then over the course of the rest of soul eater you realize that no. he is him. he is the guy

Chum 258: The Tacony Warehouse Raid chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/2...

Chum 257: Mrs. Marshall chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/2...

People celebrating (unverified) reports of data centres being hit with with missiles, on Bluesky, which helpfully only runs on a few old Pentium 4 boxes in someone's garage and not in, say, data centres. Some of you people really don't understand a single thing, do you.

imagine you wake up tomorrow and literally no technology works. no telecommunications of any kind, no power grid, no water treatment, no payment systems, no banking, no traffic signals, no aviation, no public transit, no energy infrastructure (…)

datacenters are not “one evil guy’s big evil computer for him to do evil things with”

“blowing up all the datacenters” would indirectly cause mass death at roughly the scale of WWI

In general, I'm annoyed at the idea that it's some sort of retreat from grandeur to see the brain as physical. You have, between your ears, the most intricate machine ever created, about which we are still discovering basic construction facts. Why does magic make it better?

half of anthropic's research program amounts to saying things like "the model obviously ACTS like it has feelings" in a very detailed way that elevates this from a low status to high status claim

if sam altman is liable for openai's chatbot failing to prevent a user deliberately prompting it into into a suicide sounding board, then i could be liable for that time my best friend messaged me in distress about nihilism, i explained my personal philosophy, and she killed herself the next day

I just got around to reading this and I strongly recommend the video version too. It seems like the most intuitive thing in the world and folks who dump on it are making up a version of the experiment that's not here (and which the researchers explicitly disclaim).

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

You will buy nothing, you will own nothing. Disney would salivate at something this anti-consumer. This would revoke the first sale doctrine in the US, kill the used media market, and reduce any ownership of what you buy to mere licensure. Love video game licensing? Then this policy is for you.

it's interesting how the principle of "you should show the player something cool quickly when they start the game" has changed over the years. notably over the ps1/ps2 era the "cool thing" often was a lavishly animated CG cutscene, which has mostly aged poorly except for kingdom hearts 1.

Samuel "Gallows" Royce. International hitman and member of the top brass of the PMC "Red Calf".

Chum 256: Patricia Gilly chumstory.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/2...

oh are these attacks why every company's npm shit is getting hacked and leaked