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NH based weirdo - mutual aid, some nerd stuff, gardening, parenting, etc

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d ago

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

please never forget that almost every single societal issue we face today would be solved by equitable access to essential things like food, shelter, medical care, and education, across the entire board, free of obligation

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Solar panels are so popular in Pakistan they’re being used as wedding dowries. That boom is now challenging a power sector that owes billions to China, and exposing snarls in Beijing's drive to dominate the global energy transition.

China’s Coal Past and Solar Present Are Colliding in Pakistan

A wave of clean technology imports is challenging a power sector that owes billions to Beijing, exposing snarls in the No. 2 economy’s drive to dominate the global energy transition.

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Teen at the park has amassed a group of small children to make a ritual circle and raise the dead. This is what life is all about, bringing your kid to the park to learn about necromancy

Obviously “antiwoke gamers” are the #1 most insufferable demographic in gaming but you know who is #2? “Everything was better back then” nostalgia addicts. They only whine about modern popular games and never engage with anything from a studio smaller than EA/Ubisoft/etc

New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever