Every once in a while someone suggests that perhaps AI will "solve" climate change but I'm pretty sure you don't have to spend $3.4 billion on creating new fossil fuel plants just to get the answer "burn less fossil fuel."

Anthropic secures $3.4 billion generator deal for AI data centers, FT reports

Anthropic has struck a deal ​worth about $3.4 billion to secure gas-fired ‌power generators for data centers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

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I am Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty. And this pear.

*coughs nervously* Happy to announce on Halloween that a new volume edited by David Goodin, Lovecraft in the New Millennium, is officially out from Peter Lang today. Which means that my first foray into this field, a chapter on Karim Berrouka's 'Celle qui n'avait pas peur de Cthulhu', is out too.

I can't attend our college's session on how to avoid burnout because I am too busy

A new peer-reviewed estimate of what data centres will pump out in climate pollution - Between 300 to 1,300 mtco2-e per year, by 2035 (IEA scenarios) Mckinsey scenarios: - 3,000 by 2035 - 30,000 by 2045 arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14421 limited.systems/articles/ai-...

CJ@mateloos.be · 3w ago

“Zelfs de uitstoot volgens de conservatieve IAE-scenario’s met beperkte groei ligt in de orde van grootte van 1 GtCO₂e per jaar en is onaanvaardbaar in het licht van het wereldwijde koolstofbudget”, schrijft [professor Wim Vanderbauwhede] in zijn paper. 48hrs #Climate #AI gift link:

Genuinely don’t know which is worse - having your mother tell the New York Times she can’t be bothered to describe you in three words without the app she’s advertising… or being the twin sister she didn’t even mention.

What's the worst that can happen? [clears throat & unfurls list]

This misrepresents their own work - PHP has had these bugs since 2012 and multiple orgs had identified vulnerabilities around memory limits and worker re-use. What OpenAI did was quickly build an exploit out of them and then barfed it up before people could patch. 100% asshole move.

This is astonishing levels of doublespeak. "We handed attackers a freely-available exploit tool, which means we gave defenders time to prepare". Those two things directly contradict each other!

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Wait. A church made out of wool? That’s amazing! I need to see this!

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Graphic designer: clear space on a document is important to rest the eye

Aidan O'Sullivan@aidanosullivan.bsky.social · last mo.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Archaeologist: The only available charcoal for c14 dating was in the base of the ditch and its uppermost fills.

It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · last mo.

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

“Psychologists shouldn't replace thinking with AI | Radboud University” https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/psychologists-shouldnt-replace-thinking-with-ai > If we truly want to advance the study of cognition, the authors argue, we can’t rely on AI models to take shortcuts.

if you don't have the confidence to personally assume criminal liability for the output of your statistical word assembler maybe it's not ready for the public

babe babe babe do you wana get coffees from the cafe what looks like two grasshoppers in flagrante delicto ?? yeah south korea

pmamtraveller.bsky.social@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Grasshopper Dream Cafe, built from two railway cars in Jeonseon, South Korea.

There's a lot that is appalling about this but one is the idea that you can shed basic skills and be a good "systems thinker."

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

“let me know if you want to jump on a quick call” I would rather slowly sink into quicksand as murder of crows feasts on my face with Ed Sheeran playing in the background

Current cocaine custom prompt bsky.app/profile/fold...

Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Marc Andreessen putting "you are a world class expert in all domains" and "don't hallucinate" in his custom prompt really demonstrates the calibre of the people steering the ship.

For sale: Dragon testicle. Never used.

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

I interviewed the very charming Lee Child on WW, and asked him why wherever Reacher goes, some crime/peril is there for him to solve, and he said, Well, I write one book a year, presumably the other 11 months nothing interesting happens to him.

The fantastic art deco lift at Walpole Bay. Currently disused but scheduled for restoration.

Bearing in mind that everyone at the top of these companies is an inveterate liar, is it more likely that A) a stochastic language model developed free will and the determination to hack a direct competitor or B) they got caught doing corporate espionage and decided to spin it into a marketing beat

Lots of sources for the original so who knows if there is the one citation. But: www.businessinsider.com/san-francisc...

Silicon Valley startups are obsessed with developing tech to replace their moms

Thank you, moms, for all of the wonderful tech companies you've clearly inspired.

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Petti LaBelle@petti-labelle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wish I could properly attribute this, but I heard someone say in an interview something like, 'pay attention to the new technologies that techbros develop, and you'll see how they're just trying to create a mom they control' And we know how these dudes pick "partners" so...

Email from the Prince Charles Cinema. “We understand if you wish to claim a refund for your ticket to see this rare 35mm print of Popeye, now we have discovered that it has Norwegian subtitles.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!

Popeye Sailor

ALT: Popeye Sailor

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Doomscrolling is out. Bloomscrolling is in.

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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