Starting to see "they don't deserve good faith" reactions to this and the problem I have with that is we have examples of actual good faith negotiations that landed tens of millions of investment into local communities and, in at least one instance, residents responded by voting everyone out.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 16h ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

Hello. If you struggle with maladaptive overachievement, and anxiety about productivity, and you experience relief at the sensation of productivity and difficulty regulating your behavior around demands for you to be productive, that doesn't make you a bad person, and that is not addiction.

Whoa anti data center people are anti renewables too who could’ve seen that coming

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 7h ago

“Michigan is a hotbed of resistance to renewable energy projects. A 2025 review ranks it as the state with the largest number of local restrictions: More than 60 local governments in Michigan passed ordinances, moratoriums, or other restrictions on wind and solar development between 2011 and 2024.”

“Michigan is a hotbed of resistance to renewable energy projects. A 2025 review ranks it as the state with the largest number of local restrictions: More than 60 local governments in Michigan passed ordinances, moratoriums, or other restrictions on wind and solar development between 2011 and 2024.”

WIRED@wired.com · 8h ago

Activist and grassroots organizer Will Lawrence has won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, with a campaign focused on data centers’ regulation and demanding accountability for big tech and AI companies. www.wired.com/story/anti-d...

they dont want edits they want to critique edits

I feel like people who previously focused on being anti-surveillance have really lost the plot on ai by pretending that there isn’t demand for it rather than focusing on its role in current & future police states

the claim: 95% of gpus are idle the truth: datacenters can be online and the gpus inside them can still go mostly "unused" because when a process needs a gpu it reserves the entire gpu. if the job needs 10% of an H100, it still reserves the whole thing. thus the claims of unused gpu capacity

Why 95% of enterprise GPUs sit idle while AI startups can't get compute

Idle GPUs choke AI innovation

techradar.com

the number of folks who jumped to the worst possible interpretation of toni’s interview clips is quite concerning, too many people have let social media and purity culture just melt their brains… it’s one of the most gratuitous & gross examples of toxic online discourse culture i’ve seen in awhile

Toni Schneider@toni.bsky.team · yesterday

Thanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).

The conversation about AI in health stuff is always about the risks of patients using AI. I'm more worried about possibilities like every appointment gets inspected by an insurance company in detail so that if a patient uses the slightly wrong words about something their care is denied.

The cool thing about Bluesky is if you want it to be a sports-less Torment Nexus that just pumps the horrors of the day directly into your brain, it can be that for you

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Someone replied to my post about the Verge quote actually being about sports with a no shit "the country is burning and they want to distract us with sports"

Note date x.com/edzitron/sta...

"Cognitive surrender" or whatever is a skill issue. I offload cognition to the machine so I can do EVEN BIGGER COGNITIONS!

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The whole thing is about abstracting away complexity to places where I don't have to think about it, so I can apply my brain to the work at bigger and bigger scales.

the best vibe coders are not "vibe coding" but have basically a 100% designed spec from the start (incl. with some idea of a testing suite) and the ai is basically just doing implementation work. that is to say, they're PMs. the thing is: most PMs are bad at being PMs, and so are most coders.

A horseshoe crab in a freshwater environment@mienaiknife.bsky.social · 2d ago

I suspect that good designers make good vibecoders cuz they can make up for skills that LLMs lack. Such a person can turn a design into a functioning prototype even if the backend isn't great

Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

it seems bad that any effort to “make bluesky less of a liberal echo chamber” is seen as inviting nazis or even just right wingers to the platform when it probably more accurately means completely unrelated things like cultivating and strengthening the sports community with integrated features

my big takeaway from the Hank Green thing is to note how incoherent the entire discourse is there are categories of computing which are Pure, and which Hank is free to use but other categories of computing which Hank cannot use if a data center hosts the algorithm that promotes his video, fine…

Did not expect Hank Green AI discourse to morph into “he shouldn’t have called the feeling of pleasure/reward at the sense of having accomplished something dopamine”

If everyone is listening to kpop, then the kpop listeners, now consisting of the whole population, necessarily have divergent enough interests that the problem reappears within kpop

If you’re curious about why people are so excited/concerned about the state of agents, this is a really nice tutorial. If you think this stuff is useless and you’re open to changing your mind, this might be interesting!

David P. Reichert@david-p-reichert.bsky.social · 2d ago

Many don't see how much AI has changed recently. Coding agents aren't just chatbots. We can’t deal with the challenges of AI if we don’t understand it. Here's a post to provide some evidence (Claude doing small ML experiments) and form intuitions. davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-hav... 🧵..

Ah, OK, I get this. I think people perceive using an LLM as having long conversations with something that's like a person, but which is flattering and deferential. And some models *do* do that, and that makes plenty of people insane, but rarely anyone who like, uses them for work.

Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another thought: in his statement, Hank Green expressed quite a lot of shame about the "dopamine hit" he gets from using AI. As a non-AI user I don't really know what he's referring to here. Is the AI voice flattering him while also doing his job (presumably poorly)? Because that's big weird.

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

“Hardware-bound attestation is a requirement of this project, not an implementation detail we can simply drop,” The war on personal computing continues apace

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

The EU’s age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.

linuxiac.com

i’m sorry to be so blunt and harsh about this, but i’m deeply tired of seeing myself and my friends/colleagues be harassed by anti-AI people behaving like foolish petulant children on a purity crusade while they themselves are deeply deeply unfathomably unpure

This is utterly ridiculous and I've yet to hear a single problematic thing about any of his usage habits beyond finding LLMs very useful for research in any form (which is what people seem to be actually mad about). gizmodo.com/youtuber-han...

YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use

He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."

gizmodo.com

I don't think this is necessarily a monocausal thing, but we need to confront that "slop" (talking way more broadly than AI here) is popular because a lot of people like it, not because it's being "shoved down your throat"

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

This isn't even like, conspiracism or historical revisionism or anything, I was literally there as this was happening and people at the time were like, "Wow what an obvious fucking con, this sucks," and it's insane to me that that didn't like, stick around in more people's heads.

it's me 🫠@thayet.net · 3d ago

there were definitely early focused efforts to shift public opinion but they were more focused on copyright maximalism. karla ortiz raised ~200k from small artist communities for copyright lobbyists specifically, for example, and popularized a lot of that sentiment/fears in those spaces.

plagiarism is such a funny idea to me, like it's so "we have assignments and grades" coded. like, i was trying to figure out what to make for dinner, and i saw the neighbor making chicken, and now i can't make chicken because i don't want to copy them

I need to underline how egregious this is, because these communities are full of fandom artists, including ones that make an actual living doing art pieces of other peoples' IP. it's "I didn't think Mickey Mouse would eat MY face" meets "temporarily embarrassed vivziepop" to devastating results

it was extremely obvious to anyone paying attention that every single one of these "artist alliance" groups in '22-23 were only serving the interests of major IP holders, many tried to call this out, but the fears of young artists who are already often impoverished are not difficult to exploit.