Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
Haven’t once snagged my sleeve on our kitchen door handle when leaving the room causing me to embarrassingly jerk back suddenly since the Russian data centre got hit Really makes you think
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
wild how since that Russian data centre went offline I haven’t heard a peep from the trukk not munky crowd
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if you are a political opponent of donald trump, he will encourage his followers to kill you. if you are a political ally of donald trump who ever disagrees with him, he will encourage his followers to kill you. for some reason we can't speak about this plainly
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
1. This software did nothing 'on its own'. The human who approved its programming and release is responsible. 2. These programs are based on scraped government website instructions and millions of illegally obtained novels without any attempt made to distinguish between fact and fiction.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
Big Tech used to make glib promises about sustainability and moving towards a greener future. But today, Google is using more energy than ever—they added one New Zealand's worth of energy consumption between this year and last.
Plainly the ability to create, and to do it out of nothing (as gods are said to do), *terrifies* these people. They’re stealing true created stuff to make a cheap fake “autocorrect” version—locking creativity into a cash register to which they’ll sell you metered access. At an ever-increasing price.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d agothis actually gets at what is at the root of a lot of this- these are people with creative dreams and no creative talent so they have turned their holy grail into the ability to vampire other ppls work into a thing they can take home to mommy and claim credit for
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
The same company that doesn't pay artists seems to always find the money to pay this jackass. If you're still using Spotify... why? Pretty much every alternative is better in every way.
Joe Rogan Renews Nine-Figure Spotify Deal
Spotify and Joe Rogan have entered into a new multiyear licensing agreement, continuing a relationship that began in 2020 for his hugely popular podcast.
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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d agoMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
Never fond of "history will judge this harshly" comparisons but my goodness does this look like a graph that will feature in so many future history, geography and economics textbooks. If there is a future OFC.
Jason Furman@jasonfurman.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is what crowd out looks like.
The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.
Well this was the lesson of Citizen Kane, right. Devote your time to developing monetisable skills, & foreswear joy in order to do so. This is the essence of a meaningful life. That's why he cried out on his deathbed 'I wasted my life fucking sledging'
Obvious answer is Lost - can’t even recommend those first two amazing seasons to people knowing what comes next. And I mean next - season 3 starts abominably and the show never regains it’s heights
Nev Fountain@nevfountain.bsky.social · 7d agoWhat TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.
Obviously never, ever trust nostalgia, but seriously you'd just find a website that'd take you to an IRC channel or an email chain of people who had your weird niche obsession and no strangers every came up to and started trying to mount a reasonable-sounding defence of eugenics.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last wk.we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
Let’s be very clear: there is value in automating tedious and repetitive and dangerous tasks; there is value in delegating certain work to our machines that can do the work tirelessly and much faster.