“Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.” Charles Dickens eviscerating the investment class, from Our Mutual Friend (1865):
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
Friendships meant everything to me as a child. I worry today’s young people are being robbed of that | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Friendships meant everything to me as a child. I worry today’s young people are being robbed of that | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
We sat in the park, laughing for hours, talking about nothing. Today’s childhoods are digital – and the result is an epidemic of loneliness, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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2/2 And for those in Europe, Mid-day, 1821. Especially if it's as gloomy where you are as it is here! From Caspar David Friedrich.
Turns out everyone hates data centers but the billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The datacenter backlash is bringing the entire political spectrum together – against big tech billionaires
The movement against datacenters is uniting Americans because they perfectly illustrate how a few individuals hold all the power to control decisions that affect our lives
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People are against smoking, alcohol, and sugar. but who was there for you in tough times? broccoli?
This is tragic and terrible. It is, I wrote, a story from which few emerge looking clean. And that is still the case, including with much of the discussion over the last few hours. RIP x.com/BBCNews/stat...
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Ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row found dead https://t.co/TAJLaIvQtv
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Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.
xAI will start removing its foul, "temporary" methane generators between now and July 2027, and is meanwhile working to "reduce environmental impacts" of currently-functioning ones. BS that is fuel to Justin Pearson and @keshaunpearson.bsky.social's inspiring fight 💪 www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Anger Over Data Centers Is Fueling a New Political Movement
Justin Pearson, a Tennessee lawmaker, has become one of the loudest voices amid a growing national backlash against the pollution and politics of America's AI buildout.
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In The Atlantic’s Books Briefing, @boriskachka.bsky.social explores two works with animal narrators that teach us something funny about human beings:
Two Unexpectedly Hilarious Kafka Stories
The animal narrators in these works teach us something funny about human beings.
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"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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Yes. badfaithtimes.com/learning-to-...
Learning To Live With Elon Musk's Depression
One man's mood should not determine the course of human events
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Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 9mo agoPlain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
New York will stop issuing permits for new large-scale data centres in the state for one year, according to an order signed by the state's governor
New York stops new large data centre projects for year
New York will stop issuing permits for new large-scale data centres in the state for one year, according to an order signed by the state's governor.
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💧 Ten million told to save water. AI wasn't asked. Thames Water's hosepipe ban hits 10m+ customers, the same week UK datacentres admitted their water supply isn't sorted. 🔗 news.sky.com/story/thames-water-announces-hosepipe-ban-for-over-10-million-customers-13565594 #AI #WaterUK #CriticalAI
Eight areas of England at risk of drought - as Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for millions
Met Office figures show that parts of England saw the longest unbroken spell of no recorded rainfall this century. Watering gardens, cleaning cars, filling up paddling pools or topping up hot tubs usi...
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THE TRIAL is conventionally understood as a critique of bureaucracy but the true meaning is rather more complicated from my perspective. There is a strange, rarely commented upon, religiosity to Kafka’s works. 1/x
Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Public to decide asylum cases as Mahmood pledges to speed up decisions
The Home Secretary will set out plans for a new independent body made up of people from a range of backgrounds with training similar to magistrates.
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I just supported this case! Tell the UK government that pandering to Trump's new best friends, the big US tech companies, is NOT what we the people want. Stop Destructive Data Centres Donate via @CrowdJustice #AI #AICosts #AIHarm
Stop the Government forcing through Destructive Data Centres
Foxglove is a non-profit which exists to make technology fair for everyone. They are co-claimant in the case. Global Action Plan is an environmental charity which works to improve the health of peopl
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Plans are afoot to site an AI Data Centre & Battery Storage Facility up the road from me in the North Devon countryside, there's a gazillion reasons why this is not welcome, and you all know what they are already. So if you'd like to help support our objections please sign (and share) the petition:
Sign the Petition
SAY NO TO DEVON DATA CENTRE
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