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techbro with philosophy degree working on global state machines that sync as fast as physics allows 1 block = 1 my post caused cognitive dissonance
“an opportunity for banks to retain and develop their customer relations” ECB admitting that without mandating the digital euro, people will go elsewhere and the banks will become irrelevant. They’re trying to avoid becoming blackberry in an iPhone era.
European Central Bank@ecb.europa.eu · last mo.Together we will strengthen trust in money and the banking system, says Executive Board member Piero Cipollone in a Federcasse lecture. The digital euro would preserve the role of public money and ensure banks remain involved in the payments ecosystem link.europa.eu/hvbXR6
I don’t think bonk and dog $ get enough credit. They’ve done more for getting regular ppl using pki than pgp, rsa, and the infosec industry in all of its existence. It’s a reason state growth problems had to be tamed with exhaustive engineering. Now we have fast magic beans youtu.be/AqKFBEvwqqg
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graham steele@grahamsteele.bsky.social · 2mo agoKraken has the distinction of being the first crypto company to be granted a master account at the Federal Reserve. Not a great state of affairs that the central bank's payment system can be used to facilitate transactions in a dog-themed meme coin called "Bonk." www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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The Linux Foundation@linuxfoundation.org · last mo.AI agents need a native way to pay. Today, we announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation to help enable community-based innovation in open payments with initial support from 40 member organizations and institutions. Learn more and join the effort: https://bit.ly/4eYdqJI
Apparently the robot’s designer gave WIRED the exclusive on this launch, who then betrayed him by publishing this. The commentary of the situation resonates with me. When I was in high school / college I found these publications to be not just a view of the tech landscape, but even inspirational.
Boone Ashworth@boone.bsky.social · last mo.Look, if you show off your robots's fingers by having smooth jazz play as they softly curl around a wine glass, turn off a light, unzip a jacket, and gently fondle some grapes, people are gonna think this is a very specific kind of robot www.wired.com/story/the-1x...
The list of institutions embracing crypto has increased a lot in a year joinopenstandard.com/blog/introdu...
@skywatcher1600.bsky.social · last yr.You understand im actually doing so, right? Because it sounds like you are being sarcastic and trying to suggest im being unreasonable. Im serious. Any institution that embraces crypto has at minimum destroyed its trustworthiness, if not its legitimacy. Theres no argument that will change that.
In a way, this is true. The world spent roughly $1.5 trillion to launch all non-SpaceX satellites. SpaceX did the same amount for $50b. Had policy built cheap launch capacity as SpaceX did, the ability to generate $1T in surplus wealth would not exist.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.
Oh no now we have an abundance of spaceflight, satellite, telecommunications, and AI (and the Ontario Teachers Pension is getting massively wealthy from their early SpaceX investment so the teachers benefit as well). This shouldn’t exist.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrillionaires shouldn't exist. What Elon Musk is costing us, by me: www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is now set to be $11B richer because of their early SpaceX investment. So the spillover of being able to generate massive wealth in the US is actually making Canadians wealthier as well. We should punish this with more US taxes.
Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 2mo agoElon musk becoming a trillionaire demands higher taxes on the wealthy. All of his wealth is because the benefits he gets being based in the USA. Time he and others pay for that.
As a reminder of what AI enables, someone recently used it to one-shot the mechanical movement of a Swiss watch in JavaScript
Robert Green @robogreen.bsky.social · 7mo agoyes, and the good news about transport is it gets me places i need to go. to buildings that i live work and play in. made using products from various industries. remind me what AI does?
Bro who faded AI says there’s no measurable outcome as people are literally one-shotting precise mechanical movements of Swiss watches and 747s in JavaScript now
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoChris asked a lot of really great questions, and gave me space to talk about the more than a trillion dollars sunk into AI for no measurable outcome, and where all that money was flowing to and from. Really great conversation.
Blockchains did this and achieved sub basis point effective spreads
Tuffy@smtuffy.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy most radical belief is exchanges data should be free
AI doomers BTFO with one weird trick github.com/model-checki...
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 3mo agoOk, let me state one step more formally my problem with AI code. You cannot trust it to be more expert than you because you cannot check and verify what it created. It's beyond you. You cannot be responsible for it, nor can the AI. It can ONLY be used as a toy or subset of your abilities.
Tbf Meta saw Google Glass and was like “yeah what if we did it with Ray-Ban tho” and it sold 7 million pairs last year www.wired.com/2013/12/glas...
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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo agoit’s funny that Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI etc saw what happened with the Humane Pin and thought “we gotta get in on that”
50% of companies report costs of US AI models as a challenge to adoption. Several are switching to Chinese models. China semis index is up only. Open question if states would be better off if more compute and energy capacity was here
Bobert@bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat economic benefit does a state receive for “luring data center developers”? Please explain.
I was at the tile store the other week and a lady was showing the staff her chatgpt designed bathroom I don’t think the tech billionaires forced her to do that lmao
🌊🌊TsalagiWarrior🌊🌊@cherokeewarrior.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI is being crammed down our throats because TechBillionaires have invested billions in AI and are scared to death AI will fail and will take them down financially. So boycott everything AI starting with Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok. And block and shut down all data centers.
To put this in perspective, the water main for a city near me ruptured. It lost ~20 million gallons before drain-off. Unmet demand for water until fixed (6 days) was 55 million gallons. This was back in December and no one talks about it anymore. I think we’d be fine.
I hate data centers. It’s absolutely awful I can buy a box with dual 25 gbps NICs, and run it in a temp controlled environment, with redundant fiber loops and enough egress that my home ISP would ban me for life It’s terrible, I can use this box to telecommunicate data globally We must stop this
A single one of my shower thoughts is equivalent to a trillion user-years of AI queries in water usage terms
qdot@buttplug.engineer · 3mo agoNo one talks about why data centers take so much water LLMs run on shower thoughts, and the data centers must keep a stream of steamy water spraying gpus 24/7 Without the showers, LLMs just have regular thoughts like everyone else currently not in the shower, and would have no sellable value
Posting this on a social network that runs on data centers goes so hard
@sparrow64.bsky.social · 3mo agoFun fact, agriculture uses a lot of water. Food is a necessity. A data center is a burden on society.
Bsky in the 70s would have been like “what we boiling pools of water for? So you can watch TV and cool fucking beer?” time.com/archive/6845...
Not sure if there is a nation state that heavily benefits from convincing US constituents that their own bandwidth and compute capacity needs to be limited or dramatically reduced but if that was the case it is certainly working
Jeff@rogue576.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey @tinakotek.bsky.social , EVERY OREGON FUCKING DATA CENTER needs to be removed. FUCK THAT SHIT. Unless you want to pay my fucking electric and water bills. Remember folks, when it comes to fascist capitalism the Dems are fully on board with that shit. They're on the phone with fascist money.
Anyone remember those turtle DSL commercials? I feel like if bsky was around back then they’d be siding with the slowskys. “What do we need a data center for, who needs more bandwidth and lower latency? Who cares about loss of availability?” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slo...
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Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo agoI think the data center backlash is also spooking a lot of folks, and that’s not going away either because data centers provide a lot of negative externalities and very little benefit to local communities “we’re gonna make your lives worse and more expensive”: somehow, not a popular message
It’s not a rebrand. Machine learning is AI. Always has been.
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3mo agoCompanies doing such cool machine learning work probably shouldn't have been so quick to try to cash in on AI-hype, including rebranding existing features and products as "AI" and attracting the ire of consumers who are fed up with the genAI fascist techbro plagiarism machine crowd.
Data center moral panic is the new nuclear energy moral panic
scooty mcscoots@scooty-mcscoots.bsky.social · 3mo agodata centers are basically modern fracking. huge externalities, all borne by the local communities and not the companies ruining fucking everything while profiting from it
Google's Text-to-Speech API cost $0.00003 per request to use. I may be wrong, but, AFAIK, there is no way with regular dollars to make a payment that small. I believe this only works with stablecoins and I'd otherwise have to may some massive markup to payment providers.
eggnog slut@deus01.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy would you use them for payments we already have regular dollars
I see this sentiment of “first generation to grow up outsourcing their thinking” often and man as a dad of a toddler I’m just not seeing it. With neurotic millennial parents and AI my son’s generation seems to be intellectually out accelerating ours and totally gobsmacking the boomers.
The Parable Of The Broken Overton Window@broken-overton.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're on track to create the first generation of humanity ever that grow up learning nothing, having outsourced their thinking to dogshit extrusion machines. The product being forced on all of us is as great a threat to human civilisation as climate change.