Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Venga, como tengo un ratito, voy a traduciros el famoso Hilo del Bar Nazi, publicado en Twitter el julio de 2020 por Michael Tager. Va a partir del próximo tuit y, aunque no lo entrecomille, son sus palabras, no las mías, obviamente. Pero es una historia universal que todo el mundo debe conocer :)

An excellent response by the band, and a clear-eyed acknowledgement that "institutional inaction is moving citizens to personal risks". Indeed it's the subtle but, once internalized, unbreakable realization that none of us are free until Palestine 🇵🇸 is free. Palestine is truly the litmus test.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 2d ago

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere There lies his crown in water deep Til' Durin wakes again from sleep

Lo que ahora llamamos "cámara de eco" antes era "la vida normal" que se basaba en que los nazis, ni su mensaje, ni su propaganda eran aceptados en ninguna parte. No sé en qué momento comenzamos a pensar que lo correcto era abrirles la puerta de los sitios que siempre han querido destruir. 👇

Miguel Anómalo@miguelanomalo.eurosky.social · 2d ago

No podemos llamar cámara de eco o burbuja de izquierdas a todo lo que no esté invadido por propaganda nazi. Es como llamar a una casa en la que nadie está enfermo una burbuja de salubridad y que se entienda como algo despectivo.

Varios matices sobre esto: ⚠️Las propietarias no aceptaron ni 25-30€. Y denuncian que se valló el terreno antes de comunicarse la expropiación. ⚠️MS ha retirado escombros de amianto sin las medidas de seguridad obligatorias y ahora han modificado el PIGA para ocultarlo. ⚠️ Está abierto el plazo de ⬇️

Hannibal Lecter 🦋@hannibal.bsky.social · 2d ago

¿Pero lo de expropiar no era cosa de los comunistas? El Gobierno de PP y Vox en Aragón expropia terrenos para construir una base de datos de Microsoft a 2 euros el metro, cuando sus propietarios pedían 25/30 euros. "Prioridad extranjera" www.eldiario.es/aragon/econo...

Cuando viralizamos cositas de traducción, ya podríamos recordar más a menudo los mocasines saltarines con la piel de dos mastines y no tanto el portón y el sicansíos.

Ai Pardiñas, dásme a vida!!! ❤️‍🔥

Well well well, would you look at that

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d ago

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

Debería ir apuntando as anécdotas dos turigrinos. Onte un grupo deles: - No os parece que cuanto más caminamos la catedral está cada vez más lejos? E eu con cara de "Estades camiñando en dirección Vidán, iso é exactamente o que ten que pasar".

OMG

“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter@bedubble.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t make me tap the chart

Pero bué, que hai agora 20 anos os incendios seica eran porque a Xunta le exigía el gallego a los brigadistas e a funcionar

"My VCR just copied the movie on its own. I dunno how that happened" Journalists: VCRs can now autonomously copy movies, should we be concerned?

O presidente do Parlamento recibiu onte á familia de Moncho Reboiras para pedirlle amparo e que non chegue a aprobarse a proposta que identifica homenaxealo con delinquir. Varias capas de interese nisto, que resumimos aquí.

A familia de Reboiras pide amparo a Santalices fronte á proposta do PP que o sinala como terrorista - Praza Pública

O irmán do militante da UPG asasinado pola policía franquista en 1975 solicita nunha reunión ao presidente do Parlamento que "impida facer efectiva" a iniciativa na que os populares equiparan con deli...

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Cada vez que teño que abrir Windows recordo a dicotomía sistema operativo/sistema inoperante

"Structurally clean of modern poisoning tools" You mean like the poisoning tools that you're feeding with books so you can continue to do more poisoning? You want unpoisoned books so you can poison them?

❗ El Comité para la Prevención de la Tortura señala a España por exceso de fuerza de la policía y maltrato en las prisiones

El Comité para la Prevención de la Tortura señala a España por exceso de fuerza de la policía y maltrato en las prisiones

El informe de este organismo europeo advierte de la la escasez de médicos en prisión, con más de 100 vacantes a nivel nacional, y graves deficiencias estructurales de la asistencia en salud mental par...

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Surely someone else has made this joke, but I haven't seen it, so whatever, running with it.

Enrique Murillo, a propósito del sello de traducción humana impulsado por @acetraductores.bsky.social sellodetraduccionhumana.ace-traductores.org

It's heartbreaking that on the eve of the debut of a project into which so many wonderful, passionate, talented, dedicated artists have poured their emotion and abilities, that the project's reception has been marred by someone(s) so willfully reckless with the reputation and work of their peers

Gegant manifestació avui a Palma. Mallorca reclama menys turisme i més vida

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

Que che alaben as traducións nas feiras é unha sensación marabillosa que dá azos para seguir adiante, máis e mellor. #xl8

Bos días xentiña 🙋 ¡¡¡Feliz dia da Patria Galega!!!✊️

Esperta do teu sono, fogar de Breogán.

Daquela Xunta que o tentou ficou o soporte institucional que aínda hoxe fai que o 25 de xullo sexa, oficialmente, Día Nacional de Galicia en virtude do primeiro decreto da historia do Goberno galego, ditado tendendo pontes cara ás Irmandades da Fala 🔗 praza.gal/politica/dia...

As always, new devs get it in the shorts twice with these things: not only are companies laying off (meaning they don't have openings for new devs), the jobs that ARE available are going to be snapped up by the people getting laid off, meaning we're essentially reaching a point of zero new blood.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know that in official numbers (often extracted from WARN notices), contractors aren't counted as cut employees? So the games industry bloodbath is even worse than being reported. Big ups to Rebekah for covering what many game workers already know: it's past time we fight for our dignity.

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle's $1.65bn in hidden off-balance sheet debt, and how I fear a subprime data center crisis is brewing thanks to private credit funding the AI buildout with pension and insurance funds. youtu.be/bTwnn-5TpmQ?...

AI companies are hiding more debt than you think | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

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Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...