Pre-gaming* to watch the elections later. (*Eating Sour Wild Berry Skittles 'til my mouth is raw and tastes like blood.)
Please share. My sister and niece lost their home to a fire earlier this year, and my niece needs school clothes. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
So, how many data centers do they need? When will they say they have enough of them and stop building them? How many books will they destroy to feed them? How much precious resources will it takes to keep them running? How long do we prioritize data centers over human life? To what end...?
They're shredding the books. Because only humans use books, so they don't give a shit. www.youtube.com/shorts/WYSiE...
AI Companies Buying Books
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Love to my local library folk who have approved and purchased every single book I have ever requested.
Big, serious question that I wish I could scream and have anyone that can help answer it: How do we save the books from the data centers?! I'm going to ask people in the meatspace as well. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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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It’s that time of year again. Teachers, THANK YOU for what you do. If you need help stocking your room this year, please drop a link to your Classroom Wishlists in the comments! I’ll get as much as I can, and there are always some great members of the community who chip in too!
Jesse Watters thinks sexual assault in the military is a joke. Brian Kilmeade said he thinks homeless people should be straight-up killed. Greg Gutfeld thinks of himself as funny.
Balls. If I had known 'China' was gonna come up so much, I'd have kept a tally.
...was that the skyline of Toronto in the middle of that hearing...?
I had a fitful sleep, so I gave up... And this is what I'm greeting the day with, to my great delight. Excellent thread.
Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3w agoone thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
It's the 5th of July, folks. How're we doin'? Are all digits accounted for? Are we hydrated...?
So, they're mad at advice to tune air conditioning to 78°F. They're not mad that they're paying to cancel renewable energy projects that would decrease the need to rely on oil and coal. They're not mad that data centers are popping up everywhere, sucking electricity and water.
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I fulfill some legal obligations. (Also, this is a Father's Day post. I'd like to note that I only remembered because Luke Skywalker mentioned it in the wee hours.)
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2mo agoyou are legally required to like and repost this
Socrates drains his cup and slams it down: 'And another thing—!'
Imagine you had so much food in your house that, no matter have hard they tried, your family couldn't possibly eat it. Then, imagine what would happen if you continued to buy and hoard more food, filling cupboard after cupboard. You'd be considered mentally ill Why is this never applied to money?
'Power (unless it be the power of intellect or virtue) has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures...' -Charles Dickens, "Our Mutual Friend"
Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
I don't know why it is, but curling up with a horror novel soothes my chaotic li'l brain...
Jeremy C. Shipp@jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 3mo agoHey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je... bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
I speak British well enough to know that today...was kind of hilarious.
For all of it, this has been an...exciting study in human nature, I suppose.
Went to sleep thinkin' about the election in Hungary... When I woke up and checked in on the world, I was giddy before coffee. Between Artemis II and Magyar's victory, there's some air for a little joy.
You can be literally as far from him as humanly possible, and that motherfucker will still fucking yap at you about himself.
Billionaires are a cancer on our world. It causes mental illness.
I won the No Kings lottery with the folk I was next to. Had the most stimulating conversation with a sociologist, veterans, and a nurse. There were bubbles floating everywhere... Kids were fighting a tree with sticks... A tiny yorkie thought she was a sled dog...