Thomas 🔭🕹️Imagine if we had investments like this into clean energy, infrastructure like fast trains or into healthcare.
Instead it’s all set on fire for bullshit autocomplete.
Kevin Karhan 
@thomasfuchs that's because #sustainability and #capitalism cannot work together!
- They are inherently ad odds with each other!
Neil E. Hodges@thomasfuchs @kkarhan Also, capitalism is inherently inhumane. >:(
Austrian@praustrian @tk @thomasfuchs I disagree and won't entertain derailing by semantics.
Me: don't confuse clay with gold.
You: I "won't entertain derailing by semantics".
Baloo Uriza@thomasfuchs I'm gonna laugh when this all backfires and it bankrupts a bunch of techbros.
@BalooUriza @thomasfuchs sadly all that #AI bs will be basically useless beyond the raw cables, as one cannot #reuse / #repair / #upcycle the spechalized stuff for general-purpose users.
- Meanwhile everyone who needs some storage or GPU or anything compute related gets shafted!
@BalooUriza Me too! But it’s so frustrating seeing so many “good” tech people propping this shit up.
RenkeSiems@BalooUriza @thomasfuchs The AI industry is burning so much more money than Lehman's that I dread the consequences to come. So much more will burst than the ketamine dream bubbles of some tech bros.
soc@BalooUriza @thomasfuchs Oh, nor worries. They will get bailouts.
Jeff McNeill@thomasfuchs For the Metaverse? LOL
Paul@thomasfuchs hunting zuck for sport should be at most a misdemeanor
Snippety Snap (she/her)@thomasfuchs
I couldn't be happier about my decision to ditch all Meta products on US presidential inauguration day 2025.
Every time I see or hear about Zuck's nonsense, bravado, barbaric business tactics, and absolute disregard for human rights and our climate, I know I made the right decision.
The decision itself was easy. The fallout of total disconnect from people I enjoyed interacting with is a bit more difficult. But fuck it. I can't support that.
Magical Cat@thomasfuchs bullshit atoocmplete is not worst use of all this. "It's all set on fire for automatic factory of politically motivated disinformation in favor of dictatorships to undermine democracy from within" sounds scarier.
Jane@thomasfuchs tbf the CZI BioHub does some pretty cutting-edge healthcare tech. I know it's just Meta PR, but they literally threw so much money and talent at those problems that they really *have* improved our understanding of human biology and disease
Arbres@thomasfuchs Y'know, if people weren't hypocritical, lazy dingbats, they would simply delete Meta.
But oh. So hard because addicted to worthless bullshit.
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millennial falcon@thomasfuchs "compute and clusters and compute and um clusters, but compute"
fuckin hell, the poor little wretch.
whomever preyed on that vulnerable person to get this grift in the way of all his money, well done. you chose a profoundly stupid grift and you should've used something useful so that money would be used to create value. but the execution of it is impeccable. the target genuinely thinks it is his own idea, and that does warrant my admiration.
Joel VanderWerf 🐧@falcennial @thomasfuchs Ironically, Manhattan is tonight covered in a massive cluster of compute, by which I mean gobs of water dumped by climate-change clouds.
@thomasfuchs The mere fact it measures the scale of GW, in energy consumed, shows that basically THIS is the goal of project - to consume as much energy as possible. Why? I have a theory that this is conspiracy to create energy scarcity:
💀 to force return to fossil fuels and other dirty energy sources.
💀 as reason for energy-based dictatorship, where your social rating defines how much energy you can use.
💀 to become energy monopolists and ever more pathologically rich
💀 for political power.
💀 to force return to fossil fuels and other dirty energy sources.
💀 as reason for energy-based dictatorship, where your social rating defines how much energy you can use.
💀 to become energy monopolists and ever more pathologically rich
💀 for political power.
quixote@thomasfuchs "set on fire" is exactly right.
From the guy who got his start perving on his fellow female students.
Imagine if he'd been stopped then instead of "just ignore it."
Laura@thomasfuchs I am so fucking glad I deleted my Instagram account. Good riddance to surveillance ridden trash!
Paul Chambers🚧@thomasfuchs Giving me a little bit of the "Metaverse" hype vibes, so I joined the two. lol.
Benjamin Parry@thomasfuchs Facebook Marketplace was my only stake in the wretched ecosystem. My rationale was that I could buy and sell second-hand items in my local community to support a circular economy. FUCK THAT if this is what it’s supporting. This is what I needed to finally delete my account. Thank you!
Mark Pospesel 
@thomasfuchs this to me is the tragedy of it all. For the last five years or more the world could have invested in things that would matter, but instead we get ShitGPT…
stony kark@thomasfuchs I’m looking forward to seeing absolutely nothing come out of this “effort”. All the highly paid goons will take the money and run, while the products waste away (like the “metaverse”) without users or updates. It’s so, so sad.
Lucian Marin@thomasfuchs Superintelligent autocomplete.
The Crafty Miss@thomasfuchs He should be banished just for using 'compute' as a noun