Mastodawn

Greg Vernon 5d ago

stux⚡️5d ago

Incoming!

Greg Vernon Mar 15

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Mar 14

Centralisation makes abuse cheap. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive and cost-prohibitive. That's why the influencer business model doesn't really work in the #Fediverse. Here you can't buy sentiment. But many try (and waste money while trying, good ;)

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Greg Vernon Mar 15

Minimus Mar 15

cavē Idus Martias! #bewaretheidesofmarch #minimuslatin

Greg Vernon Mar 15

saljam Mar 15

this ai bubble is going to burst any minute now, and we all know what that means: cheap data centre rack space in huge quantities.

can we use server racks to grow salad instead of swindle? i set out to find out: https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/

Greg Vernon Mar 15

nixCraft 🐧Mar 15

Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies https://www.theolympus.net/13531/

Washington House Bill 2515, which aimed to make data centers pay for their own grid infrastructure and use clean energy, failed in March 2026. Despite passing the House, the bill was defeated in the Senate following heavy lobbying from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. They will keep using clean water and electricity but bill needs to be paid by locals.

Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies

Washington state is home to about 126 artificial intelligence data centers. These data centers evaporate millions of gallons of freshwater each day to provide cooling, but at the cost of draining local resources. The rapid expansion of these data centers strains regional drinking water supplies, as well as increasing blackout risk due to the high...

The Olympus

Greg Vernon Mar 14

MikeDunnAuthor Mar 13

Greg Vernon Mar 11

BoredomFestival Mar 11

Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months

Greg Vernon Mar 9