This is not a joke... A press release from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:

"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"

... while the government also pushes for full-blown investments in, and adoption of, "genAI" (e.g. here ) with absolutely no mention of the environmental costs.. which are surely orders of magnitude worse than whatever a server uses to store old pictures, and for what?! 🤦🤦🤦

#GenAI #SavingThePlanet

And since the 'The Mainstream Media Aren't Reporting This' brigade are out.

The following UK newspaper websites aren't reporting the death of Al-Jazeera journos in Gaza:

Daily Express
Times
Daily Mail

It's the MOST Prominent article on the websites of the following:

The Guardian
The Independent
The Telegraph

It's also being reported on the BBC

The whole "The MMS are trying to suppress the truth" thing is shitty propaganda when the right do it, and it's shitty propaganda when the left do it

I asked my German friend to draw me an informational diagram.
“Venn?" he asked.
I replied, “As soon as you can.”

Happy Birthday John Venn!

(via @dgar)