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Great work from Foxglove — UK government sheepishly forced to increase estimated carbon emissions from data centre usage by... 100 times https://www.ft.com/content/0c8bc0a9-63e5-4739-a91e-f07189b45f20?syn-25a6b1a6=1
AI data centre emissions vastly underestimated, UK admits

New projections raise forecasts of climate impact by up to 136 times

Financial Times

A bloody day in Gaza…
Nothing rises above the sound of pain, and nothing compares to this suffering.
Lives are lost, dreams buried beneath the rubble, while the world only watches.
Gaza doesn’t need words… it needs a living conscience. 💔

#gaza #gazagenocide #gazaverified #palestina #gazaunderattack #GazaNeedsYou #fedraid

Thames water paid £1.4 Billion in dividends to shareholders, while lobbying for permission to dump raw sewage into rivers while applying for a bailout from the government and while putting bills up.

This is how the private sector brings improvements and efficiencies to public services?

#renationalise

This week the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant accused the Chinese of stealing the intellectual property of US AI-labs 'on an industrial scale'...

I mean really you couldn't make it up.... the development of AI has been built on the wholesale use & theft of intellectual property as part of its 'training' - I guess no-one has ever pointed out to them the old truism: 'live by the sword, die by the sword'.

It's just one more incidence of the US' rampant political hypocrisy!

#AI #China #US
h/t FT

Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

I've summarised the first chapter - Making sense of it all - of my new book - You Don't Know What You're Missing - in my latest substack so you can get a feel for the book in case you want to get yourself a copy ahead of publication on June 4th.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/making-sense-of-it-all?r=1cw8pl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/116459049191900624

Friends in Gaza, please tell people you might know who could take advantage of this.

#Gaza #GazaVerified #Palestine #physics #astrophysics #science #research #university

This is fucking hilarious. @parismarx keeps the schtick going the whole way through.

https://disconnect.blog/on-the-abdication-of-chief-prophet-tim-cook/

#TechWontSaveUs

On the abdication of Chief Prophet Tim Cook

A message to the Apple faithful

Disconnect