A surge in new datacenters, each with the power demand of 100,000 households and a cooling water demand of 1,000,000 m³ per year to train AI models on material obtained without consent on hardware now unaffordable to consumers so fascism-adjacent tech billionaires can sell us the idea that any skill is now worthless and in doing so creating the largest economic bubble ever while simultaneously destroying society and environment.

I think that about sums it up.

#genai #llm

Just for context:

A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.

If someone made One Hundred Thousand dollars per year, it would take Ten MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If they made a million dollars a year, it would still take one million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Eat the rich. Tax the rich. Maybe both.

Good news in perilous times.

"World's Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing"

Its not just the largest in the world, its the largest wind powered ship in history, by a lot. A LOT.

So it begins.

This is one, there will be many.
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There is one measure of progress preventing climate collapse, how much we have REPLACED carbon fueled engines. ONE MEASURE. NO OTHER.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/448860

#climate #EU #france

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina. Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez. Norlan Guzman-Fuentes.

Important column from Will Bunch, saying the names of the ICE prisoners shot by a sniper in Dallas. Trump regime refused to release their identities, part of their broader effort to dehumanize immigrants. https://share.inquirer.com/MRUQhX