EmK 

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Middle-aged ginger with Marfan syndrome, which makes me look much like a scarecrow. Socially anxious, friendly, fiercely anti-fascist and anti-bigot. Fuck AI. And nazis. And tech bros. And tech bro-created nazi AI, etc...
LikesFLOSS, music, nice people, animals
UsesLinux, OpenBSD, XFCE
OccupationGadabout
EmK 5d ago
nixCraft 🐧5d ago

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
EmK 5d ago
Terence Eden5d ago

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure

#Solar

Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure

The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

GOV.UK
EmK Mar 13
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Mar 13

Letter from the owner - our stance on generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/letter-from-the-owner-our-stance-on-generative-ai/

#AI #GenAI

Letter from the owner - our stance on generative AI

Generative AI seems like it's everywhere now right? So here's a letter from the owner (me, hi!) formally setting out the GamingOnLinux stance on it.

GamingOnLinux
EmK Mar 13
Fight Chat ControlMar 12
UPDATE: The European Parliament voted today to *end* untargeted mass scanning of private communications, firmly rejecting the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years! Next: trilogue negotiations w/ Commission and Council.
EmK Mar 12
Ajay IyerMar 12

We should keep a list of companies that have fired employees en masse to replace them with #AI . When the #aibubble bursts, these slop-stricken corpos are going to come begging for human talent once again.

Each time they post a "job opportunity" on LinkedIn, someone can post the number of employees they previously fired.

#fuckai #aislop

EmK Mar 10
Fight Chat ControlMar 10
🚨🚨 URGENT: Multiple political groups are meeting NOW to discuss their voting on the Chat Control amendments TOMORROW. They are being lobbied massively by industry and NGOs. Chat Control hurts everyone. The template has been updated, take contact now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

EmK Mar 5
Show threadArtstoriesMar 5
@nixCraft Let's address the elephant in the room: we all know that never ending growth is impossible. We all know that consumerism at the current rate is not sustainable. We all know how harmful the current system of capitalism is and it is about to break. We need to think what we can do to change things towards a more sustainable future, towards something that actually benefits society and the planet.
But we all run happily towards the end because change is difficult.
EmK Mar 4
European News 🇪🇺Mar 4

Media must stop normalizing the far right

Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

https://www.politico.eu/article/media-stop-normalize-far-right/

Media must stop normalizing the far right

Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

POLITICO
EmK Mar 4
Existential ComicsMar 3
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
EmK Mar 3
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Mar 2

so 3 courts + US Copyright Office say you cannot copyright nor patent anything made primarily with LLMs because automata aren't human.

#SCOTUS won't review these rules because copyright is meant to protect human creations, not software or automata.

this may mean #AWSlop #Microslop are “de-copyrighting” & “de-patenting” their own proprietary software as they let automata “code” 🧐

❝ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted.

The Verge