“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”

🎓 @ilovecomputers

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate

I don't really enjoy watching so many people with vast wealth and power realizing in real-time that things are interconnected in ways they can not understand, predict or even model

I would just like a economic system that takes care of everyone bc we absolutely have the wealth/food/etc to do that, and that position is painted as the unrealistic one, despite their solution failing often more than once a decade, often by stupid decisions of shockingly few people

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116176109080132380

Think about this the next time you casually use AI to do something you could easily have done yourself. Think of it like driving a hummer to go to the store down the street and leaving the engine runningv24/7. #AIIsKillingThePlanet