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I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?". I don't really care about their answer, but the speed at which they ask ChatGPT allows me to assess how much I care about their thoughts and opinions on other matters.

Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.

In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.

This is AI.

This is Big Tech

These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resources.

UN News

Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”

God damn it...
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks | TechCrunch

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.

TechCrunch
Does anyone know if #gotosocial supports verified profile fields? With my masto account I have it set up to put my codeberg, personal website, etc, in a nice green box with a checkmark next to it using rel=me links on my site. I've updated those links but I'm not getting any updates on my profile and I can't reliably determine if this is something GTS even does.