Robert ReichSunday Thought: The Horrifying Truth About Trump's Cage Match https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-trumps-cage-match?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Olivier Roux (moose)
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“I mean, your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let's blame the people with no power and no money and these immigrants who don't even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —I miss Ian Banks.
ansuzToday I learned that there is an AI data center being built in the Indian city of Raipur, where I used to live.
Raipur is very hot (Wikipidia says the record high is 47.9C), and I'm pretty sure that doesn't take the effect of humidity into account. It wasn't always this hot, but it gets a little worse each year and that has added up.
The majority of the city's electricity is sourced from coal power plants, and for a variety of reasons its grid is not especially stable, with particularly frequent blackouts during the rainy season. That often means that there's no AC during the most humid and second-hottest time of the year.
It is dry year-round except for those few months of monsoons, when the local groundwater reserves are replenished. Despite the intensity of those storms, there have been progressively worse water shortages every year. I've done a lot of rooftop gardening there to reduce the urban heat island effect, and I've watched all but the most heat and drought-resistant plants wither and die. At times water was being brought in by tanker trucks and there just wasn't enough for both human use and the whole garden.
I find it difficult to imagine a worse place to build an AI data center, and yet here we are. They are going to burn coal to power the AI chips and cooling rigs during heat waves and water shortages that are already literally deadly to the people living there.
This is the sort of thing people are justifying when they talk about how much more productive they are thanks to their spicy corporate autocomplete. The anger that I feel is not some abstract moral high ground, but a visceral reaction to having gone outside in deadly climate conditions to spread an insufficient amount of water on my dying plants.
When they say that AI is the future, this is what that actually means.
Ged MaheuxIf anyone out there with deep pockets would like to sponsor @Iconfactory or hire us for design work and help us keep developing the apps and art you love please get in touch.
I hate to be all doom and gloom on the verge of #WWDC but here we are. What a way to celebrate our 30th, right? 😬 Boosts appreciated.
« Vous êtes une chaîne biaisée et malhonnête. Désolé, on arrête là » : une interview de Donald Trump accordée à la chaîne NBC dégénère
Le président n’a pas apprécié des questions posées par la journaliste Kristen Welker, notamment, sur l’Iran et le fonds « anti-instrumentalisation ». Des problèmes liés à la météo ont ajouté des difficultés à l’entretien, que Donald Trump a fini par interrompre brutalement.
Cf mon post précédent… 🤬 quelle bande de crétins criminels…
Après la canicule, le gouvernement réduit le budget destiné à l’adaptation au réchauffement climatique
Le fonds vert, qui permet de soutenir les collectivités territoriales dans leurs investissements au service de la transition écologique, est menacé d’une réduction de 162,5 millions d’euros, soit une baisse de près de 20 %.
Dans quelques décennies, on se demandera « mais pourquoi personne n’a rien fait », comme pour l’amiante, la peinture au plomb etc.
Quand Annie Genevard, ministre de l’agriculture, invite BASF à faire blanchir l’un de ses herbicides
S’adressant à une assemblée de producteurs de blé, la ministre a encouragé le producteur d’un herbicide, classé perturbateur endocrinien, à présenter des « méthodes d’évaluation alternatives » pour obtenir une autorisation de mise sur le marché.
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/06/02/immigration-l-union-europeenne-se-dote-d-un-regime-draconien-d-expulsion-des-etrangers-sans-papiers_6696028_3210.html
“Fortress Europe”, eh? More like “Fuck you, Europe”.
“Fortress Europe”, eh? More like “Fuck you, Europe”.
Immigration : l’Union européenne se dote d’un régime draconien d’expulsion des étrangers sans papiers
Outre un renforcement des sanctions contre les déboutés du droit d’asile, les Etats, le Parlement et la Commission autorisent la création de centres de rétention à l’étranger pour y renvoyer les migrants en situation irrégulière.
Dan MorenThe App Store was supposed to be a safe and friendly place for people to get software, but under Tim Cook's leadership Apple has abdicated that responsibility, seemingly in favor of generating revenue. This is the *first* thing John Ternus should address in his tenure as CEO. https://pxlnv.com/linklog/deepfakes-app-store/
‘How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart’ – Pixel Envy
Samantha Cole, 404 Media: On the morning of December 4, five ninth grade girls, all 14 or 15 years old, showed up for class at Radnor High School. By 8 a.m. — the sun had been up for less than an hour — it felt like the entire school already heard what happened the night […]
Will DormannRemember the early days of Uber and Lyft, when rides were dirt cheap because the companies were operating at a loss in order to capture the minds/wallets of the masses?
The rug pull in the AI/LLM world when the companies adjust pricing to actually make a profit is going to be spectacular. Especially when you consider the numbers of people / orgs that are addicted to or dependent on such technology.