Mastodawn

@mralancooper I was so impressed when NATO just replied with essentially "meh, not our problem". 😂

What the fuck? Why the hell do we want a fucking AI data centre here?
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-03-04-sas-biggest-data-centre-monster-set-to-consume-25-of-durbans-electricity/

SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity

Durban is pressing ahead with plans to build a massive 400MW artificial intelligence data centre in partnership with a South Korean power consortium. It would be South Africa’s biggest digital data centre, burning up the equivalent of a staggering 25% of the city of Durban’s current electricity supply.

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Paul Mason Mar 5

It appears that Microslop have stopped adding any new features to VS Code unless it's related to AI Slop generation. Maybe it's time they change its name to VS CodeSlop...

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Paul Mason Mar 4

@11ty Cutting it fine - you only have 27 days left! 😲

Paul Mason Feb 21

A new season of Scrubs is starting on Disney+ on Thursday, with all the same actors! 😱

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Paul Mason Feb 20

@JenMsft It would be really depressing if we evolved to type faster. 😒

Paul Mason Feb 20

So commoner guy Andrew was arrested for "misconduct in public office" and not for being a pedophile? 🤔

Paul Mason Feb 18

Let me get this straight - a slop PR submitted by an AI agent doesn't get merged, it gets morged? Did I get it right?

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Paul Mason Feb 18

@slightlyoff That explains why so many people have offloaded their "thinking" to confident sounding LLM imbeciles. 😒

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Paul Mason Feb 17

@tanepiper Judging by the last few years, that's not much different to how humans are treated by management.