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Or don’t and support the union’s boycott
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/rei-union-workers-call-for-boycott-of-co-ops-biggest-annual-sale/
#REI
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116584415344514295
Or don’t and support the union’s boycott
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/retail/rei-union-workers-call-for-boycott-of-co-ops-biggest-annual-sale/
#REI
Today’s pepper harvest, from last year’s plants .. still just tiny peppers .. but tasty!
This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified
The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html
@gerrymcgovern And people were concerned about Bitcoin power usage.
Now we're mainstreaming something so much worse. Bad for people, bad for animals, bad for the planet. Good for CEOs.
I don't care what medical benefits may come from AI. It's simply not worth it.
Got this spam today and it made me chuckle. Clearly, there's a human on the other side of this, and someone who might actually not be so terrible (despite the fact that they are sending out spam). You can see on the left side of the fake message from FedEx is some text that was, I assume, accidentally pasted in to the message.
Or is this all part of the scam .. ??

Artificial intelligence note-taking tools intended for use by Ontario doctors provided incorrect and incomplete information or demonstrated "hallucinations," and were not evaluated adequately, the province’s auditor general says in a new report.
A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial.
This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary.