Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. Data centers are consuming more kilowatts than ever, but the price they pay for that electricity has risen only a little.

you may not like AI, but you will be paying for it:

this is an old graph. it’s only gotten much worse as utility rates around the country have skyrocketed.

sadly, it’s almost certainly a genAI photo. outlets don’t bother with getting actual photos anymore, it’s easier to just fabricate images/perception/reality of an event.

Idk, maybe we should just destroy all the technology these ghouls are using to exploit and enslave us? Seems like a quick effective solution to tech companies destroying the planet and our futures.

Epicureanism, in a nutshell

JD Vance is an investor in a startup that does precisely that. - Acre Trader

if humans don’t sort out their politics/economics within a generation, im afraid it really is the beginning of the end. theguardian.com/…/collapse-critical-atlantic-curr…

The research found that if carbon emissions continued to rise, 70% of the model runs led to collapse, while an intermediate level of emissions resulted in collapse in 37% of the models. Even in the case of low future emissions, an Amoc shutdown happened in 25% of the models.

Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.

this is not the conversation ending truth-bomb some people make it out to be.

scholars have contested the selection methods and conclusions reached in that original survey/article. for example, several of the “successful” countries on their list have since regressed into dictatorships/unrest.

not trying to debate or be contrarian, but I think folks who lean heavily on the non-violence strategy should consider that the success of nonviolent moderate protest movements may have something to do with them being perceived as the more palatable by the ruling class than the violent opposition alternatives.

iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia

burn it all down.

we don’t need these cameras and tracking systems everywhere all the time. they don’t make anyone “safer”.