@wajajan

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Philosophy student. Incurable pessimist. McCarthy & Tolkien enthusiast.
Systemic problems cannot be solved at individual level.

Beautiful performance from Topuria in the fight for the LW champion's title against Oliveira. Incredible Round 1 knockout. Joshua Van's performance against Royval was amazing as well, great standup fight, brutal Bantamweight scrap.

#UFC317 #topuriaoliveira #UFC

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well."
—Ivan Illich
@Solemarc @nixCraft Truly, ol' Zuckmann is behind the curve.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

Always read the terms and conditions, folks.

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to Facebook’s servers.

The Verge

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

Here's the actual impact.

"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

The New York Times

Polar night ✨

#MastoArt #watercolor

If you need a timeline cleanser this morning ...

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/russia-ukrainian-children-abduction-war-crime

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

The Guardian