Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

AI's toast. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8/9/2261833/-Cartoon-Sam-Altman-s-AI-bubble-burstin-blowout

Why the push for more #NuclearPlants? Blame it on #BigTech (and #AI and #cryptocurrency)

Tech companies want #NuclearPower. Some utilities are throwing up roadblocks

Story by Spencer Kimball
August 9, 2024

"Tech companies are increasingly looking to directly connect data centers to nuclear plants as they race to secure clean [sic] energy to power #ArtificialIntelligence, sparking resistance from some utilities over the potential impact on the #ElectricGrid.

"#DataCenters, the computer warehouses that run the Internet, in some cases now require a gigawatt or more of power, comparable to the average capacity of a nuclear reactor in the U.S.

[...]

Amazon's nuclear agreement

"Co-locating data centers next to nuclear plants already faces controversy.

"In March, Amazon Web Services [#AWS] bought a data center powered by the 41-year-old #SusquehannaNuclear plant in #Pennsylvania from #TalenEnergy for $650 million. But the agreement to directly sell power to the AWS data center from the nuclear plant already faces opposition from utilities American Electric Power and #Exelon, who have filed complaints at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-companies-want-nuclear-power-some-utilities-are-throwing-up-roadblocks/ar-AA1oyZCH

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/10/microsofts-copilot-studio-ai-leaks-your-business-info-internally-and-externally/

Three important points here ⤵️

⓵ Scientists from across academic disciplines are extremely concerned about climate change

⓶ Scientists do NOT believe that "advances in technology will largely solve climate change"

⓷ Fundamental changes to society, politics, and economics ARE required

The takeaway: Unless we have system change, climate change will destroy us.

LEARN MORE ➡️ https://phys.org/news/2024-08-scientists-climate-extreme-high-engagement.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#libobscura #logo/icon contest!

which one do you like the most?

Poll in comments.

Weather forcast: High 101
My brain: 🎶 According to the Kinsey Report / every average man you know / prefers his lovey-dovey to court / when the temperature is low / but when the thermometer goes way up / and the weather is sizzlin' hot / Mr. Pants, for romance, is not 🎶

I don't know what the answer is, but I'm feeling sad about the nature of this platform.

I've been finding myself quite frustrated with Mastodon lately.

I'm hooked on the multi-column interface and genuinely like a lot of the people I engage with on here, but I'm really feeling the ways in which the all-or-none privacy levels induce low-grade nastiness and a lack of genuine social connection.

Margaret Kimberley not pulling any punches here (not like she ever does). I don't think she's wrong though. Thus has it always been, in my experience.

@mindstalk has posted a few thoughts on Dreamwidth about pricing for delivery apps vs. traditional food delivery by restaurants.
https://mindstalk.dreamwidth.org/2024/08/04/delivery-over-time.html
"Pizza: multiple orders carried a short distance by an employee, with a fixed charge to encourage you to go big for efficiency's sake. Apps: outside driver going to random stores and waiting to pick up your food and carry it a longer distance, with percentage charges that defeat any impulse to be efficient."

Thinking that Threads is ok to use because Twitter has been taken over by a fascist seems similar to thinking Bush was an ok president because Trump was so terrible.

if you believe everything undergone by marginalised & oppressed people in society is good by virtue of being undergone by them, then you believe oppression is good, and should be continued

A family member upgraded their car recently so I got a closeup look at the new Subaru Ascent. Lots of cool features but it's 1) huge, and 2) has a massive tablet where the console controls should be. At least the stereo controls are analog, but everything else is just a big screen. I don't like it at all, and this video confirms what I've suspected: all this "advancement" is making things demonstrably more dangerous and less robust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7GU9lDpq8

It gives me no pleasure to hear that the damaged Anglican cathedral in Christchurch will be "mothballed".

Millions and millions of dollars from the church and ratepayers have been wasted to placate a dying set of boomers who valued a building above humanity. The Anglican bishop of the time knew that people meant more than a building, and got drummed out of town for saying so. And a crew whose driving force was nostalgia, not devotion, managed to tax every one of us in the city to fund their vision, whether we were Anglican or even Christian.

This should cause shame and reflection for the leaders who called for rebuilding - but it won't. Some are dead, and the others will claim we all need to pay more.

What an enormous waste.

the AI industry is reaching new levels of evil

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216215/palantir-microsoft-azure-ai-defense-partnership-surveillance

#tech #ai #palantir #microsoft

#Signal was warranted again, and as always they gave the only data they could give: time of registration in Unix miliseconds, and time of last connection in Unix miliseconds.

yet another reminder that you can't give away data you don't have in the first place.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

While I've managed teams (and even a company) before, there is something about my current job that has made me really embrace and enjoy everything involved with managing. I actively enjoy all the opportunities to take care of my team and help them succeed at a deeper level than I felt in past jobs.

It's probably some combination of the great team I'm leading, and my own maturity in my career. In any case, it's something Kyle from 15 years ago wouldn't have understood at all.

Hey #SouthFlorida
Staring a microtextbanking group to try to flip some #Florida congressional seats from red to blue.
Drop your email and zip if interested -
https://forms.gle/wDVGc4Tn5tGr98fP7

#Miami #USPol #VoteSaveAmerica #VSA

Just turned on NPR and there were people discussing whether or not COVID was "endemic" and "predictable", and, yes, someone acknowledged that "endemic" doesn't mean "good."

But also... there are, like, some things about COVID that *are* predictable in good ways. For example masking predictably decreases transmission rates, as does enabling people to take time off of work.

What if we, like, used that predictability for something?