Surveillance state of affairs. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/09/08
AI data centre finance: building a bigger and bigger bomb https://awful.systems/post/9642127
Big Tech does everything it can to hide its true water impact
Because of Big Tech super-secrecy, "the most honest answer to how much water AI consumes will remain a range of source-specific figures. Their differences are useful evidence. They show that the environmental risk is real where infrastructure places new demand on a constrained water system, while a universal bottle-per-prompt statistic cannot identify where that pressure occurs."
https://memeburn.com/ai-water-consumption-statistics-2026-and-key-findings/
@GrapheneOS
@aphedges @paulshryock
fascists love this one simple trick to destroy confidence in your security project.
way to go guys. what an embarrassing fucking nightmare.
"Oh my god, my AI agents are talking to one another!"
This seems incredibly impressive to anyone who hasn't, at any point in their lifetime, been in an IRC channel that had two misconfigured bots that started talking to each other until someone kickbanned one or both of them and then told the operators of said bots to sort their shit out before letting them back in the channel.
The deaths of 25,000 asylum seekers and the abuse of 150,000 survivors in Libyan detention are now at the center of a push for the ICC to investigate European leaders and Libyan suspects, Cathy Otten reports, for crimes against humanity.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/migrant-deaths-mediterranean-sea-europe
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@glyph This is why I tend to see the AI boosters like I do pick-up artists.
They won't take no for an answer, or leave us alone. They instead try every method of persuasion to get us to just give in.
okay I have successfully avoided responding to any of these directly but after having seen like the TENTH post today saying something like "we don't need to convince you to like AI, the revolution is coming whether you like it or not" I just have to reply, generally, to this whole sentiment: OKAY THEN. IF WE ARE GETTING LEFT BEHIND THEN LEAVE US BEHIND, ALREADY
@broadwaybabyto Here's the same article in archived form so that you don't give that garbage rag any traffic:
A few quick thoughts on why "AI Labs" love having their LLMs do math https://tante.cc/2026/09/07/the-function-of-llm-based-math-proofs/
“Heat kills 5 times more people than official stats show : NPR”
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5724225/heat-wave-death-toll-tracker
> Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat.
RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/117224382426870269
This is a pretty big deal, flying mostly under the radar. It goes to show a couple of things:
The only sovereign nations on earth are the US, China and Russia. The US has just proven that it can debank anyone it wants, with the twitch of a pen, with the exception of those protected by the other powers. There is no legal oversight, no court approval, no way to appeal...just defacto decisions by a narcissist with nukes.
Nobody is safe while these people are in charge. If the US can make a group of Italian volunteers who created a service that was proton before proton equal a hotbed of terrorists to global banks and DNS resolvers with nothing more than "I said so", then y'all...ain't a one of us that hasn't done something a fascist doesn't like.
It's wider than just Thiel. Our own Alan Gibbs was a driving force in creating the Atlas Network, and his daughter (former manager of the Headless Chickens, Straitjacket Fits and 95bFM) ran the joint for a while. They collect money from the very rich and distribute it to hundreds of grubby little front organisations like the FSU, the TPU, the ACT Party etc.
In the old days we would call this the CIA, this is the current privatised model.
I'm now very suspicious of 95bFM alumni.
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