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This "AI is ruining the internet" is funny, infuriatingly and depressingly correct.
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=UShsgCOzER4
Well, except for one (actually) tiny detail, ALL the "tech" people I follow are strongly and loudly worried about AI's dangers to human society, etc. The people described as "tech" people are just AIdolizers with AIdiotic public stances that may genuinely wreck everything, starting with the poorest and otherwise most vulnerable people.
Google and Microsoft now consume more electricity than >100 countries
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-and-googles-electricity-consumption-surpasses-the-power-usage-of-over-100-countries
So that's about half. There are 193 UN member States.
AI, AI aiii, climate change is accelerating. Not intelligent at all.
Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries.Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)
TIL about the design spec for the Citroen 2CV.
It had to:
- transport two farmers
- have enough headroom for those farmers to wear hats
- have controls laid out so it could be driven while wearing clogs
- carry 100kg of potatoes and a cask of wine
OR
- two adult rams 🐏🐏 or three goats 🐐🐐🐐
AND
- transport a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking any
WHILE
- being capable of travelling at 50kph using 3L of fuel per 100km.
“you’re a replicant and everything you remember about your childhood is fake implanted memories”
normal person: [existential crisis]
trans person: “oh thank fuck. That’s a load off”
Well , if you ever wanted to know the type of people who would rally to Hitler in the 1930's, I guess that's the republicans who all shook hands with Netanyahu today. Those who cheer him.
Except unlike the Germans of that time, almost none of which knew of death camps, these republicans are aware of the genocide in Gaza already.
This is not naiveté. This is the acceptance of evil. The transition from protofascism to full fascism has been completed.
There's a whole podcast with some therapists discussing this stuff, and it's awesome:
https://youtube.com/@itsnotjustinyourhead
Two mental health professionals explore how our capitalist economic system impacts our emotional lives. From precarious housing and employment, to unaffordable healthcare, to endless debt — it's not just in your head!YouTube
"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse." ~Herman E. Daly
Economics without ecology is just stamp collection.
Lazy summer days are the best ❤
An artistic liberty sketch for Argent ^^
#UnasArt #furry #furryart #furryartist #furryartwork #UnaPanthera #commission #illustration #characterillustration
Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.
For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.
"The repeatedly applause for #Netanyahu from the right as he seeks to justify with lies & distortions the brutality in Gaza is nauseating. It as if they're cheering for genocide -slaughter of children -starvation of 100s of 1000s. It's repugnant, humanity at its worst."
D Rothkopf
"History will judge us poorly for welcoming Netanyahu to Congress with open arms as he commits war crimes in Gaza."
S Lee
"Netanyahu should be standing in front of a criminal tribunal -not Congress."
J Castro
Honestly, people these days.
A Telegram group was having a chat involving odd bicycle like things from British TV and no-one brought up Supergran.
What's the world coming to?
... Does this make me old?
Good news everyone! CrowdStrike is doing what they can to make things right!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in all recorded history, climate agency says
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/24/sunday-earth-hottest-day-history-climate-00170814
Correction: Monday was Earth's hottest day in all recorded history, beating out the previous record of Sunday
Via Birdsite & YouTube. (Sorry!)
I've wondered how long it would be before someone combined wide-angle cameras with VR to see the world from different perspectives! This is a pretty slick implementation.
Can I get one in Jackalope form, please?
My biggest complaint about the design is neck strain. All the computer hardware is cantilevered off the wearer's face. Ugh! Put that in a backpack or something, or at least mount it to the back of the head for counterbalance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPcI5KxalE
Also I suspect that, unlike when Google et al started crawling the web, most sites just aren't linked to, or link to, other sites. We used to get around the whole web with links, which is how the web was designed, and now… no links. All the big sites rely on search because they wouldn't be caught dead actually *linking* to other sites - theirs is *obviously* the only site anyone would want to ever go to, after all. Why should they give their traffic to some other, undeserving site? 🙄
last boost:An undertold story is the monopoly on search engine *scrapers*. Thanks to DDOS hardcoding, it's essentially impossible to create a new webcrawler. All there is is google, bing, and one or two (forget exactly) chinese bots. It is literally not possible to create a new search engine because it's not possible to scrape the web.
last boost:
An undertold story is the monopoly on search engine *scrapers*. Thanks to DDOS hardcoding, it's essentially impossible to create a new webcrawler. All there is is google, bing, and one or two (forget exactly) chinese bots. It is literally not possible to create a new search engine because it's not possible to scrape the web.
I don't believe in gatekeeping knowledge, especially not knowledge that forms part of our intangible cultural heritage.
Drystone built some of the very first structures on our planet. As useful now as it was then.
So, here's a beginner's guide.
https://www.thedrystonecompany.com/drystone-diary/how-to-build-a-drystone-wall-part-one
#UNESCO #Drystone #Knowledge #Skills #TraditionalCrafts #Perthshire #Scotland
The basics of how to build a drystone wall. Drystone walling guide by professional drystone wallers in Perthshire, Scotland.Kristie De Garis (THE DRYSTONE COMPANY)
Access consolidated remediation and guidance resources for the CrowdStrike Falcon content update affecting Windows hosts.CrowdStrike
Random fursuit photos from the archives.
Rakule as Yeet the dinosaur.
Midwest FurFest 2018.
idea: what if we put a self driving car that can fit multiple people on some sort of track so that we wouldn't need to cool down a datacenter with potable drinking water during a climate crisis to automatically drive the single person vehicle
i bet nobody has thought of this before
🚊
I'm hanging around at a random Bus- stop in Berlin. :3
Thanks to an art- project that is called "Du bist am Zug" ("It's your turn!"). People could send in pictures to have them displayed on different advertisement -spaces.
"When received by the sensor and loaded into the Content Interpreter, problematic content in Channel File 291 resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read triggering an exception. This unexpected exception could not be gracefully handled, resulting in a Windows operating system crash (BSOD)."
IT WAS A FUCKING MEMORY SAFETY ISSUE
AMERICANS OF FEDI, PLEASE MAKE IT YOUR MISSION TODAY TO ENSURE YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE 
You can check Vote.gov for voting requirements and deadlines in your area. 
Do it!!!
#USPol #USPolitics #Vote #Voting #RegisterToVote #VoteBlue
Official voter registration website of the US federal government. Register to vote. Learn the voting registration deadlines and laws in your state.vote.gov
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Also, all the progress that we may have been, or intended to be, doing regarding decreasing energy consumption to save our livable habitat from being eradicated by climate change,
is currently being entirely wiped out by the new AI-farm server halls with VASTLY increased electricity consumption that recently have and will soon be built, to the point that they build entirely new power plants dedicated to just a server hall each because the general power grids can't handle their demands.
So yeah, it's not just the killing of art and trust in any remote human-to-human communication, experiences and education, but there's also pure survival as a species.
Cool, huh?