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‘This Maniac Must Be Stopped’: Netanyahu Condemned Over Massive Beirut Bombing ↗︎
↳ The headline says it all. — added 6:24am on 30/09/24 ❧
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants ↗︎
↳ Interesting! Anecdotally developing this website I ran into some model (validation) issues with Ruby on Rails, my best known language and framework, and the first suggestion from Claude was helpful, but got further deluded and hallucinogenic as we debugged further - suggesting the same thing over and over with different broken code. — added 6:23am on 30/09/24 ❧
More academic publishers are doing AI deals ↗︎
↳ Corporate third parties will effectively render academic research pointless. — added 6:11am on 30/09/24 ❧
Are we underestimating global warming? ↗︎
↳ If ‘we’ refers to the landed hegemon, yes. Many of us are worried sick about the destruction of nature and the suffering of animals and humans due to the already irreversible damage caused by ‘them’. — added 6:01am on 30/09/24 ❧
UN General Assembly 2024: Diplomats walk out in protest against Netanyahu address ↗︎
↳ Those that stayed are very telling… — added 5:30am on 30/09/24 ❧
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Sloths on Brink of Extinction As They Struggle To Adapt to Changing World ↗︎
↳ The species loss, and death toll, of selfish humans climate change is already devastating. It’s only getting worse. — added 12:44pm on 29/09/24 ❧
Yes, Actually, Individual Responsibility Is Essential to Solving the Climate Crisis ↗︎
↳ There is something to be said here for: voting green, buying from “better” companies, educating each other, doing things locally, going to rallies, not eating meat etc. but individuals still have very little power compared to corps. — added 5:28am on 29/09/24 ❧
TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion ↗︎
↳ I wish we had better than ‘x bro’ to describe the despotic behaviour of capitalist shitheads. — added 5:22am on 29/09/24 ❧
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Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday ↗︎
↳ Capitalists micromanaging and making workers lives miserable - they get off on it. — added 3:54pm on 28/09/24 ❧
The “power” of AI ↙︎ — posted 28/09/24, tagged as AI, education, LLMs, power use, heat death, climate change.
Today I have some off the cuff thoughts about global heat death – revisiting an early theme (actually, the earliest in this particular incarnation of dispatches). Yesterday I felt happy about expanding numbers of women-identifying YouTube creators – yes I still watch YouTube, I know ... who were interested in the intersection of technology and creativity – not because this is (or should be) rare, but because “in my day” the dominance of sexist men in that particular niche was incredibly overwhelming. But one of these creative sorts, you know how the algorithm goes – particularly with YouTube, a story for another post – popped up talking about creating a bespoke AI, fit for purpose if you like. As part of this video was discussion of the role of creativity and AI (re: “AI stealing all the creative work”) and, further, the rising electricity demands of the AI industry. This got me thinking of things to really truly te...
Google Listed as Sponsor, Host of Israeli Military Tech Conference ↗︎
↳ Inescapable genocide supporters. — added 6:55am on 28/09/24 ❧
“Y'all Cannot Actually Be This Stupid”: Ethel Cain Defends Chappell Roan's Election Stance ↗︎
↳ Roan’s take is probably one of the more enlightened celebrity takes I’ve seen, of course the American “centrists” have issues with it. They love genocide. (And would be far right anywhere else in the world) — added 5:38am on 28/09/24 ❧
Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate ↗︎
↳ Or, uh, just unionise? — added 5:15am on 28/09/24 ❧
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Argentina’s poverty rate soars to nearly 53% in first half of 2024 ↗︎
↳ Poor people convinced by propaganda and hegemony to vote severely against their interests suffer the consequences. This is what happens when the right wins. Terrible things. — added 7:40pm on 27/09/24 ❧
Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel ↗︎
↳ There are a small handful of sane people in politics. — added 7:13pm on 27/09/24 ❧