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Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal ↗︎
↳ Does this feel to anyone else as though it’s the dawn of skynet? Or is that just the feeling of the climate collapsing. — added 5:55am on 21/09/24 ❧
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CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% ↗︎
↳ Yeah so they got a raise and we still get a pay cut, because buying power and “inflation”. — added 9:14am on 20/09/24 ❧
Orbit by Mozilla ↗︎
↳ From their TOS: “When you submit your own content through the Services, you continue to own the rights to that content. You grant Mozilla a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, sub-license, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display the Inputs for the purpose of operating the Services.” — added 6:17am on 20/09/24 ❧
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs ↗︎
↳ I’m not sure they’ll care, they are frequently called worse. The added benefit (for them, duh) is they destroy our mental health and the planet by forcing us into open plans. — added 6:00am on 20/09/24 ❧
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents ↗︎
↳ *Planet killers* that just string together human authors existing sentences in pseudo random order. Cool. — added 5:30am on 20/09/24 ❧
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Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second ↗︎
↳ I’m sure Elon and his sick cronies will care about this… — added 6:05pm on 19/09/24 ❧
‘The bear at the door’ ↗︎
↳ A deeply rotten industry. Head to toe. — added 7:13am on 19/09/24 ❧
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December ↗︎
↳ Mozilla (corp) is really increasingly a garbage fire. Which is terrible for the internet. — added 5:27am on 19/09/24 ❧
Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs ↗︎
↳ It’s almost like this lie is perpetuated by capitalists to exploit your labour. — added 5:24am on 19/09/24 ❧
Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies a day after pager attack ↗︎
↳ In what way are these genocidal lunatics different from Russia? Oh they’re the “right kind of white” according to the US. Imperialism incarnate. — added 5:15am on 19/09/24 ❧
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The Australian tenants who are charged to pay their rent ↗︎
↳ Rent seeking from renters - approved by the ALP (professional landlords first, MPs second), as usual. — added 7:26am on 18/09/24 ❧
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Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week ↗︎
↳ They want workers to be miserable and backed into a corner. The “job market” only serves the capitalist. — added 6:06pm on 17/09/24 ❧
Our future: The AI panopticon ↙︎ — posted 17/09/24, tagged as AI futures, surveillance capitalism, billionaires, despotism.
Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire capitalist class, bloated on the extracted value from wage-slaves, say things just to get a rise out of people? You’d be wrong. Something deeply more sinister has intoxicated these immoral exploitative swollen overlords. The act of telling the truth about their agenda. Sadly, rather than this being an opportunity for “the masses” to deploy critique, the hegemonic media quickly shift the subtle messaging in their articles and op eds to support the new sociopathic trend before anyone even realises what is happening. [This morning I shared a link](https://acb.boo/) about Ellison’s new AI panopticon. Literally, a gloves off surveillance capitalism powered by planet killing AI servers to ensure that every. single. worker. is squeezed for juice like an industrial orange juice maker. This “revelation,” enough to make Jeremy Bentham’s preserved head spin [2], saw Oracle co...
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour” ↗︎
↳ They aren’t trying to hide it from you - they are saying it loud and clear. You will be a wage slave and you will be grateful. — added 9:21am on 17/09/24 ❧
Donald Trump Rushes to Fundraise Off Apparent Assassination Attempt ↗︎
↳ “But, we have to get over it. We have to move forward.” - Trump, about a school shooting, but here of course the money signs flash. — added 7:17am on 17/09/24 ❧