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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought”

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-finances

> In short, this is because data center components age rapidly, either made obsolete through rapid advances in technology, or broken down over years of constant, high-powered usage.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hmmm… using text outputted by Argh Studios Storyteller ( https://arghstudios.com ) as input to Sora gets interesting results

https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s%5F68ea6424f4bc8191b9f798c45c967288

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen") wrote:

A short video about Ela Minus from "Synth History":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYGEv-g7Pw

I'll be curious to see their next videos.

Ela Minus is on bandcamp:

https://elaminus.bandcamp.com/

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

US peeps, before I eBay it, anyone need a Atari 800? Working, comes with full RAM complement. No power supply or other extras.

To make an offer, please name a dollar amount of what you’d be willing to pay and your zip so I can give you a shipping estimate.

#retrocomputing #atari

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don’t just use AI btw. I even own multiple VR headsets and once a year check out Meta’s metaverse.

I just did my yearly check in. It’s still deserted. I eventually managed to find 4 children in a K-pop Demon Hunters world, making fart noises at each other.

A few years ago, leading financial analysts said the Metaverse would be a multi trillion dollar market by now. In actual fact it’s a wet fart, which orgs flushed billions down toilet with based on the word of techbros and Morgan Stanley.

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Dianora@ottawa.place ("Dianora (Diane Bruce)") wrote:

I love little libraries ! We stuck a couple of books in the other day.
We have our own copy of the Margaret Atwood book as it is a very good read.

#Ottawa #LittleLibrary

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TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board — the agency that investigates refinery fires and chemical explosions to prevent future disasters the way the better-known NTSB investigates plane crashes — is shut down and may soon be eliminated entirely.

Scientists who study chemical disasters say this dangerous move will save the federal government a mere $14 million. https://theconversation.com/refinery-fires-other-chemical-disasters-may-no-longer-get-safety-investigations-265546

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

How did this guy ever get put in charge of medicine in our country? He's going to kill a lot of children.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/11/he-wants-us-all-to-die/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

I have reached peak Onryō

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the original LLM

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Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games ("Nina Kiel") wrote:

After several months of work, I finished this #embroidery project yesterday. It's my second ever attempt at embroidery and I'm really, really happy with the result.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.

Generative AI is, for the most part, porn you can post on LinkedIn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
grimalkina ("Dr. Cat Hicks") wrote:

ICYMI, I am putting together a free Developer Science "office hour" where you can join me to walk through the basics of designing a study....as long as enough new folks sign up for fight for the human 🤠

Why do this when research isn't your job??
- backstage pass to science when you learn methods
- no better way to think carefully about data
- get better at criticizing BAD research designs!
- it's genuinely fun and you might inspire real future science!

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115344101004741880

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

What on earth compels people to reply to a post with “TL;DR”? Do they have an inner voice constantly telling them to find ways to simultaneously piss on people’s posts and demonstrate their illiteracy? Or are they just assholes

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jwcph@helvede.net ("JWcph, Radicalized By Decency") wrote:

@baldur Also, another instance of how "We strive to accommodate everyone inside our big tent!" always, ALWAYS means right-wing fascists & racists, never marginalized groups...

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

A recurring thing you see on social media, tech especially, is an intense discussion between two seemingly diametrically opposite positions, neither side realising that the “opposites” are artificial—their sides are socially defined to be in conflict but, actually, both can be true at the same time

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? | Arya Bread Crumbs”

https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

Yet another instalment of "tech company just can't resist overtly supporting white supremacists, even if it is strategically a massive own goal"

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

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stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

Oct 14 Firefox 144 will ship JS-powered view transitions with `startViewTransition`. 🎉

Of course, this is only the first step because we're all waiting for cross-document view transitions, too, but I'm still very happy about view transitions being on their way to work everywhere.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Tarn Hows.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

jwz wrote:

Today in Christofascism.

The meandering gospel of Peter: Peter Thiel is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. [...] On the day of Thiel's final lecture in San Francisco, as the mostly young and mostly male crowd...
https://jwz.org/b/ykwV

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There's no good billionaire, because all people are flawed. Money flows into the cracks and breaks what little social conditioning made people decent, if imperfect. So think of not having billionaires as a worthy societal goal *for their sake too*.

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fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

Best movie about hackers?

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igb@mastodon.hccp.org ("Ian Brown :verified:") wrote:

"Benioff made the comments to the Times as he rode his private plane to San Francisco this week."

What an asshole.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

After more time trying to figure out how to do what I want in SwiftUI for this app, I am contemplating learning Dart and Flutter.

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JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

It's true we already knew Thiel was unhinged, but I'm surprised to find him this incoherent, somewhere between 'AI' slop and end-times cult babble.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist

If this transcript is worth reading at all, it's to give insight into just how lost and unwell some of these billionaire tech bros become. High on their own heads, insulated by their own power, and surrounded by sycophants confirming their every madness.

#tech #cult

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altaudge_ruins@beige.party ("𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭") wrote:

dance like everyone is watching and this is their punishment

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I honestly didn't think Newsom had the guts:

https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10/newsom-signs-massive-california-housing-overhaul/

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It really is teeny tiny.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #plants #grass #trees #river