The international energy agency estimates that the total electricity consumption for AI worldwide was around 415 TWh per year as of 2024. That’s more than the UK uses.

Don’t worry they’ve defunded all of the bodies that might have compiled any fair statistics so they can deny the downfall for a few years.

I don’t mind, 90% of the value I’m getting out of this is making the sales of the game the MAGA people feel betrayed by go up by one

Oh normally I’d agree, but this is a spite pre-order not a gaming pre-order

Just for that, I’m springing for the collectors edition

It’s neat that I’ll be able to block an entire TLD with no negative repurcussions

The argument that we shouldn’t worry about things because there are worse circumstances out there essentially implies a race to the bottom.

It implies we can’t fix anything about anything except the worst thing, so everything else will naturally degrade and decline.

We won’t fix the worst thing either because it’s too remote.

Idk about you but I’m pre-ordering the woke game

We love to talk about the weather here but we actually have some of the least extreme weather on the planet. Definitely getting hotter decade on decade, though

I’ve been saying for years the corporate world was getting ready to pull the rug from tech workers. Why do people think educational standards (and as it goes, engineering standards) for software development have been pushed down so much over the last decade? “What if you get hit by a bus??” A well strangely well backed movement to “stop gatekeeping” software development now revealed as a trojan horse to make developers fungible.

Well it might take 2TB of RAM for this buggy prod system to store and retrieve a JSON blob but at least anyone can work on it.

The best way for him to get left alone would be for him or someone responsible to take down his public image as much as possible. This would be a win/win in the sense that he gets more normalcy and we don’t have to endure someone with a massive platform spreading hardcore nazi stuff.

That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

Timeraptors went extinct but you can still run into them today.

I spent some time in a mountain cave replica in a Nepalese themed restaurant, diligently honing my programming skills without the noise of the outside world. No internet, no mains, no toilet. Just me, my laptop, an angry manager who called the police and 60 charged replacement batteries that fell off a truck.

There I created the art of meditative programming where I learned to program not just my machine, but myself. As a result of this resume gap I am now able to function as a 13.6% more productive employee and have finally met the benchmark of 1.0x engineer. At my former employer I delivered a project which brought them in revenue totaling at least $12, giving me priceless experience because of this training.

There’s all sorts of other crazy options to consider like simply “stretching” this term out for a while. Any emergency will do.

Yeah there’s not really any plausible deniability there at all.

Two nazi salutes, one after the other

99% sure we’re headed for the “countries unilaterally deploy their own geoengineering solutions to attempt to secure their own local climates, descending into a sort of nationalist geoengineering war” scenario.

Imagine looking at what the US is doing to itself and thinking “I’ll have some of that, please”. 10,000 grit brains I swear to god.

Speaking as somebody with a chronic disease which recently caused me surgery and will require medication for life with an increased likelihood of repeat surgeries: FUCK him. Shit eating cunt. Absolute pied piper grifter piece of shit, nasty piece of work nazi LARPer.

In every other aspect of society, choice is heralded as a good thing, a fundamental aspect of freedom even. We were supposed to believe that having a range of different brands of toothpaste is fundamentally a good thing, and people happily choose which ones they want. We vote, it’s freedom.

Fundamentally federation is freedom as compared to centralised networks that lock you in. You can choose where to go and you never get locked in because you can choose to move instances later on - in particular Mastodon lets you take your followers with you.

If people can’t spend 15 minutes making a decision on something they’re going to spend probably hundreds of hours a year on, what does that say?

People figured out email, and that’s essentially the same set of choices - you get an email provider, you don’t go to “centralemail.com” where you can only communicate with people on that same locked in-platform.

The whole thing about people “not wanting to pick an instance” is just a bad meme. It’s all about marketing and the fact Bluesky and its predecessors like Twitter and Facebook had the money to chuck around to attract people to the platform by e.g. paying off influencers to join.

It’s also the case that BS aspires to be a federated platform (see: ATProto) - apparently it wants exactly the same “problems” that Mastodon has!

But, you know, will inevitably do something shitty with respect to that because VC funding.