@geerlingguy why is your website using cloudflare? tsk tsk

@meejah @dangillmor especially when there is so much surveillance related examples today; anti-mask laws, Palantir contracts, surveillance and raids by ICE, etc. take your pick.

The note to make on this post is the domain. Fly is an hosting company so if “AI lets us go faster” and “AI makes bad code but we’re slowing down to make it usable” (paraphrased) is their self-contradictory policy, that puts a question mark on hosting with them

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Also, going “many of you will lose your jobs but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” is almost admirable as a douchebag move, but it’s also the norm in tech. There is no class solidarity to speak of in tech.

Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.

This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down.

https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/ #space #science #NSF #nature

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence

^^^ These people are psychopaths ^^^

#ericSchmidt #AI

@geerlingguy I use the SponsorBlock extension so I don't fall for these. Thanks to ppl who go out of their way to mark these videos.

@snazzyq I always liked that mac mini didn't come with an external adapter. kudos to apple for sticking with the design.

@dangillmor afaik the same rule applies here in PA.

@Mer__edith I saw a few google employees comment on hacker news. apparently they count even simple word completions as AI generated code. hype train choo choos on.

Adobe reflects its corporate fear of missing out on artists as a whole, including all sorts of media not just digital. Imagine being this out of phase with your target audience.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24278715/adobe-artists-embrace-generative-ai-creative-community

Israel's longest running paper, Haaretz, confirms that Netanyahu actively blocked every hostage deal since 10/7.

He meanwhile openly plans to annex Gaza—& the conversation is still "why won't Hamas agree to a deal?

This is how genocide perpetuates. Horrific
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/israeli-media-netanyahu-actively

Eric Schmidt says we’re not going to meet our climate targets, so we must put all our energy into improving AI and hope it solves the problem for us.

He’s part of a growing chorus of tech billionaires openly admitting they’ll sacrifice the climate on the altar of their AI ambitions.

https://disconnect.blog/silicon-valley-is-sacrificing-the-climate-for-ai/

#tech #ai #genai #generativeai #climate #climatechange #ericschmidt

This could be you. Think about it. This is what our countries are supporting when they say "Israel has a right to defend itself": Killing innocent people who are seeking safety and treatment in a fucking hospital tent.

»A 20-year-old Palestinian man who was confined to a hospital bed and connected to an IV drip burned to death after an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital courtyard where displaced people had been seeking shelter.«

We need to protest until this stops.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/15/palestinian-man-burned-alive-after-israeli-strike-on-hospital-courtyard

Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe.

The new generation of Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

#tech #space #starlink #spacex #elonmusk

@dangillmor harris platform basically says trump didn’t crack hard enough on iran in 2020 and they will make usa the most potent military force, while trump says biden admin hasn’t been murderous enough in gaza and he’ll one up that. absolutely disgusting state of affairs.

"But Middle Eastern money has become the most powerful geopolitical force in the tech industry virtually overnight. “The Khashoggi era is over,” said a prominent venture capitalist.

“Everyone I talk to is either going to or coming back from the UAE — the same way we used to swing by Sand Hill Road,” said Feldman, referring to the street that’s home to Silicon Valley’s storied venture capital firms. Feldman will visit Saudi Arabia later this year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/

PSA: Every time you cite the arXiv version of something instead of the peer reviewed version, you're lending legitimacy to nonsense like this:

https://arxiv.org/html/2404.07221v1#S6

@parismarx Musk is fabulously inaccurate with his predictions. After all, he's Mr Close-To-Zero-Cases-By-April.

"In the last week, OpenAI has repeatedly lied about a voice product, dissolved its AI safety team, and had two major players in the company resign — one of whom tried to oust Sam Altman late last year, and the other who clearly despises the direction of the company."

-- from "Sam Altman is Full of Shit," by Ed Zitron.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/gemini-comes-to-gmail-to-summarize-and-draft-emails/

#tech #google #ai #gmail