Microsoft released its 2024 environmental report in May, and Google released its report in June. Both companies have a goal of zero net emissions by 2030. Both are on track to miss this goal — and …
our post is up now, it was also the Federal Reserve and California DFPI
i expect dreamwidth took one look and Denise got out the flamethrower
With a sufficiently awful public disaster, there’s always room for more scorching.
me talking to someone after describing a dumb and horrible LW thing:
i feel like i'm describing a livejournal fanfic cult, which i guess i am
one that already exists - you can go to a show and your "ticket" is a hash you were sent in email and they cross it off at the door
and to think I refrained from blocking on the first whatabout comment, a rookie error
It's a mystery how Google News adds things. They added my crypto blog, for example.
this is literally the same whataboutery the crypto guys tried. go away.
we're writing this up right now
basically everyone is still fucking pissed off about FTX and Silvergate were their US dollar enablers
for an instructive exercise, try to get Google Gemini to tell you the problems with AI without also serving up a long screed on why AI is good actually
"could" is a word meaning "doesn't"
the answer is "both"
already there. it is difficult to explain just how racist Australia is, and impossible to explain it to Australians, who are convinced against all possible evidence that it is not
i mean, i have a friend who is literally a UFO religion believer, but they're decent and politically good and trustworthy and present as normal-English, so
she had a piece in The Quietus in 2018, but by 2020 they had kicked a writer out for being pals with DC Miller, her co-plaintiff in this case
(just for confusion one of the Quietus guys is a different Luke Turner)
Wonder how Power and Miller's lawyers reacted, lol
YouGov just asked me "if there were a general election tomorrow which way would you vote" and I felt sad that the question machine had been working towards this moment all its life and then didn't have the sentience to know it had finally made it.
yes, but the GDPR violation remains
even the orange site is not impressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862865
we have scientifically ascertained that this is in fact that rare correct use case for the following emoji sequence: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
those particular south africans apparently made perth in particular a fucking delight of genteel racism in the late 90s
tho they didn't particularly change the nature of it
just remembered someone i met decades ago going on and on about spiritualism and ESP and just happened to drop in their own massive racism, there's definitely a type
Google, which has an ambitious plan to address climate change with cleaner operations, came nowhere close to its goals last year, according to the company’s annual Environmental Report Tuesday.
Hey, chatbot entrepreneurs, let’s prey on the grieving! Project December will “simulate the dead” for just $10 a session. You select from a list of personality traits, add names of relatives and pe…
with early "grieftech" entepreneur Helena Blavatsky
EU executive arm drops merger review into US tech companies’ alliance.
Tech firms commonly highlight their use of AI, but in some cases it may be exaggerated.
AI Welfare Debate Week is a Forum event, running from July 1-7, where Forum users will debate the statement "AI Welfare should be an EA priority". Posts tagged with this topic will have a coloured topic tag applied to them on the frontpage, and will appear in a drop down list when users change their...
I realise it's possible to deal with more than one problem at a time, but goodness me.
Another in the SEC’s series of cases against unregistered crypto security broking.
Snapchat influencer Caryn Marjorie put out a chatbot, CarynAI, supposedly based on herself. You could talk to the robot Caryn for $1 per minute! CarynAI took in $70,000 in its first week. Marjorie …
despite the title, the post is completely SFW
This is a story of growing apart. • I was excited when I first discovered Effective Altruism. A community that takes responsibility seriously, wants…
I examine the probability of a behavior sometimes called "deceptive alignment."
We predicted in December that AI companies would get obliterated with copyright and trademark claims — the obvious consequence of training your models on other people’s work. Some of the copyright …
85 years old and still running Ponzis? Now that’s a work ethic.
AI startup Imbue got $200 million in venture capital last year — and another $12 million in follow-on funding — for a valuation of $1 billion. Two years in, the company still has no revenue and no …
AI shovelmaker Nvidia’s share price hit an all-time high of $140.76 last Thursday, briefly making Nvidia the single most valuable company in the world. But what goes up for no good reason must com…
Wannabe Cassandras warning of AI's potential for human extinction are some of the biggest champions of the industry
"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"
David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/