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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • I do indeed. A bucket always seemed like pretty poor.protection from the end of the world, even if it was full of purified water and high protein MREs and whatever else. I suppose you could put it on your head and make like Ned Kelly

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • Planning for securing food in a nuclear winter? What a great wheeze. If your advice isn't any good, nobody can tell until there's a nuclear winter, and if there is a nuclear winter they won't exactly be able to ask for their money back because they'll be too busy dying of radiation sickness.

  • Is Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!
  • I don't think Scott Alexander is entitled to get annoyed about excessive anti-racism programmes in the workplace given that he is well known to be very racist.

    Hell, maybe he has done an above-average number of unconscious bias trainings and DEI workshops and racism book clubs, but it's because he keeps talking about how black people are mentally inferior at work and making him do training is cheaper than firing him.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • Noted sex pest Andrew Cuomo wants to run for Mayor in New York, and he might actually have a chance given the incumbent Democratic candidate is corruption magnet Eric Adams. Housing is a big issue in New York, so what's Cuomo's plan? Well, his plan is to use chat gpt to write his plan.

    Angry New York Democrats were using the slogan DREAM meaning Don't Rank Eric Adams for Mayor. It was then amended to Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor, and amended again to Don't Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor.

  • Is Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!
  • We wanted to be able to hold a job without reciting DEI shibboleths or filling in multiple-choice exams about how white people cause earthquakes. Instead we got a thousand scientific studies cancelled because they used the string “trans-” in a sentence on transmembrane proteins.

    If you were too racist to see the wood for the trees, that's your problem comrade! Well, actually it's everyone's problem now.

  • Effective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)
  • I think they're claiming that they are aware of the potential issues in how knowledge is produced (bias, unconscious or not)....but they think that they are uniquely humble and aware of all the issues, they certainly aren't influenced by ideology, and they aren't susceptible to the same logical fallacies as everyone else.

  • Data centre energy usage has outpaced growth of renewable energy in Ireland
    m.independent.ie Wind and solar energy produced more electricity last year, but data centre usage outpaced progress

    All the extra renewable electricity ­produced in Ireland last year was eaten up by the growth in data centres, new analysis shows.

    Wind and solar energy produced more electricity last year, but data centre usage outpaced progress

    "Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

    Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

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    Reimagining AI | Planet Critical

    A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

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    Interview with Dr Abeba Birhane on Irish radio

    "AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

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    Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI | Yeah Nah Pasaran! On 3CR
    www.3cr.org.au Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI

    This week we have a chat with Dr Dan McQuillan about his book Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.

    Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI

    Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

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    Building an entirely new city from scratch in Northern California: an environmentally friendly way of providing more housing, according to some silicon valley types
    www.theguardian.com Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

    Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings

    Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

    Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

    This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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