Now why did just realizing tonight is Gritty's first playoff game make me emotional?

People that need AI to write emails, you don’t have imposter syndrome you simply are the imposter.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com --

happy earth day, don't miss this one!

In Oct The NYTimes reported Amazon, the second-largest employer in the US, hopes to use robots to avoid hiring 160,000 humans it would typically need by 2027, and 600,000 by 2033; the ultimate goal is to automate 75% of its logistics operations.

Who will buy from them when no jobs remain? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤬😡

Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Out: the doomscroll.
In: coming together to elect local leaders that actually care about us, our neighbors, and our planet.

We support Substack exodus

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Crypto is for criming.

Over half of Americans don’t have passports.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?

Rather convenient he sells both the plagiarism machine that makes human verification necessary AND the biometric theft scheme needed to prove humanity. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🫠 #technodistopia

www.wired.com/story/gazing...

Them: Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the society that made it possible
Me: Ah yes Silicon Valley *should* pay more taxes
Them: Not like that

this small thread is a quenching chaser to the Palantir thread (& it’d be better if members of Congress were saying it)

It’s the weekend so I guess the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the markets will dip on Monday and miraculously rise from the dead on TACO Tuesday.

International diplomacy or stock market manipulation? I guess we’ll never know. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

the roadmap to technological fascism is both terrifying and deeply insufferable

our wannabe overlords are evil, and dangerous, and also total dweebs

Have to do what I’m told I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you want an interactive book, you do not need AI to make up slopped shite. Go look at the 90s, find a pick-your-own-adventure story and enjoy using your brain. It’s healthier.

🫂🫂

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup.

He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal.

He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage.

He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.