The ubiquity of smart glasses depends largely on the off-chance that they won’t be widely used to sexually harass women, but that currently seems to be their primary purpose.

Have you ever felt like your favorite pasta sauce had too little electronic surveillance? If so, you’re in luck!

'Ferngully' Returns As Live-Action Pic; Marielle Heller To Direct For Amazon MGM Amazon MGM Studios has set 'FernGully' as a live-action film based on the 1992 animated 'FernGully: The Last Rainforest.' Marielle Heller is set to direct.

Everything is slop deadline.com/2026/04/fern...

Very rude.

If I were Anthropic, I’d name my big scary model “Gary” so that all the professional doomsayers will have to say things like, “Gary has the potential to wipe out humanity”

The fact that Geese is getting cancelled because their label hired a digital marketing team is hilarious. What were they supposed to do?

Do you live near a data center?

Do you know anyone who lives near a data center?

I want to talk to you!

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The ENIAC was developed by the U.S. Army and its first use was to model the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, so kind of?

Data centers (in their current form) are deeply contingent upon the imaginaries of a platformized web, which began consolidating in the mid-2000s. They are far from inevitable and alternatives already exist. They’re just not as cheap, ubiquitous, nor profit-generating.

We are so not in a bubble, it’s crazy.

“All that is old shall be new again” or something…

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27 GAS TURBINES FOR ONE DATA CENTER

Increasingly feel like I need to quit my job so I can spend all my time fighting every single one of these toxic projects.

My anxiety disorder was not made to handle 2026’s particular cocktail of shit. Every day is a new pantheon of horrors.

“OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that could exempt companies from liability in the event that frontier models…cause “critical harms,” like creating a weapon of mass destruction, killing more than 100 people, or causing at least $1 billion in property damage.”

The bill in question:

And it isn’t even that hard to imagine alternatives. Data centers don’t have to look the way they do, or be the way they are. We can make things otherwise. Tech bros just want us to think their visions are inevitable. They aren’t.

Kinda seems like people don’t really like data centers. Probably because they have shitty value propositions and produce basically no jobs. Perhaps it’s an opportune time to broadly rethink our material relationships to computing?

All life on earth will eventually fold into one big data-harvesting mobile game.

Rewatching Interstellar and it turns out the most unrealistic part of the movie is not the whole flying through a black hole thing, but that the AI robot can keep an accurate timer.

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

This could be good actually:
Step 1: Convince all CEOs to build AI versions of themselves
Step 2: Sleeper shareholder activists fire all CEOs and turn corps into worker-owned co-ops because we don’t need CEOs
Step 3: Workers seize means of production
Step 4: Marx wins www.ft.com/content/0210...

This happened to me and it was like a 3 year process to remedy. So ridiculous.

Highly recommend the show La Brea. It’s like if Lost were written by a 5th grader. At least half of the biggest plot points of the first season (maybe first 2) of Lost were rattled off one after the other in 40 minutes during the pilot.

I mean, they do have their bookclubs www.capitalone.com/tech/culture...

It's just that I've been researching this shit for YEARS and I've reached a breaking point where I can't make excuses for any of it anymore. It's all bad. Tear it all down.

You are correct!

HAHA sorry. I'm in a mood and so am ranting angrily about everything.

Bitcoin is not "cosmic money" or whatever Michael Saylor claims. It's an intentionally inefficient database and only remains at its current value in part because of years of reckless USDT printing and Trump's huge crypto plays. It's a simulacrum of value, not actual value.