A service is cut, quietly. A line removed, a threshold raised, a form made harder to complete. No announcement, no moment to resist. Just a slow narrowing. Weeks later people notice something missing but cannot find the point where it was taken.
"Del Vecchio understood something that would fuel the next thirty years of expansion: if you put a fashion label on a medical device, people will pay twenty times what it costs to make."
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.
We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)
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There is a very clear reason why every GenAI provider provides exactly zero information about the real energy and climate costs of their products
What happens if you only have one asterisk in a post, compared to having two?
Do they change because there's an opening and closing one on certain sides of a piece of text?
You've broken BlueSky, Susan!
Oh, wait. I wonder if it's half-parsing it as markdown or something.
Eh?
How?
Um... they look okay here. In a post. Set like superscript.
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Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!
Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
Stricter home schooling rules prompt warnings about overstretched councils www.itv.com/news/2026-04... Parents need better support, not threats!
Dyw newidiadau i reolau tai haf ddim yn mynd yn ddigon pell, yn ôl rhai busnesau
Mae unrhyw lety gwyliau sydd heb ei osod am 182 diwrnod o’r flwyddyn yn gorfod talu trethi uwch - ond mae galw i ostwng y targed hwnnw
A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
Why does BlueSky hate Palestinians?
"In very simple terms, the 'demand' for housing was inflated by a deceitfully-priced product that undersold its actual costs, and through that deceit millions of people were misled into believing said product was viable.
Did you work out where this is going yet?
The Subprime AI Crisis Begins..."
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You'd think this would at least put paid to the "not apartheid" argument, but ...
I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.
Damn, I was waiting for the day this would happen, I just never dreamed it would happen this quickly.
"How am I supposed to do my work now?!"
"Your brain?"
"I don't have an account there, what's the best tier? What is it, like $100 a month?"
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.
I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
If it's by an artist you know had to have written something, and you get this result, my guess is that the AI had been trained on the work.
We have to be careful. Since AI can't have copyright, bad faith actors could claim a real work is not bound by copyright using this kind of analysis as proof.
Well this is absolutely gorgeous! 💜
ORG calls on MPs to support Amendment (e) proposed by Liberty.
This would address some of the most pressing concerns about the proportionality of putting the Internet behind age-based ID checkpoints.
We must focus on the root causes of online harms instead of creating greater risks in power grabs.
Opinion | Our news on Iran is being bent out of shape by its alignment with the talking points out of the US and UK. The challenge is structural, given much of our media is US-owned or controlled by Trump-aligned billionaires. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/23/m...
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