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And growing plants that we eat.

will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?

It takes time to build a power plant. A more realistic scenario is that we’ll continue as we have: AI centers will be built wherever local governments approve them for the taxes, without regard for the strain they put on the aging electrical grid and, given the massive amount of electricity they need, everyone’s electrical bill will just massively increase.

They’ve been building a large number of data centers and AI centers in Virginia, and it’s been straining and raising prices across the entire PJM interconnector region, to the point where at least a couple states are considering leaving it. Microsoft has bought the rights to and is reactivating part of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, because they wanted dedicated power, and they’re still going to be pulling power from the grid.

There won’t be any. You saw that lack in his last administration, everything wrong was “sabotage by the Deep State”. Now it’s that he’s doing the right things, they’re just “being implemented wrong”.

I keep thinking back to something I heard during the election: Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless.

Not that I’m bitter …

Don’t get an in-door ice maker. If you have to have an ice maker, have it internal to the unit.

Check out what maintenance you need to do before you buy it, and how easy the maintenance will be given the space you’re putting the unit into. Like, if it’s a tight fit and surrounded on three sides, cleaning the coils might be problematic, etc.

You can, but then you never know what the junk is hiding: patches of bare dirt, certainly, but also oil, transmission fluid or other toxic seeping into the ground, small bits of metal parts (you know they’re not going to find everything) that become missiles when bit with a lawnmower, etc.

Little blip at 1701 (NCC-1701). I wonder what the other individual blips represent.

Until they change their ToS (without telling you) and enable it by default (and hide the controls that let you decline).

In other words, meta is harvesting your WhatsApp data, and gives you a (potentially inaccurate) summary in exchange for feeding their LLMs.

There’s nothing to prove that you were home with your phone.

I’m sorry :( It was such a good store!

How is a manufacturer going to be held responsible for their flaws when musk DOGE’d investigating his companies?

I’m near enough to You-Do-It

. :'(

Just a reminder that it’s illegal to wear masks in New Orleans unless it’s Carnivale.

I prefer WizTree. It’ll show you space usage, but you can also search for files, and it’s incredibly fast.

Depends on how many people you’re envisioning in your commune, but you’ll likely need more than a one-acre garden. And working that garden is quite a bit of work!

Fuck spez.

“dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives”.

the company is also introducing a “scalable, AI-powered social listening tool. […] Informed by proprietary metadata, it provides precise, real-time insights that help marketers confidently plan campaigns, validate creative ideas, and make smarter business decisions"

I wonder how much they had to pay a business major to come up with those sentences, or did they just use ChatGPT …

The APIcalypse.

I speak English. And, as James Nicoll said,

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I speak some Spanish and some Dutch, but I don’t know if I borrow many words from them that aren’t “normal” borrow-words.

Boo! :(