Microsoft and NextDC threaten Australians with terrifying prospect of cleaner air, lower climate impacts, lower power bills and less noise in urban communities

https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/data-centre-giants-sound-alarm-as-building-backlash-headwinds-grow-20261020-p616od?promote_channel=edmail

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot

A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

The American mind cannot process a vehicle that is not designed to kill as many pedestrian children as possible

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has hosted panels featuring, and sponsored by, big tech companies that are driving a dramatic expansion of fossil fuel production in order to power their energy intensive data centres.

https://www.desmog.com/2026/09/29/tony-blair-institute-brings-gas-guzzling-tech-giants-to-labour-conference/

'We missed the 1.5c target so that means it's too late to stop climate change'

Ah, we missed the 'zero road deaths' target this year. What a shame. Time to take the hummer out, squeeze my eyes shut and smash the accelerator in a pedestrian zone.

Come on people, let's make some sense here

EV advocacy world really needs to contend with the fact that car companies are hell bent on making them into the most exhausting, enshittified, advertising-infected subscription model oversized junk tanks imaginable

https://www.techspot.com/news/113327-bmw-putting-spider-man-ads-dashboard-after-promising.html

I don't think Anthropic really meant it this way but what an amazing demonstration of why generative AI's energy consumption is only getting worse, and dirtier. "Improvements" only come from nesting chatbots within chatbots, rather than any fundamental smarter design. It's wasteful at every single level. It's Bitcoin x 1000

Knowingly using a piece of software that *BY DESIGN* fabricates text is not "hallucination" - it is fraud. I'd be prosecuted if I sat down and invented references for submissions in a court case. I'd lose my job as an academic if I did the same for a paper. Someone explain why automating fraud has somehow made it completely fine and consequence-free?

The very tiny remaining few of us who still give a crap about "not lying" need to fight to bring back real consequences for fraud, fabrication