🚨 🚨 🚨 IT'S OVER, COREWEAVE BONDS ARE NOW TRADING NORTH OF 15% INTEREST. THE AI BUBBLE HAS POPPED.
The bond market knows. The stock market hasn't noticed and it's still dancing along like the party's still going even though the music stopped weeks ago.
The global average surface air temperature was 1.78 degrees Celsius higher than it was the same day in 1940 on October 28 2026. That's close to two degrees higher. That's a lot. Global warming is real, and the rate our planet is warming at is accelerating.
The global average sea surface temperature was slightly more than one degree Celsius higher than it was in 1980 on October 28 2026. We have seen new sea surface temperature records daily since June 2026. Our planets oceans are currently much hotter than they have been at any point in recorded history.
The area of the ocean referred to as El Nino is exceptionally hot. This years El Nino is many magnitudes beyond anything in recorded history. This will have a huge impact on global weather patterns many months ahead.
Two centuries of unchecked ever-increasing fossil fuel consumption with resulting greenhouse gas pollution is catching up with us. We have changed the earth's atmosphere and our planets energy imbalance and the increasing temperatures we are seeing are a result of that imbalance over time. It will get hotter and hotter as time goes on, and the rate our planet is warming at is accelerating.
There is no fix, there is no way we can remove the greenhouse gasses we have already released from the atmosphere and they are not going away on their own in any timeframe that matters. This is a very unfortunate predicament. We absolutely can avoid making this predicament worse, but that is not what the vast majority of people are doing. Most people choose to accelerate the rapid global warming we have caused by driving a car.
Please take personal responsibility for the consequences of your own actions and don't drive a car.
#temperatures #oceans #climate #collapse #biospherecollapse #globalwarming #environment
@SolSoCoG looks like uploading is working right now.
@SolSoCoG I suspect that the new verify that you're using a web browser software broke file uploading. I can upload small images but even small 8 MB video files get stuck.
I'm not sure what the good fix here is, I have a few websites of my own that I've had since 2006 and I'd say 99.99% of the traffic is bots and garbage so I totally see the need for some verify that you're a person using a browser software (which likely won't do as much as you'd expect since it's just an arms race, headless chromium can run javascript just as easily as regular chrome/chromium can).
Anyway, not being able to upload files larger than 1MB is unfortunate.
The daily global average surface air temperature was 1.93 degrees Celsius higher than it was in 1940 on October 23rd 2026. That's a lot. The last eleven years have been the hottest eleven years since record keeping begun.
The global average sea surface temperature was more than one degree Celsius higher than it was in 1980 on October 23rd 2026. We have seen new sea surface temperature records daily since June 2026. The oceans are now the warmest they have ever been in October since detailed record keeping begun.
The area of the ocean referred to as El Nino is exceptionally hot right now. This years El Nino is magnitudes beyond anything in recorded history. This will have a huge impact on global weather patterns many months ahead.
Two centuries of unchecked ever-increasing fossil fuel consumption with resulting greenhouse gas pollution is catching up with us. We have changed the earth's atmosphere and our planets energy imbalance and the increasing temperatures we are seeing are a result of that imbalance over time.
There is no fix, there is no way we can remove the greenhouse gasses we have already released from the atmosphere. This is a very unfortunate predicament. We absolutely can avoid making this predicament worse, but that is not what the vast majority of people are doing. Most people choose to accelerate the rapid global warming we have caused by driving a car.
Please take personal responsibility for the consequences of your own actions and don't drive a car.
#oceans #temperatures #biospherecollapse #collapse #runawayglobalwarming #theweakshallperish
@SolSoCoG There's a workaround for the stuttery video playback at ieji (and this shows that it's indeed a ieji video player problem):
I tried installing the "FastStream Video Player" extension to Chromium,
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/faststream-video-player/kkeakohpadmbldjaiggikmnldlfkdfog
This extension changes how videos are pre-buffered and played. Videos play just fine with it since it changes how videos are pre-buffered thus avoiding stutters because ieji is telling web browsers to download videos at a lower bitrate than they are played at.
@SolSoCoG I've looked a bit more into why playing videos from ieji is a stutter-fest that makes it a utterly useless clown show. It's clearly something related to the embedded video player.
If I try to play the video at https://ieji.de/@chaekyung/117501346876760979 in both Chromium and Firefox I get something like 200-300 kB/s and so much stuttering that this site might as well not have any support for uploading videos at all. It's just broken garbage.
If I copy the video address and do wget https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/117/501/329/141/705/690/original/3be1eca0e2c233d4.mp4 then my Internet connection goes to max for 3 seconds and the file's down. The is true if I play that URL in mpv or open it in a blank Firefox web browser tab.
What this shows is that I can download video files instantly, that's not an issue. It seems to be the player ieji uses that tells web browsers to only download at a very limited rate and only download a second or two beyond the point the player is at. I don't know if this is some kind of configuration issue or a Mastodon issue but whatever the cause is it makes video playback a broken stutter-fest. Please see if it's possible to fix this somehow.
Indonesia is burning, and it's entirely due to our species grossly irresponsible behavior during the entirety of the period what we call "modern industrialized society".
From "Damaged and drained, Indonesia's peatlands go up in smoke" by Mariëtte Le Roux:
"The culprit is mainly industrial-scale plantations for timber, pulp and paper, rice paddies and palm oil, of which Indonesia is the world's biggest producer by far.
To cultivate peatlands, they are drained with canal networks that in Indonesia span about 285,000 kilometers (177,000 miles), according to Pantau Gambut research—seven times the circumference of Earth.
The water runs into rivers or the sea, leaving the dried-out peatlands vulnerable to burning, especially in strong El Niño years that can bring severe drought to Indonesia."
https://phys.org/news/2026-10-indonesia-peatlands.html
The people in Indonesia geo-engineered the landscape at an industrial scale to make it suitable for huge plantations for just one species: our own. They drained the land and now it's on fire 🔥🔥🔥.
The people in Indonesia are far from the only ones systematically destroying large sections of the biosphere we and all living things depend on to live. This is how we behave everywhere.
The global average daily surface air temperature was 1.76 degrees Celsius higher than it was the same day in 1940 on October 16 2026, and it was exactly 1 degree warmer than it was that day in 1990. October 16 2026 was the hottest October 16 since record keeping begun.
The last eleven years have also been the hottest eleven years since record keeping begun. Global warming is real, and it is accelerating.
Our oceans are also heating up, and they too are heating at an accelerating rate.
The global average sea surface temperature was more than one degree Celsius higher than it was in 1980 on October 16th 2026, and it was more than half a degree warmer than the year 2000. We have set new sea surface temperature records every day since June 2026. The oceans are now the warmest they have ever been in October since detailed record keeping begun, and they are warmer by a huge margin.
The area of the ocean referred to as El Nino is exceptionally hot.
Two centuries of unchecked ever-increasing fossil fuel consumption with resulting greenhouse gas pollution is catching up with us. We have changed the earth's atmosphere and our planets energy imbalance and the increasing temperatures we are seeing are a result of that imbalance over time.
The worlds leading scientists tried to warn you that this would happen if you kept on using cars and kept on over-consuming. You kept on driving and you kept on buying useless pieces of plastic to entertain yourself and now it's happening. Please take personal responsibility for your own actions and your footprint on the biosphere all life on earth depends on to live.
#oceans #climate #temperatures #collapse #biospherecollapse #globalwarming #theweakshallperish #environment
RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117458530945859019
ReactOS is a sad story going nowhere for decades. It was initially released in 1998. It's been 28 years and now they announce Microslop Nice Try File System support.
What begun as a Windows 95 clone and later tried to be a Windows XP clone still isn't up to par with Windows XP. That operating system was released in 2001. 2001 happens to be 25 years ago.
I realize that I'm making fun of such hard working Russian developers and their pet OS, but let's be real: ReactOS remains far from being something you can just install on some refurbished Thinkpad and use that as a drop-in replacement for Windows. Some years go by and then they announce that now they've gained support for printers and then some more years go by and they announce that they have file system support.
Biosphere collapse will have ended modern industrialized society long before ReactOS will amount to anything.
I was really excited about ReactOS when I first read about it, and I had high hopes for it. That was like 20+ years ago. Now it's a bit late to announce some balf-baked Windows XP clone because Windows XP is so old kids today haven't even heard about it.
And let's be honest. If you really need to run Wintendo games or whatever and you don't want Windows then GNU/Linux+Wine can already do that for you.
"Earlier this year, an investigation uncovered that videos recorded by Meta smart glasses were being sent to offshore Meta workers in Kenya for data labeling used to train AI models. These videos included disturbing clips and intimate moments including bathroom footage of users who likely did not realize that their recordings were being viewed by third-parties."
and the headline is:
"Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated"
So .. they just randomly record people and send those videos off to people in far-away countries so they can watch them and put labels on them in order to use those videos to train "AI" models, that's where we're at?
There's already a Turbo version of it available which is nice since it only needs 8 steps instead of 32 to 40 to make a decent image (less than 1/4th the runtime).
https://huggingface.co/AtomicChat/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-GGUF
you may also want to grab the uncensored vision language model for it,
https://huggingface.co/AtomicChat/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Uncensored-GGUF
because who wants to use the censored version and the VL model is just Qwen3VL-8B-Instruct meaning you can use it with BooguEdit/Boogu-Turbo-V2 and Flux2-Klein too.
🔥🔥🔥 Hot "AI" news, Qwen Image 2 is out and it's all the rage. Everyone's such excited for some reason.
My close-up inspection of the qwen_image_2.1-Q4_K.gguf file reveals that yes, it's yet another image model you can run on graphics cards with >=8 GB VRAM.
I think the small local models, in general, are really cool. It's more we can do with hardware lots of us have had for years that we couldn't do when we acquired it. Image models were fun when I noticed we can just download free software and run image models and get an image by giving a brief description of what the image should look like. Qwen Image 2 isn't anything new, and I don't really get what the fuzz is about. It's just a better image generation model you can run locally the same way new video games with slightly better graphics are released regularly.
The pictures below show "1girl, smashing birthday cake with hammer, at party, balloons" by Qwen Image 2 (left) and Kreamagine (right). I personally like Kreamagine better, there's something about fake realistic looking people that's odd even though it's not immediately obvious that it's fake people.
Qwen Image 2 is worth downloading & having around if you're into local models since it's a very good image model for it's size and performance, but it's not like it's DasiwaMinimaxH3.
Politico has a story about a Saudi national working at OpenAI who got caught planting a recording device in one of OpenAI's conference rooms.
One minor little detail stood out to me:
"A chatbot account associated with his spouse also indicated that the user submitted prompts in September relating to installing and remote accessing a recording device"
This does of course mean that OpenAI can look up whatever anyone's typed into any of their software as a service products.
OpenAI lost $21 billion in 2025 and they are on track to lose twice as much in 2026. They are going to get increasingly desperate and they probably have the complete "prompt"/chat history of a few rich/powerful people. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
One small somewhat related point: _Small_ models you can run on inexpensive consumer hardware many already have are really good at this point. The American tech giants made a huge gamble that the biggest and most gigantic models would be vastly superior and worth paying hand over first for, but it turns out that you really don't need gigantic models requiring gigawatt data centers. We now have things like LibreTranslate which can use a set of models and translate between any language. Remember when OpenAI launched their "Google Translate" alternative and a lot of people immediately realized it was just ChatGPT with a pre-prompt? Their approach was to use a gigantic model running on a ton of super powerful chips and you can now run LibreTranslate and do the same thing better on a phone or a 10 year old laptop.
The "AI" companies wouldn't be losing >$2 on each $1 of revenue if they could charge four times as much. That's not what they are doing because they can't.
Our species over-harvested the North Atlantic penguins to extinction more than two centuries ago. That's not long ago yet so far into into the past that most people have no idea that we used to have between 30 and 40 million North Atlantic penguins before our species spread around the Arctic circle around 12000 years ago.
Now our actions are causing the demise of the Antarctic penguins (who are an entirely different species, we just called them "penguins" because they looked similar to the now extinct North Atlantic penguins).
"Drone and satellite images showed that the volcanic island of Zavodovski lost more than 680,000 — or nearly two-thirds — of its chinstrap penguins between 2011 and 2025, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)." (CBS)
That's a result of the runaway global warming we've caused.
This is Las Condes, Chile on Thursday 8th, October 2026.
The worlds leading scientists have tried to warn us that burning 100 million barrels of oil and 25 million tonnes of coal every single day would lead to rapid global warming and climate extremes for decades. You didn't listen and most people kept on driving cars like there's no consequences of that horribly irresponsible behavior and now it's happening in Las Condes.
#flooding #climate #collapse #globalwarming #theweakshallperish
The daily global average surface air temperature was 1.59 degrees Celsius higher than it was in 1950 on October 7th 2026, and it was 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was that day in 1990.
The last eleven years have been the hottest eleven years since record keeping begun.
The global average sea surface temperature was more than one degree Celsius higher than it was in 1980 on October 7th 2026. We have set new sea surface temperature records daily since June 2026. The oceans are now the warmest they have ever been in October since detailed record keeping begun.
The Japanese have a website where they have been tracking El Nino for decades at https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/AMSR/elnino/
This year's El Nino is magnitudes beyond anything in recorded history.
The Japanese need to get a bigger Y-axis. The magnitude of this years El Nino is literally through their chart.
A large share of the methane emissions our species are causing come from landfills where we just dump our waste and leave it to be future generations problem and leaks in our gas transport systems.
Turkey will host this years COP conference in November. If you don't know what "COP" is: It's a meaningless for-show supposed climate conference where scientists who have had their statements approved by every single participating nation, including oil producing nations, can present a water-downed version of reality and talk about completely unrealistic and already in the rear-view mirror goals
Turkey has one of the worst methane-emitting landfills in the world. None of the countries participating in the COP conferences are leading by example. We need to cut all emissions to zero immediately and change our collective behavior from harming the planet to healing the planet or biosphere collapse will progress until nothing is left alive.
MOST OF THE WORLD HAS RECENTLY SET HEAT RECORDS
78% of the land surface area has set all-time monthly heat records after 2000, and the extreme heat area is accelerating fast. (6 Oct. 2026, Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink)
