RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
"I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this.
The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025."
GenAI is gonna kill us and the planet
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat
RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116848783162226925
This is absolutely shocking. Keir Starmer spinelessly acquiescing when bullied by Trump and his administration. And the cost of the "deal" to be borne by the sick and disabled.
I hate headlines like this. You read the article and discover she works in finance, he runs a life coaching business whatever that is, and they retired once their savings hit £1 million which didn't come from making their own sandwiches.
Meanwhile out in the real world most of us have been bringing packed lunches to work since the 2010s at least and are still one unexpected vet bill away from a couple of months of home haircuts.
Reminder. It's #SkaDay
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/ Hey kids, want to see a platform die?
Bloody hell, the Trump whitehouse have found someone to do to Astronomy what RFK is doing to medicine. Avi 'Everything is aliens' Loeb.
So America's Supreme C*nts strike again, deciding they know healthcare better than actual doctors. I am so sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Lq-WtSxa8 I forget how great Mick Karn's solo work was, post Japan. Fretless bass enthusiast, to scratch that Kajagoogoo sound itch.
Ultra processed food? Nah, I prefer Super Processed Food: Turbo! Tournament edition.
The best demonstration I've seen of massive pickup trucks & SUVs being a deadly liability yet. The animations, examples, etc. are superb 👏
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html
Oh, look, a keyboard for the AI experts.
RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116709104841575820
Wow. This is the web site of the office of the president of the United States of America.
Is anyone even pretending anymore that America isn’t fascist?
While the AI bubble is terrible for everyone in creative fields, I like to think there are at least a few thousand folks called Alex, Alice, Alfred and such who have really cashed in due to clerical errors. The age of Sans Serif fonts is potentially a boom time to be an Al.
The sooner Meta's Ai spy glasses are universally referred to as perv goggles, the better.
germans: “uuuuuhhh, we don’t really have proper high-speed rail!!!!”
also germans:
When someone on the right parrots a blatant, provable falsehood that is doing the rounds in their media ecosystem, never assume they genuinely believe it. The vast majority are not that stupid, what they are doing is hoping that it will become accepted as true by people dumber than they are if it's signal booster enough, and that the world will be so polluted by small lies, the big ones will be harder to spot, as will the real agenda.
Look at how the right embraced the litter boxes in schools lie, everyone just knew someone who worked on a school who saw it, when nobody did, and that 'real fact' became a part of the groundwork for attack on trans healthcare for kids. 'Schools enable furries, therefore furries are widespread, therefore gender non conforming kids are everywhere and have easy access to pills and surgery, encouraged by teachers, doctors and social media, so that must be stopped, and trans care for older people too to stop the social contagion!' The attacks on all trans people was the point, the litter box was only ever groundwork for that.
If you want the seeds of inhumanity to grow, you need to fertilize the ground with a lot of bullpoop.
I've said before that I do not consent to my work, including the words I write and share here, being made available via ATProto. That's notably distinct from permission, legal right or privilege, or other more formal concepts — I mean "consent" here in the more interpersonal sense of "you should feel bad if you did this knowing I asked people to not."
I made that statement because Bluesky has implicitly taken the position that ATProto is an ingestion protocol for their Attie product.
Hey @evan - now that I know that you're the guy behind this i-don't-need-consent bot farm, and not just some guy showing up in my replies justifying it because he likes it, how about you answer the question:
Why is tags.pub opt-OUT?
There is ZERO good reason for it not to be opt-IN.
Based on your other posts, your justification seems to be "But if I make it opt-in, many people will not opt in!", which is simply unacceptable.
It's not just antisocial; it's dangerous.
https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116824281370893420
How about you stop acting like the slopmeisters slurping up the entire web against the wishes of the people who create and maintain that content?
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.
Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.
A missed opportunity?