Allosaur
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this is how you do investigative journalism
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
this is how you do investigative journalism
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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« Alchemy and Academe », 1980
by Rowena Morrill (American artist, 1944-2021)
Cover illustration for "Alchemy & Academe" by Anne McCaffrey, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1980
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RowenaMorrill #AnneMcCaffrey #Wizard #Alchemy #AlchemyAndAcademe
by Rowena Morrill (American artist, 1944-2021)
Cover illustration for "Alchemy & Academe" by Anne McCaffrey, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1980
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RowenaMorrill #AnneMcCaffrey #Wizard #Alchemy #AlchemyAndAcademe
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
« Alchemy and Academe », 1980
by Rowena Morrill (American artist, 1944-2021)
Cover illustration for "Alchemy & Academe" by Anne McCaffrey, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1980
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RowenaMorrill #AnneMcCaffrey #Wizard #Alchemy #AlchemyAndAcademe
by Rowena Morrill (American artist, 1944-2021)
Cover illustration for "Alchemy & Academe" by Anne McCaffrey, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1980
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #RowenaMorrill #AnneMcCaffrey #Wizard #Alchemy #AlchemyAndAcademe
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I guess we set the line at "actual nazis" this time around which isn't great but I will take what I can get
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I guess we set the line at "actual nazis" this time around which isn't great but I will take what I can get
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Woke 2 has arrived, and thank fuckin' god
Actress Dasha Nekrasova Fired By Gersh, Dropped From Movie Amid Backlash Over Podcast Interview With Far-Right Political Commentator Nick Fuentes
Actress Dasha Nekrasova has been dropped by Gersh over a podcast interview with far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes.
deadline.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Woke 2 has arrived, and thank fuckin' god
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the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
Landed in Van Nuys, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 54 min.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
the ~5 tons of CO2 emitted on this hourlong flight is roughly equivalent to what the average EU citizen emits in a year
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(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)
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Once you've seen the sub-literate gibberish passed along among billionaires, the story of how elites came to exalt Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and other stylists of 4th-grade book report prose snaps into place.
Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Once you've seen the sub-literate gibberish passed along among billionaires, the story of how elites came to exalt Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and other stylists of 4th-grade book report prose snaps into place.
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Jesus Christ! In the 1990s this guy was one of the main villains responsible for the deregulation spree that caused the 2008 crash. Why are these guys indispensable! Any moron off the street can say "Duhh taxes and regulation are bad"
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Jesus Christ! In the 1990s this guy was one of the main villains responsible for the deregulation spree that caused the 2008 crash. Why are these guys indispensable! Any moron off the street can say "Duhh taxes and regulation are bad"
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me waking up to see that Bluesky suspended Patton Oswalt @patton.oswalt.bsky.social for saying that it’s evil to sexually assault children:
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
me waking up to see that Bluesky suspended Patton Oswalt @patton.oswalt.bsky.social for saying that it’s evil to sexually assault children:
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what an embarrassing fucking field i am in
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
what an embarrassing fucking field i am in
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the takeaway from the Musk era shouldn't really be that executives being "outspoken partisans" is bad, it should be that Musk is an extremist white supremacist whose ignorance actually killed a bunch of people in several different ways
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
the takeaway from the Musk era shouldn't really be that executives being "outspoken partisans" is bad, it should be that Musk is an extremist white supremacist whose ignorance actually killed a bunch of people in several different ways
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I guess it required a study to confirm that being a lame racist zealot with a head full of cottage cheese is bad for business
Elon Musk's "polarizing and partisan actions" hurt Tesla sales, Yale study finds
Elon Musk's partisan stances and foray into politics in recent years have dented the electric vehicle maker's business, Yale researchers say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I guess it required a study to confirm that being a lame racist zealot with a head full of cottage cheese is bad for business
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I like thinking back to that news cycle a few years back where OpenAI's previous board issued all kinds of warnings about how Altman was a greasy little shit with endless financial conflicts of interest, and the entirety of the tech press jumped on the narrative that they were all unreliable cranks
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I like thinking back to that news cycle a few years back where OpenAI's previous board issued all kinds of warnings about how Altman was a greasy little shit with endless financial conflicts of interest, and the entirety of the tech press jumped on the narrative that they were all unreliable cranks
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as we saw with Elon Musk, observe how the prominent pundits at the forefront of building up unrealistic tech mythologies pivot immediately on a dime to pretend they wisely warned you of trouble the whole time
Scott Galloway warns of ‘nowhere to hide’ in markets if the OpenAI story unravels | Fortune
"If the music stops, there's not only not any chairs, there's like hot coals they're all going to sit on. It's going to be ugly."
fortune.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
as we saw with Elon Musk, observe how the prominent pundits at the forefront of building up unrealistic tech mythologies pivot immediately on a dime to pretend they wisely warned you of trouble the whole time
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idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
idk why these grown men even want to hang out with teenagers. have you spoken to a teenager? they're annoying.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
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Spending money on Kagi has made my life much better
Today, we're launching SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search.
Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:
blog.kagi.com/slopstop
Join our collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms:
blog.kagi.com/slopstop
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Spending money on Kagi has made my life much better
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
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If you use LLMs, people are laughing at you.
I’m not going to name you publicly, but if you were the speaker who put in the abstract that was so obviously written by ChatGPT it made me groan “Oh, come on” so loud people asked what I was looking at and then they groaned too, you should be almost as embarrassed as the people who accepted it
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If you use LLMs, people are laughing at you.
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I forgot about the Coca-Cola AI ad from last year. But thanks to Coke doing one again this year, my dislike of the brand has now been reinforced and I'll never forget again.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I forgot about the Coca-Cola AI ad from last year. But thanks to Coke doing one again this year, my dislike of the brand has now been reinforced and I'll never forget again.