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right! there's a lot to talk about about re: tech companies and their relationships to emissions, and it makes more sense to place data centers full of training hardware in that context rather than outside it!
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
right! there's a lot to talk about about re: tech companies and their relationships to emissions, and it makes more sense to place data centers full of training hardware in that context rather than outside it!
of interest to me is fossil capacity kept online or being added for data centers, prior and continuing instances of misreporting emissions or using offsets, local opposition, and in the future what happens to data centers when the capital to expand then is gone
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
of interest to me is fossil capacity kept online or being added for data centers, prior and continuing instances of misreporting emissions or using offsets, local opposition, and in the future what happens to data centers when the capital to expand then is gone
you're doing the good work and my hope is that we continue to be able to say "it's complicated but we can guess, explain, and act." excited to your future work on this!
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
you're doing the good work and my hope is that we continue to be able to say "it's complicated but we can guess, explain, and act." excited to your future work on this!
yeah for sure! my conclusion is we can currently say no, and that it's the worst kind of ecological downside where the thing has considerable ecological externalities for the privilege of losing a lot of money on the distant bet that it can evaporate or cheapen human labour
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
yeah for sure! my conclusion is we can currently say no, and that it's the worst kind of ecological downside where the thing has considerable ecological externalities for the privilege of losing a lot of money on the distant bet that it can evaporate or cheapen human labour
shouldn't be a thought terminator either.
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
shouldn't be a thought terminator either.
and reflects existing patterns of environmental racism and exploitation as towns compete to make space for these projects. we *should* think about how we use water and we *should* think about it across all industries but we have other critiques and we can use them! water shouldn't be the focus, and
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
and reflects existing patterns of environmental racism and exploitation as towns compete to make space for these projects. we *should* think about how we use water and we *should* think about it across all industries but we have other critiques and we can use them! water shouldn't be the focus, and
existing ecological critique about how projected AI power demand is burning loads of generation capacity and will drive up costs for residential electricity. cranking through 1 generation hardware and throwing it out generates ewaste with is own externalities. the land use has health effects
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
existing ecological critique about how projected AI power demand is burning loads of generation capacity and will drive up costs for residential electricity. cranking through 1 generation hardware and throwing it out generates ewaste with is own externalities. the land use has health effects
"if i could move your hands as though they were my own, i would"
December 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"if i could move your hands as though they were my own, i would"
heads up Mediterranea should be Mediterranea Inferno
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
heads up Mediterranea should be Mediterranea Inferno
hard agree, it feels like it flirts with a bunch of interesting themes but really can't commit. i'll admit that alien xenomorph mimicry/compassion was really fun
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
hard agree, it feels like it flirts with a bunch of interesting themes but really can't commit. i'll admit that alien xenomorph mimicry/compassion was really fun
gotta be uncountably infinite innit? even just for the mappings from one uncountable set to another
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
gotta be uncountably infinite innit? even just for the mappings from one uncountable set to another
i agree that there's value to knowing what's up with the technology at hand but the idea that LLMs being unpopular is going to be what motivates technological change rather than billions of research dollars doesn't make sense!
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
i agree that there's value to knowing what's up with the technology at hand but the idea that LLMs being unpopular is going to be what motivates technological change rather than billions of research dollars doesn't make sense!
i think you should turn this around: there have been considerable losses to other technologies as a result of a combination of funding cuts and economic speculation. AI as a discipline will not fall back because of disdain, it'll suffer because of a privatization and commodification of science
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
i think you should turn this around: there have been considerable losses to other technologies as a result of a combination of funding cuts and economic speculation. AI as a discipline will not fall back because of disdain, it'll suffer because of a privatization and commodification of science
A. i feel like B is a consequence of A
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A. i feel like B is a consequence of A
yeah, i think that discussion will hinge on whether we think virality is the important part. ICE watch and confrontation also goes wide often! spectacle and direct action aren't mutually exclusive imo.
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
yeah, i think that discussion will hinge on whether we think virality is the important part. ICE watch and confrontation also goes wide often! spectacle and direct action aren't mutually exclusive imo.
most of us don't naturally think tactically. sharing tactical thought and critique across actions, struggles, and movements is good and useful. we should ask ourselves if our actions meet our aims and adjust our course if they don't.
organizers have these discussions again and again, they're vital
organizers have these discussions again and again, they're vital
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
most of us don't naturally think tactically. sharing tactical thought and critique across actions, struggles, and movements is good and useful. we should ask ourselves if our actions meet our aims and adjust our course if they don't.
organizers have these discussions again and again, they're vital
organizers have these discussions again and again, they're vital
i don't think that criticism of an individual tactic can then be applied to a larger movement.
October 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
i don't think that criticism of an individual tactic can then be applied to a larger movement.
okay so this is in response to a post where Talia flat out says that the criticism of people wearing inflatable costumes on an empty street corner rather in wearing inflatable costumes in direct confrontation to ICE is a bad tactic and that that criticism is NOT about 50501.
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
okay so this is in response to a post where Talia flat out says that the criticism of people wearing inflatable costumes on an empty street corner rather in wearing inflatable costumes in direct confrontation to ICE is a bad tactic and that that criticism is NOT about 50501.