Serena Lander
@serenalander.bsky.social
Lapsed philosopher, future-pessimist, present Londoner.
Becoming a bookmark 📚
Becoming a bookmark 📚
Instead of wasting my money on contorting data sets to "prove" abusers are of a certain nationality, I'd like the same efforts protecting children and women from the only thing the data set proves most perpetrators are
June 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Instead of wasting my money on contorting data sets to "prove" abusers are of a certain nationality, I'd like the same efforts protecting children and women from the only thing the data set proves most perpetrators are
I'm less concerned getting into a driverless Uber, than I am cycling near one (given they have a reputation for randomly halting, and that Texas / California are far less pedestrians and cyclists)
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I'm less concerned getting into a driverless Uber, than I am cycling near one (given they have a reputation for randomly halting, and that Texas / California are far less pedestrians and cyclists)
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In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright.
The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.
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The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright.
The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.
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The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.
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So much of the supreme court ruling on sex has been revolving around bathrooms. No discussion around why we have gendered bathrooms. No discussion why people want gendered bathrooms. No discussion on the history of bathrooms.
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
So much of the supreme court ruling on sex has been revolving around bathrooms. No discussion around why we have gendered bathrooms. No discussion why people want gendered bathrooms. No discussion on the history of bathrooms.
Potential is lethal
April 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Potential is lethal
Deaf Internet theory
April 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Deaf Internet theory
EHRC can make a case-by-case judgement on whether companies comply with equalities act, but not whether a person is a woman
April 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
EHRC can make a case-by-case judgement on whether companies comply with equalities act, but not whether a person is a woman
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Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
April 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
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“Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its ‘Colossus’ supercomputer facility”
“why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?”
“why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?”
Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center
New footage has found that Musk's xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility.
futurism.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its ‘Colossus’ supercomputer facility”
“why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?”
“why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?”
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even knowing how horrifying Tesla's rampant pollution at the Fremont, CA plant is, the environmental racism on display at the XAI cluster in Memphis is nothing short of shocking
April 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
even knowing how horrifying Tesla's rampant pollution at the Fremont, CA plant is, the environmental racism on display at the XAI cluster in Memphis is nothing short of shocking
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To be fair, it's entirely possible he's looking at a chart upside down.
April 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
To be fair, it's entirely possible he's looking at a chart upside down.
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for those of you who don't use signal, these are the automated suggested time periods for message retention. they can auto-delete after 30 freaking seconds and the national security advisor set it to four weeks 👍
March 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
for those of you who don't use signal, these are the automated suggested time periods for message retention. they can auto-delete after 30 freaking seconds and the national security advisor set it to four weeks 👍
OPSEC as clean as your conscience
March 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
OPSEC as clean as your conscience
My feed has gone from cats to politics to complaints about backache.
March 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My feed has gone from cats to politics to complaints about backache.
Melania has got to be severed, right?
March 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Melania has got to be severed, right?
Labelling violence against Tesla showrooms 'domestic terrorism' while pardoning Capitol stormers is such brazen theft of Erdogan's intellectual property.
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Labelling violence against Tesla showrooms 'domestic terrorism' while pardoning Capitol stormers is such brazen theft of Erdogan's intellectual property.
Since DOGE ran by a 'tech, cars, finance bro' was so successful and cool in the States... who else should run the UK version other than our highly revered 'beer bro'?! /s #brewdog @brewdogofficial.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Since DOGE ran by a 'tech, cars, finance bro' was so successful and cool in the States... who else should run the UK version other than our highly revered 'beer bro'?! /s #brewdog @brewdogofficial.bsky.social
Remember when everyone rinsed me for having heritage to a country which changed its name to Türkiye?
February 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Remember when everyone rinsed me for having heritage to a country which changed its name to Türkiye?
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I'm not prejudiced against tall people but I wish they would stop picking me up and throwing me into the air and then catching me repeatedly while I giggle with delight
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm not prejudiced against tall people but I wish they would stop picking me up and throwing me into the air and then catching me repeatedly while I giggle with delight
@dylanmo.bsky.social I am a AI-pessimist donor from London with a tuxedo cat! 👋
January 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@dylanmo.bsky.social I am a AI-pessimist donor from London with a tuxedo cat! 👋
Fight Club except the narrator is just heaven-baned and Tyler Durden is just a LLM bot based on your tweets from 2012
January 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Fight Club except the narrator is just heaven-baned and Tyler Durden is just a LLM bot based on your tweets from 2012
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"[T]he White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of AI data centers along with power plants ... [I]t could allow the gas-burning power plants to exceed pollution limits and give data centers priority access to energy over other consumers on the electric grid."
The expansion of AI data centers and a rush to export fracked gas is rapidly reshaping the energy landscape.
Gas Exports and AI Boom Poised to Spike Energy Prices for Consumers Under Trump
The expansion of AI data centers and a rush to export fracked gas is rapidly reshaping the energy landscape.
truthout.org
December 28, 2024 at 12:33 AM
"[T]he White House is drafting a plan to open up public lands for the construction of AI data centers along with power plants ... [I]t could allow the gas-burning power plants to exceed pollution limits and give data centers priority access to energy over other consumers on the electric grid."
I fully endorse all future policy modelled on GTA-4.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jRf4WE...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jRf4WE...
January 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I fully endorse all future policy modelled on GTA-4.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jRf4WE...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jRf4WE...