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yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible

The fundamental reward structure of their minds has been completely rewired around "trying to impress 100,000 of the most sociopathic white supremacists in history, carefully curated by Elon Musk" and it has turned them into gleeful murderers and open psychopathic freaks.

It's Twitter! Twitter has done this to them. Their entire personalities, their entire psyches have been repurposed towards doing and saying things for retweets. They'd probably shoot their own mothers if it would get 4 million views and enough bluecheck Nazis saying "most based thing ever"

Vladimir Putin should be drawn, quartered and his lifeless body hung upside down in Red Square.

Low-education MAGA chuds believe the most hysterically insane reports about what happens in college classrooms.

“I said prayer is important and the professor flunked me from the class and said my only path back is to tattoo a Soviet hammer and sickle across my face. Read more at Campus Reform.”

In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed 0.12-0.24kWh of electricity per hour" - that's 240 watt-hours per hour at the higher end. Assuming that higher end, a ChatGPT prompt by Sam Altman's estimate uses: 0.34 Wh / (240 Wh / 3600 seconds) = 5.1 seconds of Netflix Or double that, 10.2 seconds, if you take the lower end of the Netflix estimate instead. I'm always interested in anything that can help contextualize a number like "0.34 watt-hours" - I think this comparison to Netflix is a neat way of doing that. This is evidently not the whole story with regards to AI energy usage - training costs, data center buildout costs and the ongoing fierce competition between the providers all add up to a very significant carbon footprint for the AI industry as a whole.

Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt

As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use

simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...

Also, the energy cost/query has actually been going down, not up.

Streaming 1 episode of Seinfeld uses as much electricity as 188 AI queries (based on conservative estimates).

I also had done the math on how much more electricity the microwave uses. But nobody doomsdaying about microwaves.

How To Live No. 17 Spaghetti, of the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Paul Spooner was born in Lancashire, England, in 1948. He exhibited mechanical aptitude early on and by the age of 16 had constructed a clock and a steam engine from wood. He studied mechanical sculpt...

There is an exhibit by the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre currently at the American Visionary Art Museum(AVAM) - incredible stuff

www.youtube.com/@CabaretMech...

www.avam.org/art/how-to-l...

This belongs in the AVAM

Homeland Security: This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.

This is so telling.

It’s like saying “Merry Christmas, unless you think Jesus Christ cared about and served poor and needy people.”

If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:

I, for one, salute you. Thank you for your service, Senator.

I'm not sure what's so impressive about this particular image. Have folks in this thread not seen what genAI has already been capable of over the last year? Nano banana is legitimately amazing, but this image isn't breaking any new ground as far as I know

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

Planning a new investment in healing crystals after my six previous investments failed to cure my kidney stones

RFK Jr looks like a comic-book character, but one that was drawn by current Frank Miller

Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

“Why would you defend Trump’s economy?”

I am not defending Trump’s economic policies, which are terrible. I am saying that Trump is a product of a hallucinatory digital dreamscape, and slipping deeper into it just because it’s temporarily turned bleak for him, is not a sustainable solution.

People have always been fundamentally irrational - socially conveyed ideas have always superseded observable reality. But modern liberal democracy was made possible by epistemological structures, in the form of media institutions and political norms, that promoted fact and truth. They have collapsed

The collapsing cost of media production has fragmented media into literally millions of publishers, creating a true marketplace of ideas where producers benefit by providing the exact narratives that consumers enjoy hearing the most. That means lurid doomerism is endemic

Demand for bad news is insatiable, and we’ve built a media ecosystem where the vast majority of content creators have total freedom to simply invent bad news to meet that demand

Okay, devil's advocate: a lot of areas do essentially this in preparation for a vacuum truck comes and sucks up the leaves for composting. A godsend, really, if you've had to deal with a large quantity of leaves in an area that requires bagging for disposal.

Home invasions.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.

Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.

The GOP isn't the party of law and order.

They're the party of lawlessness and violence.

An actual concern!

I want to be clear that when I say “I am not sure what acute housing crisis America faces” I do not mean there aren’t a number of significant and enduring problems in America’s housing markets.

This should've been immediately apparent to anyone with the vaguest idea of how any of this works, but the anti-AI tastemakers can't help themselves(ignoring other real concerns in the process)

I do enjoy pointing people at their median monthly rent data.

(If you are paying >$2000 in rent you are paying above median rent in almost everywhere in the country)