Jim Caris

“We’re all cranks and/or crooks and we thought we could sell this bullshit to the world’s dumbest and most crooked governments” is going to ring very true however, not least because the British government seems to have dived into it arse-first, loudly squawking about how great it will be.

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

If you're a Youtuber remember to disable Automatic Dubbing! They re-enabled the setting for me today and it's a garbage AI feature!

Settings > Upload defaults > Advanced Settings > Automatic dubbing

Bribery

Boxes also work on bobcats

"No, you don't understand, this is an *ethical* genocide" - some Labour-right briefcase freak, probably.

I like to think I'm the first thing but I'm probably the second

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

"Supermarket Simulator" cropped from the shared image.

Padding the list out with AI slop, I see

Claude AI logo

Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

Every single person on this list is corrupt

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Best OS ever

Arts degrees are only “worthless” because tech cunts revalued the highly desirable product of freelance artists at close to zero, cos it made running the digital supply pipes look cheaper on the spreadsheets. Pay properly for the arts, and see how worthless artists are.

Haha oh boy wouldn't it be a thing if the government had mortgaged the whole economic fortunes of the country on these obviously overinflated penny stocks

It was originally called Fidel's until they heard a customer on the phone say "yeah, we're all in Fidel's" (I just made this up but it is now my unshakable head canon)

When changing the country's politics is off the table, all you have left is comms. They really believe the problem isn't the failed Thatcherite consensus of the last 5 decades, but a failure to "sell" it well enough.

Lulu is indeed lovely.

Please help her and the family that cares for her.

gofund.me/35fdca7d

Thames Water customers will be delighted to hear money from their bill increases is going towards YouTube adverts telling me they're upgrading their pipes. I'm in Devon. Nationalisation please

He should go to Ireland and tell them

Hey man, this you?

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

A large number of far right actors who have been arrested, including leaders of these rallies, have convictions of domestic and/or sexual abuse, including of children. This is something that ought to be front and center whenever these people are talked about.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL6RCE...

Private Equity in Health Care - ACHI This explainer examines the rise of private equity in healthcare, the financial structures behind private equity transactions, what the evidence shows about the impacts of these transactions on the he...

More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare

PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.

Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.

Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

If the right accuse the left of something (terrorist sympathising, communism, antisemitism etc) the media will ask the left to defend themselves from that charge.

If the left accuse the right of something (racism, fascism, colonialism), the media will ask the left to justify that charge.

We’re on a speedrun to bluesky banning anti ai hate speech but leaving anti trans hate speech awesome

Somehow managed to miss this. I actually have a list of Bitmap Books that I was gonna order for delivery to my brother in the UK and pick up when I next visit (including 2 copies of some, as I wanted to give them as gifts). This has saved me literally hundreds of pounds.

Let me help out here Chris