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What “longtermism” gets wrong about climate change A new movement and a popular new book argue that climate change is not an existential threat to humans. That’s a dangerous claim.

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Mr Fifteen Degrees

The Verge The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the Al function for numerical calculations or in "high-stakes scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses."

In these warnings, the use of the name “Copilot” or “the AI function” is pragmatically equivalent to writing “Someone who doesn’t know what they are doing”. “Do not use <someone who doesn’t know what they are doing> for calculations etc”. But the product is still pitched as Your Super-Smart Buddy.

And yet the BCLNG, er, sorry, - the BCNDP - are practically wedded to it, they are licencing up to six new LNG plants. David Eby seems to have fully embraced the LNG-as-a-bridge-fuel lie.

yah it's the same story for many applications - if it was being designed and shipped by normal people it could be useful, but because it's part of this anxious hype festival chances that it gets used for exactly the wrong things are v v high.

Pressure in the system = pushing towards mis-application

Chatbot energy scores are welcome - but don't forget the toxic context of AI overconsumption Julien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating your query, and presents that energy valu...

So something also pretty relevant is the fact that calculation is the perfect demonstration of how generative ML replaces extremely energy efficient processes with EXTREMELY energy inefficient alternatives, that also do not return the correct answer.......

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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

"“Sean uses that account to communicate directly with users on the app, but people think they are speaking to someone actually named Tara,” she told me. Essentially, a man is posing as a woman to an audience of women who are trying to protect themselves from, at best, deceptive men"

truly though we need to bring back the era of shaming the promoters of shitty technology

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

The opening title explaining cyborgs, synthetics etc was such a bad sign right from the first frame

I have previously used the metaphor of replacing Excel formulas with the random number function as a metaphor for chatbots but they've gone and literally implemented exactly that

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ... theverge.com The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5 successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting with in 2023. Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output." The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." Copy Share Select all Web search Dictionary ...

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

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Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll Fifth of men aged 16-29 look favourably on social media influencer Andrew Tate

I always thought when I got older I was at risk of becoming conservative curmudgeon relative to the young progressive generations but young men are going to look at me in the same way baby boomer men do

"Wow....you let women vote???? OK MILLENNIAL hahahaha [real life crying emoji somehow]"

Oops, yes good point!

Tech Aug 19, 2025 Google Head Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” Google CEO praised Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for slamming the “climate extremist agenda” and sayings data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Geoff Dembicki Geoff Dembicki Clockwise from left: smokestacks, Alphabet President Ruth Porat, and a building with a large Google logo. Clockwise from left: smokestacks, Alphabet President Ruth Porat, and a building with a large Google logo. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Markus Schreiber, and Jeff Chiu)

At a recent artificial intelligence conference in Washington, D.C., Google’s president cheered on Trump’s interior secretary after he slammed Silicon Valley’s support of the so-called “climate extremist agenda” and pushed to expand the use of “incredibly clean” coal plants and other fossil fuels to power data centers, according to a previously unreported recording. Following the speech by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Google and Alphabet, told conference attendees that “I thought Secretary Burgum’s comments were fantastic... Because I think it is very clear that to realize the potential of AI, you have to have the power to deliver it. And we have underinvested in this country, and to stay ahead, we need to actually address it head-on.” Porat was speaking on a panel about how AI is “rewriting America’s future” alongside Big Tech leaders including venture capitalist Delian Asparouhov and Kevin Weil, the chief product officer for OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. During the panel,. Porat also discussed a Google white paper advocating for U.S. investments in natural gas and nuclear to power the industry’s energy-hungry data centers. Porat’s remarks, captured in an April video of the influential 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, suggest Big Tech now is prioritizing fossil fuels for data centers over its climate commitments.

Definitely starting to see a bunch of people saying what we always kinda knew out loud and more explicitly' in this case Google's CEO praising the Trump admin's flat-out pro-fossil extremism and climate denialism

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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis said a similar thing to me a few weeks ago. When I asked him about datacentres' huge energy demands he kind of replied "well, fusion". As if we're gonna crack that in time.
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Quentin Tarantino weighs in on one of cinema’s big questions: what is the best Tarantino movie? Director names his ‘masterpiece’ film, along with his favourite and the one he was ‘born to make’

weirdly agree with Tarantino; Inglorious Basterds really was great

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The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

The Knight Foundation and others are trying to raise $50 million to rescue public radio and TV stations, prioritizing ones that historically received more than 30% of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and are among the only sources of information in their communities.

A reply from your first tweet six months ago jokingly predicted this escalation: bsky.app/profile/drew...

Bahahahahah

right?????????????????

From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

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Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

still just vomiting out random statements

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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

omg how did i miss this, haha

Net Zero & sustainability in Orkney, Shetland & the Western Isles! What's not to like?
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Most other applications like gaming, file storage, video streaming etc have either not been problems or have been manageable problems!

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