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They’ve waged entire wars just to drive down gas prices. Imagine what this administration will do when Oracle and Amazon say they need to double their energy expenditure tomorrow.

Short of a revolutionary new power source, in order for big tech to fulfill all the shareholder promises already made they have to choke us all to death with emissions. But even if cold fusion was a reality tomorrow, fossil fuel giants would still oppose it because global geopolitics run on oil.

Consider that most of the investment is not in current usage, but as of now theoretical products which will require exponentially more electricity once they have a user base. In order for the $1.2T of investment not to evaporate overnight, they have to build new data centers and for each of them.

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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This pumpkin witch from last year's streamink ✨

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A floating head of a redheaded femme presenting elf character. Right eye is green and left is blue. Has triangle facial markings around her eyes. She is gazing off screen with a daydreamy expression and red tinted eyes.

Finished my first Vgen commission!! <3 Thank you so much @bridgybun.bsky.social for your support! I hope you love it as much as I do!

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Columbus worship is yet another example of "convivial" mobilizing of beneficiaries of empire.

How you end up with settler idioms like "too many chiefs not enough indians"

I want to destroy the pillars of respectability that celebrate human trafficking and classism as "convivial bonding" for colonizers.

"but why is genocide and poverty the norm" colonizers managed to make "convivial"atmospheres that relish on suffering.

The act of "celebrating" holidays, the Gregorian calendar. Parades, masquerades. "Convivial gatherings"; All collective moments of sympathetic relation.

Blonde, elf girl standing away from the viewer in a shy manner. She's wearing a red mushroom dress with a matching mushroom hat and red thigh high socks. She is looking over her shoulder, back at the viewer with her hands outstretched in front of her. Holding on to the edge of her dress.

Fall weather is officially here for me 🍂 so here's this cute mushy elf from a couple halloweens ago 🍄

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Comradery*

Reclaim convivial to mean comradely, equality and class consciousness, instead of escapism for wealth hoarders.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

When settlers appropriate the war bonnet and other Native symbols, it's like they try to supplant the initial meaning with more malicious associations until it becomes a simulacra or pop culture artefact that defiles and ultimately supplants its traditional cultural substance.

"that's just cowboys and Indians" < one example of a social script that classifies western tropes as nostalgia worth preserving.

Why are ppl always defending those spaces as something to preserve for nostalgia? What about objectification and fetishization can be interpreted as nostalgic for any reasonable person?

Like their propensity with constantly trying to force the warbonnet to be a signaling for patriarchal predators, forcing fetishization and/or impose gender norms on minors...

Esp when folks do alot of advocacy about "Pocahontas" because the whole underage aspect. And I'm seeing those "costumes" being marketed towards kids.

Alot of folks got so weirded out by Chrissy Teagan for the alleged dance mom posts. Wish they would keep that same energy for the Indian costumes marketed towards kids.

Two Final Fantasy 14 characters. A feminine au'ra— woman with scales and round horns a the sides of her head— with pale skin and brown hair squishes the cheeks of a masculine viera— rabbit man— with dark gray skin and black hair with blue highlights. The viera holds the au'ra by the waist as she looks up at him adoringly.

Ever been in love with your best friend? 🩵💙

A collab with @seoribite.bsky.social of our #FFXIV characters: Amzi and Suna!