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Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR
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SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY
YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW
IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS
tidal.com/transfer-music
YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW
IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS
tidal.com/transfer-music
Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY
YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW
IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS
tidal.com/transfer-music
YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW
IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS
tidal.com/transfer-music
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wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -
September 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -
Well, at least I didn't get very affectionated to bluesky before having to delete and move on I guess...
(Shit I will have to get on with the fediverse I know.)
(Shit I will have to get on with the fediverse I know.)
September 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Well, at least I didn't get very affectionated to bluesky before having to delete and move on I guess...
(Shit I will have to get on with the fediverse I know.)
(Shit I will have to get on with the fediverse I know.)
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I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.
September 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.
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That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
Not distressing.
Full tilt disturbing.
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everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr
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“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
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Starting to regret inventing the podcast
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Starting to regret inventing the podcast
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Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
August 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.
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YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
August 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened
• Features like ears are being altered
• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity
• There's currently no way to opt out
(via BBC)
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August 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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New: My deep dive into the business of AI slop. wapo.st/4mFECxC
Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal video business taking over the web
A mad rush of creators is using AI video tools to flood the web — and turn a profit — with videos that can seem remarkably real.
wapo.st
August 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
New: My deep dive into the business of AI slop. wapo.st/4mFECxC
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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NEW: Spotify is now publishing — and profiting off — AI-generated songs ‘from’ *dead* artists
Without permission
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
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August 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
NEW: Spotify is now publishing — and profiting off — AI-generated songs ‘from’ *dead* artists
Without permission
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
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Without permission
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The f*&%ing library.
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The f*&%ing library.
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Winamp Skin: Virtual Dimension RMX
August 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Winamp Skin: Virtual Dimension RMX
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Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
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A reminder that when Becky needed to help a co-worker get into English classes that were actually affordable to lower income immigrants, it was the library that facilitated that.
Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.
Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.
Great day to get a library card.
Digital lending is available.
They want us ignorant.
Fight ignorance. Please.
Digital lending is available.
They want us ignorant.
Fight ignorance. Please.
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A reminder that when Becky needed to help a co-worker get into English classes that were actually affordable to lower income immigrants, it was the library that facilitated that.
Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.
Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
July 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
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Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time
On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...
www.stereogum.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.