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· Mar 11
"At current growth rates, some new AI servers could soon gobble up more than 85 terawatt hours of electricity each year, researchers have estimated — more than some small nations’ annual energy consumption."
Before you use that chatbot prompt, you should be aware that these generative AI companies are using so much power that they're trying to get more power plants built.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Bearing in mind that there were ~750 MILLION people worldwide who lacked electricity in 2023 - no light or heat without smoke, no a/c in summer, no stove, no kettle, never fuckin mind internet access for education - this seems a particularly egregious, assholish piece of waste.
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WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its work
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
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I've said this before, will say it again:
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
![In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California.[1] She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment.[1] In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency.[1][5][6] In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.[1][5][6]
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company.[7][8][9] Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become a competitor to Twitter following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.[5][6][10][11]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rzlkhiq65ar3vhavqxf6roa/bafkreiffho55ffml5uqmj4wtdqbc3pdptc4ilkd4n3xgwml2xmyeqntnvq@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I've said this before, will say it again:
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
The CEO of this place got her career started in the technofascist crypto space, so the idea that she was some leftist progressive stalwart has always been a bunch of horseshit.
She is literally -one- of them and always has been.
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I think it's a lot easier to think of #nuclear as "clean energy" if you are willing to ignore the people who mined the fuel, the communities they live in, and what happens after the mines close.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
From me: ‘EPA begins uranium cleanup at Lukachukai Superfund site on the Navajo Nation’
EPA begins uranium mine cleanup at Lukachukai Superfund site on the Navajo Nation
The U.S. EPA has started the long-awaited cleanup of Cold War-era uranium mine sites at a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation.
www.azcentral.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think it's a lot easier to think of #nuclear as "clean energy" if you are willing to ignore the people who mined the fuel, the communities they live in, and what happens after the mines close.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
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Whenever I feel like I'm being too harsh on the genAI peddlers worming their way into science (and the many weenies meekly going along with them), I listen to the recording of the last Kaua'i O'o to remind myself what is at stake.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Whenever I feel like I'm being too harsh on the genAI peddlers worming their way into science (and the many weenies meekly going along with them), I listen to the recording of the last Kaua'i O'o to remind myself what is at stake.
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The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Did you know that over *half* of the GHG emissions from Southeast Asia come from deforestation & agriculture?
We can't solve climate change without taking these seriously.
drawdown.org/insights/why...
We can't solve climate change without taking these seriously.
drawdown.org/insights/why...
Why forests and farming are critical climate solutions in Southeast Asia
A recent report highlights the hotspots of emissions in Southeast Asia and reveals a roadmap for the most impactful solutions.
drawdown.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Did you know that over *half* of the GHG emissions from Southeast Asia come from deforestation & agriculture?
We can't solve climate change without taking these seriously.
drawdown.org/insights/why...
We can't solve climate change without taking these seriously.
drawdown.org/insights/why...
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I’m Azooz 16 years old
My father and several family members were killed in the war, our home and school destroyed, and now I’m supporting my family alone
Your donation can buys me books, supplies, bringing me one step closer to the classroom & future
tinyurl.com/azooz9
My father and several family members were killed in the war, our home and school destroyed, and now I’m supporting my family alone
Your donation can buys me books, supplies, bringing me one step closer to the classroom & future
tinyurl.com/azooz9
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m Azooz 16 years old
My father and several family members were killed in the war, our home and school destroyed, and now I’m supporting my family alone
Your donation can buys me books, supplies, bringing me one step closer to the classroom & future
tinyurl.com/azooz9
My father and several family members were killed in the war, our home and school destroyed, and now I’m supporting my family alone
Your donation can buys me books, supplies, bringing me one step closer to the classroom & future
tinyurl.com/azooz9
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Support my family 💔 Gaza under fire and death is very near.
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Support my family 💔 Gaza under fire and death is very near.
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
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“Unfortunately she thinks she’s a real economist, a stupid delusion that is annoyingly getting in the way of me getting laid.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Unfortunately she thinks she’s a real economist, a stupid delusion that is annoyingly getting in the way of me getting laid.”
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Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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NYT subtext:
If you have leaders like her Mamdani threatening to address homelessness, then how will our protected, wealthy, buddies source prey for their child rape parties?
If you have leaders like her Mamdani threatening to address homelessness, then how will our protected, wealthy, buddies source prey for their child rape parties?
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
NYT subtext:
If you have leaders like her Mamdani threatening to address homelessness, then how will our protected, wealthy, buddies source prey for their child rape parties?
If you have leaders like her Mamdani threatening to address homelessness, then how will our protected, wealthy, buddies source prey for their child rape parties?
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The fact that children in 2025 are suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is not just a public health failure. It is a moral failure.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
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The definition they are using for woman is solely based on reproductive capacity. If you cannot be a breeding vessel for men, you are not considered a woman. That's it. That's the world they want. A fascist eugenics based world.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The definition they are using for woman is solely based on reproductive capacity. If you cannot be a breeding vessel for men, you are not considered a woman. That's it. That's the world they want. A fascist eugenics based world.
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
GO LULA
I know he's not perfect, but christ, GO LULA!
I know he's not perfect, but christ, GO LULA!
Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work? #Climate
Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?
Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
GO LULA
I know he's not perfect, but christ, GO LULA!
I know he's not perfect, but christ, GO LULA!
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
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Americans make a huge brouhaha if anything is given free, dubbing it as communism but in Europe it's the norm and people are happier for it. Doesn't mean the end of free enterprise; doesn't mean communism. A large % of Americans have clearly been brainwashed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Americans make a huge brouhaha if anything is given free, dubbing it as communism but in Europe it's the norm and people are happier for it. Doesn't mean the end of free enterprise; doesn't mean communism. A large % of Americans have clearly been brainwashed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
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Dr Ezzideen Shehab
returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.
He tells that story in his new book, 'Diary of a Young Doctor'.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/i-am-a-doc...
returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.
He tells that story in his new book, 'Diary of a Young Doctor'.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/i-am-a-doc...
'I am a doctor, and I cannot save a child'
An excerpt from 'Diary of a Young Doctor' by Gaza physician Dr Ezzideen Shehab
www.deepcutnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Dr Ezzideen Shehab
returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.
He tells that story in his new book, 'Diary of a Young Doctor'.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/i-am-a-doc...
returned to Gaza just a few days before 7 October 2023 and has provided medical care to its people ever since.
He tells that story in his new book, 'Diary of a Young Doctor'.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/i-am-a-doc...