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Patrik

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Trying to do the philosophy

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Patrik @nilspatrik.bsky.social · Mar 13

Happy to be part of the inaugural issue of an exciting new journal of posthumanities: Entanglements.

www.entanglements.in/issues.php?i...

Entanglements Volume 1, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities. Volume 1, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

www.entanglements.in

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Mathias Wåg

@guldfiske.bsky.social

Vi kan ersätta alla rubriker o newsflash med denna.

Skenande [insert valfri]. De rika har råd. Ingen kan rädda oss.

Emelie @vingadeyeliner.bsky.social · Mar 17

Vad ljust

Newsflash från Ekot: Forskaren om de skenande matpriserna: de som tjänar mest har råd – ingen kan rädda oss

March 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM

Patrik

@nilspatrik.bsky.social

Happy to be part of the inaugural issue of an exciting new journal of posthumanities: Entanglements.

www.entanglements.in/issues.php?i...

Entanglements Volume 1, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities. Volume 1, Issue 1 (Open Issue)

www.entanglements.in

March 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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elia ayoub

@ayoub.bsky.social

The very idea of Palestinian freedom is so loathed by the US that two of the only states getting aid are the two states blockading Gaza, a strip mostly populated by children

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt

Internal memo to US state department staff explicitly makes exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt

www.theguardian.com

January 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jan 23

I'm old enough to remember the last time OpenAI was pledging to build a big stupid supercomputer called Stargate. Nobody wanna talk about this? How stupid this shit is? How absolutely stupid all of this god damn generative AI shit is?

www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...

I've been hesitant to outright say that we're in an artificial intelligence bubble, or at least I was until I read that Microsoft and OpenAI are currently planning to build a $100 billion supercomputer dubbed "Stargate." The six-year-long project is contingent on "OpenAI's ability to meaningfully improve the capabilities of its AI" according to The Information's sources, and would require "as much as five gigawatts of power." To give context, one gigawatt is enough to power 750,000 homes. The Information's story is vague about the progress required to launch Stargate — it's a multi-phase operation, currently "in the middle" of its third phase, adding that the datacenter would potentially cost $10 billion to build, and that half of the $100 billion total cost could be made up of specialist AI chips.

The article is vague, likely because building Stargate is at this point somewhat theoretical. Microsoft allegedly has to find new ways to fit more GPUs (the graphics process unit that is used in AI compute) in a single rack (the way that servers are mounted in a datacenter), and find an entirely new way of cooling them to make Stargate run. It would also need to source enough energy to power an entire city.

January 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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please look at pinned post 🔻⭕️ - ذئب

@habibiwolf.bsky.social

Update via RNN. The difference in the way she looks after 5 months in solitary confinement 🤬:

“Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned leader, emerges liberated after 5 months and 1 week in solitary confinement in the occupation prisons, freed by the Resistance in the Flood of the Free!”

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