Peter
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Peter
@prospepeter.bsky.social
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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As we talk about Microsoft and Amazon pulling back on data center projects, don’t ignore what’s happening in China, where “projects are failing, energy is being wasted, and data centers have become ‘distressed assets’ whose investors are keen to unload them at below-market rates.”
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
The country poured billions into AI infrastructure, but the data center gold rush is unraveling as speculative investments collide with weak demand and DeepSeek shifts AI trends.
www.technologyreview.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Hoy es #1deMayo, una jornada para reivindicar avances y felicitar a todas las personas que, con su trabajo, hacen un mundo mejor
💪👏👏
#1Mayo2025
#DiaDelTrabajador
#DíaInternacionalDelTrabajo
May 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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“…The viral outrage disseminated on social media actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
March 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Always and forever,

Fuck Google.
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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A new paper finds that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use — which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and mankind as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."

Innovation is a distraction
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.”

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs
December 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Onder het mom van de bescherming van de nationale veiligheid langdurig gegevens bewaren? 🙅‍♀️ In 2022 wisten we na een klacht de gegevens van vele burgers te bevrijden uit de handen van de geheime diensten!

Ter ere van onze 25ste verjaardag zetten we de hoogtepunten op een rij: 25.bitsoffreedom.nl! 🎉
December 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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This is such a profoundly unserious response to a genuine threat to democracy. The Labour party's persistent refusal to accept that we live in an era where the stakes are higher than its performance at the next general election amounts to negligence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM