Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it’s booming…

He’s a fascist nut, easy to dismiss. But mainstream media are spreading the same lies.

Daily reminder that FOX themselves said that their News channel is not news but entertainment, and people cannot be expected to take it seriously. … Then why is it still OK to call it News?

And don’t get me started on certain far-right podcast grifters.

Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.

“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”

Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.

Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.

Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.

This is genocide btw. And it makes me feel worse than all the shooting and killing. Whoever is complicit in this, whoever “just followed orders” any step along the way of abducting kids from their families and forcefully supplanting them, I want to see them rot in hell.

Merz has said he will ensure Nord Stream 2, which the country once backed, would not go into operation, but for now the country has no legal means to prevent a sale of the assets, owned by Russian giant Gazprom.

Let’s hope the government follows these pretty words up with action - like setting the legal means to prevent that sale. And don’t dawdle.

And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that’s going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.

Both are good 👍

ASSD

It really is very much not an “oil monarchy”

IDK; my father is one or two generations before boomers and what they did was not better.

Thank You! Yes!

So … A-not-I? AD? What do we call it? LLM seems too specialised?

True; I just hate headlines that ask stupid questions.

But then again, there’s always the premise that it could work, in such attempts, which annoys me no less.

You know, I completely forgot that Norway, too, has a decorative monarchy. Thanks for reminding me, Joffrey.

Updating databases to support anything other than that which would run on a 1970s mainframe costs the sort of money that eats into C-level’s yacht funds, so it won’t happen.

Even so, multiple strategies to include unicode characters in ASCII exist. *sigh*

Anybody who thought the answer could have been even remotely close to Yes is delusional.

Are those VR goggles?

I do not agree with the notion of “wise elders”. I don’t want to dismiss the wisdom that comes with experience and time, but there’s too many other factors to disrupt it.

Alter schützt vor Torheit nicht or, in Billy Shakespeare’s words: “There’s No Fool Like an Old Fool”

I like how you think. Yes, actions reveal more than words, even in (social) media infested 2025.

if you buy a regular phone and donate €5, you will have done more

I question if donations work that way. And you still bought one more device that’s made on the backs of disenfranchised people. (Again, not saying that a Fairphone eliminates that 100%, but a little)

In the end you are annoyed at the brand name plus the higher price evoking larger expectations in some of your friends. Join the club. But that’s a far cry from your original statement. Glad we could clear that up.