Just to be clear, I do not just haťe generative Al. I also haťe golf, lawns, space tourism, war, monoculture farming, clear cutting forests, building on floodplains, deep sea mining, developments that destroy habitats, and corporations bulldozing ecosystems for endless growth.

data centres are draining bengaluru’s ground water. right now there are 31 data centres in bengaluru. data centres consume roughly 20 million litres of water EVERYDAY. where will that water come from because bengaluru has no river and is entirely dependent on groundwater. more data centres are planned and upcoming. our country will not survive this. the planet will not survive this. we will not survive this.

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

AI can't do fieldwork (yet). It can't do archival work either. Plenty of interesting qs waiting to be asked and answered by actual effort. Don't let the anxieties/aspirations of quant scholars/secondary data merchants get to you.

Is anyone comparing the amount of newsprint devoted to the breaking of the Bamiyan statues to the amount of coverage the destruction of the ancient city of Tyre is getting?

Take a slave owner or residential school founder’s name off a street or remove a statue and there’ll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments it’s silence.

Almost feels like Earth was made perfectly for humans, with water falling from the sky and food growing naturally, but yet we still ended up in a system where people need credit scores, two jobs, and a 40 hour work week just to survive.

Future people will look back on current discussions about LLMs being conscious in the same way that we look back on Victorians discussing whether the telephone could be used to contact the spirit world.

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

RT @egeofanatolia: germany release dates are fascinating to me. film nominated for six oscars? no release date. film that premiered at cann…

I’m trying to figure out how we went from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building AI pollution factories in every city.

RT @AnxiousWitch07: "OH MY GAWDDD ISHA AMBANI ATE WITH HER DRESS AND REAL DIAMONDS AND EMERALD AS A BLOUSE. OH MY GOD, I'M GONNA GAG" yeah…

I have been made aware of this person entirely against my will. every time i see her it is against my will.

This is a crazy outcome for a human rights lawyer appointed by the UN to do her job

The West is obsessed with Chernobyl, churning out award-winning series about a 1986 disaster that killed 54 people on impact. Yet they remain silent on Bhopal 1984, where an American-owned factory leaked gas, killing 3,500 people instantly.

Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

not having to be on LinkedIn is the true generational wealth

Why does a caste census matter? India last counted its castes in 1931. But Telangana decided to do it in 2024. State surveyed 3.55 crore people across 242 caste groups, door to door. I read every page. More I read, More convinced I got why it's needed. Here is what I found

If you've ever said "EWWWW" out loud when you saw a Cybertruck in real life....we're already friends, you just don't know it yet.

RT @karmanomad: The destruction of Great Nicobar should be the headline in every news media in #India. Instead of screaming about Pakistan,…