[ruemetal]

i follow from this blog!

[enbyogre]

Ryland Grace is Sandy from Spongebob

[enbyogre]

[angel-derangement]

[smeared1992]

you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen

[ratica]

[brie-draws]

Artfight #28 for yuiko!

[dragongirlsnout]

Have you ever considered that Sisyphus might've just been in for the love of the game? My bus driver hits the same curb every morning

[bitter--boxx]

rosa 🌹🌹 me love her a lot

[jiwasaissappy]

[nyancrimew]

yo bro lets just dillydally later when ur free

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[8syntheticanimal8]

[kitschke]

i kinda love this response. just try reading my comment in a nicer voice and you'll feel better

[galacticsabc]

Go! Rocky, Go!

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[rage-cupcakes]

The other thing about AI data centers is they're incredibly purpose-specific. A data center built to be packed with GPUs is not a normal data center, and most the things people actually want to do--browse websites, use apps, talk to their friends, post, whatever--don't require GPUs.

These data centers aren't even useful in their own right.

[tpwrtrmnky]

I'm one of the people who've used large amounts of GPUs for research purposes, and it's way worse: A fraction of the power of many of these data centers could be used to power an entire PhD's worth of research, but they're being used to do This Bullshit instead.

[arsenicisanelement]

just sweet.

speedpaint below! ↓↓↓

song: do you want some tea? by hello venus

[honeylime]

$0/$2000

Hey everyone

I was just in the hospital for a brutal, traumatic 3 day stay, which probably would’ve been longer if not for me begging to go home. I’ve never been admitted like that, I was very scared and two days later my stress and anxiety is still peaked.

I do not know how much this is going to cost yet, so I’m asking for $2k to go towards the bill when I get it, our overdue utilities & some groceries (as we are still in need in those departments as well)

absolutely anything helps !!! tyia, even if all you can do is rb!

$wintersoulja / pp / vnmo: leafybb

message for zelle

<3

[mutualaidgarden]

🏳️‍🌈 Help your Queer Black girl out 🏳️‍🌈 Please boost

I beg y’all please help or share 🙏🏿 Lost my job June 16 alongside 2 Black employees and I’m currently facing an urgent utility hardship. My electricity has been disconnected since June 24, leaving me without refrigeration, cooking access, or laundry.

I’ve been surviving on peanut butter sandwiches since I can’t store food, and I can’t run a fan or AC in this heat. A friend has been bringing me a charged portable charger daily so I can keep my phone on and apply for jobs. I’ve honestly been bawling my eyes out trying to get through this and figure things out.

Electric Bill: $664/$1,934.80

Venmo: Queenloki89

Cash App: $Queenloki89

[mutualaidgarden]

Please boost. 🙏🏿 I still need help getting my electricity turned back on. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far 🖤. With no fan or AC, the heat has been awful. Every repost helps keep this visible and gets me one step closer to having power again.

Electric Bill: $879/$1,934.80

[mutualaidgarden]

$924/$1,934.80

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.