Me In YYJ 🌻

Ideas and opinions from a small corner of the universe.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

I know I've said this many times before on this platform, but the moment I learned anosmia was a symptom of Covid-19 was the moment I decided I was going to do everything possible to avoid getting it. I knew anosmia was an early prodromal symptom of Parkinson's Disease.

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@DailyMail What covid it be?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That “pollinator seed mix” might be planting a problem.

A University of Washington study grew out 19 wildflower seed packets and found something wild: Every single packet contained invasive species. Not one or two bad mixes. All 19.

Some had 3 invasive species. Some had 13. Eight contained plants considered noxious weeds in at least one state. A third of the packets didn’t list contents at all. And only 5 accurately listed what was inside.

The most common species? Bachelor’s button. Pretty? Sure. But absolutely harmful. It can spread into native grasslands and crowd out the plants local insects actually evolved to use.

That’s the trap.

People buy “wildflower” mixes because they want to help bees and butterflies. But vague seed packets can introduce aggressive nonnative plants that make the problem worse.

Better move: Buy region-specific native seed mixes. Use local native plant nurseries. Check with your state native plant society. Look for packets that list every species by name.

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

We could invest $3B into EIP (Engineered Infection Prevention), free up thousands of hospital beds & save billions of dollars every year

Oh yeah, & save hundreds of thousands of infections & thousands of preventable deaths

EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.

Make Hospitals Safe Again

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@timescolonist Too many elderly people fear Power of Attorney’s and think it means someone else will take over their lives.
There needs to be some public education for them so that they can be protected safely.

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@buitengebieden AI slop

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@BBCNews Covid can cause heart damage (among other problems).

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@BellaBaddie__ COVID can cause alcohol intolerance.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“Just so you know, agriculture uses more water than data centres and golf courses combined.”

Yes, but we have to eat. We don’t have to use AI or play golf. This is a useless argument.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m over here recycling toilet paper roll cores, using my own bags, not running the water when I brush my teeth, while billionaires are blowing up rockets and building water-polluting data centers. It’s hard not to be discouraged.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

You normalized a virus that has by the very minimum maimed 1 in every 6 people, that’s already killed tens of millions and is the cause of the most common chronic condition in kids. You did that, for the promise of a normalcy that never could have been.
The fuck is wrong with you

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@GMB What covid it be?

[holocene @holo_cene]

only 2 people bought online tickets since this post 😭 i still need 120 online or IRL so i don’t lose money 😣 please share to your Parisian or alternative music lovers friends!!

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@MeetJess @BirdieBittern

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

Are we really cutting emergency weather services in favour of AI?

"Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team—research cuts coincide with Environment Canada investing in AI forecasting"

https://t.co/HF0sP9TCPF #cdnpoli

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Whoever invents an AI blocker is going to create one of the biggest inventions of our time, and I’m ready to pay for it.

[The Tholians @The_Tholians]

@OrevaZSN

[Me In YYJ 🌻 @MeInYYJ]

@Suzierizzo1 Shared air means masking for me.