curiosidade: quando uma tecnologia é perigosa eles fazem mulheres usarem nos comerciais, como a Kylie jenner e a lisa, assim em vez de você associar os óculos á assédio vc associa a beleza ou moda, a imagem feminina serve pra mostrar que "não é tão perigoso assim" n caiam
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: https://t.co/crffXvPqH4
i think what makes these two posters look so powerful is the fact that all the Capitol side are such established elite actors IRL, with Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys nominations and wins, while the tributes side is mostly made up of younger rising actors. like the contrast is so clear
i’m glad Ashley keeps imploring people to read this bc it’s one of the rare feature articles that splits your life into “before i read this/after i read this.”
i read it in college and it completely reframed how i think about these tragedies. just an incredible piece of writing
Without government intervention, this will mean food price increases. I don't think people truly grasp the vast political, economic, and social consequences of the accelerating climate emergency. We are not ready — no anticipatory action. No planning. We're in deep shit.
Today I’ve written to every major UK retailer asking them to temporarily suspend the sale of disposable BBQs online and in stores while the risk of wildfires remains exceptionally high.
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in water stressed areas - with no legal duty to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
In layman's terms the proposal here is to take
€10 billion of our public money, pile it up and set it on fire, in an obviously futile attempt to "catch up" in the data centre race with Silicon Valley, where ignorant trillionaire psychopaths are torching historically unprecedented amounts of money, causing irreparable harm to the environment and bringing about a financial apocalypse, in the delusional hope of finding a profitable business model for so-called "AI", a vastly overhyped technology that by now many of us are sick of, so that they can create a capitalist nirvana where they fire us all from our jobs and replace us with chatbots, and sell us subscriptions to slop they've recycled out of our common cultural and intellectual heritage, which they stole from us, scanned and then incinerated.
"Europe" does not want to "become the first AI continent."
I’m on a train to Manchester. Wheelchair space, can’t relocate. A bloke has just sat opposite me, & put on a pair of Rayban/Meta camera glasses. I know they do more than just record, but the idea that I am stuck here in frame makes me feel rather violated and very uncomfortable.