@rockgecko_dev True! There is the volume of water and runoff pollution which I think are related issues, and the source of electricity required to power them. These are imo solvable/ non deterministic things but people aren’t talking about that because the discourse is at DCs= bad level
Every major data centre in Australia I’ve looked into has closed loop cooling which would solve these data centre pollution issues in the US ones but people don’t want to hear about it
If they hadn’t gutted their EPA and if they had any sort of effective government they could have environmental standards that forced DCs to invest in the same
It’s not clear if this is because Aus gov is underwriting the access fees to the foreign company that owns the operations of Aus Standards. I’m actually not clear on the mechanics, so I’m reserving judgment on this
One fascinating line item just brought to my attention because I’ve ranted about this before, it will no longer cost for Australians to access the Australian Standards registry for compliance purposes https://t.co/PUZckGwDir
We've seen fake AI girlfriend Emily crying at her woolworths job about her ETFs but what about fake AI boyfriend Justin claiming the refundable startup tax offset for his crypto rug pull
Saw this meme today and had the confronting realisation that I have used AI to astronomically increase my productivity at the development and delivery part of my job (the part I like) to free up time to take teams calls
What people aren't realising about that DoorDash guy is that "Public Affairs" isn't PR, it's Government Relations... he's a former NSW LNP political staffer (hack), i.e. the in-house lobbyist, and his job is to curry favour with the government, not the general public
later in the story he starts a cult and causes the death of a “disciple” and then absolves himself of consequences by transcending time and space to Lazarus the dead gull, which can be an allegory for the religious/ai psychosis of self important tech types, lmao
There’s a fascinating early 70s book/film called Jonathon Livingston seagull about a “high agency” seagull who achieves self actualisation and enlightenment by forging his own path, as an allegory for the promise of individualism in American youth
I wrote about why being "high agency" is hot personality trait, and a new kind of individualism I see everywhere: one that valorizes action and especially risk. We're living in a gambler's time!
https://t.co/1P1QyoLuWl
To really heighten the tension and ensure everyone understood the gravity of the situation he should have started the message with the teams call tone… instant cortisol spike