@RT_com I would venture a guess that at least 30% of the flippant comments here are being made by AI bots. Everybody needs to wake up, this stuff is real and almost certainly coming for you
@KobeissiLetter The irony: tech prices fell for 25 straight years as computing got cheaper. AI flipped that. Now the same sector driving S&P gains is also the biggest inflation source in CPI. Markets haven't reconciled this yet.
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
@omgsidewalks You say that but 9 out of every 10 YouTube channels i find now are AI content.
Thumbnails be damned, these dullards are using it for script, for voice. And it's not slowing down as far as i can see
Hey @eastersealshq, the new read of the same exact copy for your radio commercial was unnecessary and just not great. Recommend going back to the old one
A new scientific analysis warns that the Colorado River Basin could face a “system crash” as early as 2028, threatening water supplies for roughly 40 million people across the American Southwest.
The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are continuing to decline at an unsustainable rate despite conservation efforts. Experts point to chronic over-allocation, persistent drought, and rising temperatures as the main drivers, creating an annual structural deficit of approximately 2.6 million acre-feet of water.
With 2026 shaping up to be one of the lowest runoff years on record, another dry year could push the reservoirs toward “run-of-the-river” operations. At that point, they would lose most of their storage capacity and simply pass through whatever water flows in from the river, severely limiting their ability to deliver water or generate hydropower.
This would have major consequences for drinking water, agriculture, and electricity generation in seven U.S. states and parts of Mexico. Researchers describe a “ratchet effect,” in which occasional wet years provide only temporary relief before long-term overuse and climate pressures resume the downward trend. Since peaking in the late 1990s, the two reservoirs have lost a massive share of their combined volume.
Experts stress that avoiding a full collapse will require permanent, significant reductions in water use across the basin, far beyond temporary conservation measures, because natural weather variability can no longer compensate for the system’s deep structural imbalance.
[University of Colorado Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment]