I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.
Recordatorio de que el agua no es necesaria para enfriar los centros de datos, si la usan es simplemente porque es el método más barato aunque tenga enormes consecuencias ambientales.
Podrían instalar refrigeración líquida cerrada pero los capitalistas nos quieren ver muertos.
El gobierno alemán dice que aunque te mueras de calor no pongas el aire acondicionado porque contamina.
Por contextualizar, un yate contamina más en UN DÍA que una persona con el aire acondicionado puesto durante toda su vida.
El cambio climático es lucha de clases.
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.
Western Europe is now facing a textbook example of decentralised, leaderless asymmetric conflict — what U.S. military doctrine terms “swarm warfare” — executed on city streets rather than battlefields.
No headquarters, no chain of command, no declaration of war 🧵
An important rule of thumb. If a revolt is a genuine revolt for the people, to increase the power of the people, global media will ignore and suppress it.
If a revolt is organised and funded by US imperialism to overthrow an inconvenient or opposing govt, it will be everywhere.
I don't even know what to write about this one.
What am I supposed to say? "Hey everybody, they're lying to us about this war"? Everyone already knows that. Even the people who support this war know all the justifications for it are lies.
They know Iran isn't building nukes.
They know Iran poses no threat to the United States.
They know all that bullshit about Iran cutting out women's wombs and murdering tens of thousands of protesters was evidence-free atrocity propaganda.
Nobody needs me to tell them these things. Nobody needs me to tell them that this war is going to kill a whole lot of innocent people and inflict unfathomable amounts of suffering upon our species, both directly during these attacks and indirectly in the chaos and instability ensuing thereafter. Everyone already knows this.
Everyone already knows this, and it's happening anyway. They're just doing whatever evil things they want to do, without the slightest regard for public opinion or consent.
They're just going right ahead with a military operation to topple Tehran, after decades of inertia for fear of the horrific consequences it would unleash.
They're just choking off Cuba using siege warfare, which previous presidents refused to do because it would be a monstrous act of war.
They just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation, which previous administrations had refused to do because it's plainly against international law.
They just helped Israel turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot and are now building a giant dystopian tech surveillance encampment to imprison the survivors.
They just designated an American company a "supply chain risk to national security" for the first time ever because the AI firm Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its technology to operate autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens — an open admission that the Pentagon plans on using AI to run autonomous killing machines and surveil American citizens.
There's an old Frank Zappa quote that's been popping into my head more and more lately:
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
We're seeing a lot more bricks lately.
That's all I can think to say right now.