Just enjoying some licorice 😉

This is just landscaping at this point 😁

Holtzman describes himself as “a philosopher and data scientist who writes about quantitative propaganda and scientistic rhetoric,” and he often does so at his science & Power newsletter. His peer-reviewed work has been published in places like the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The American Journal of Bioethics. He had also heard the oft-repeated suggestion that the data center protest movement was led by wealthy, NIMBY folks, so he set out to investigate. He analyzed a dataset of current and proposed data center projects alongside US census data1 and has graciously offered to share the results in an exclusive here. He came to at least three stark conclusions:

1. The poorest neighborhoods resisted data centers at nearly five times the rate of the wealthiest (19.0% vs. 3.8%)

2. Recently proposed data centers that faced pushback were canceled or suspended at more than five times the rate of data centers that didn’t (28.2% vs. 5.2%).

3. Cancellation rates are highest in lower-income areas, a fact fully explained by their higher rates of pushback.

Yeah it just had me thinking. Thank you.

Reading that China is quite advanced in AI also, and if these things are related, how are they handling things like data centers over there? Or are they not related?

I’m seeing a lot of it in the comments!

They look fantastic!

A pedophile felon is president of the United States. No one cares about your argument.

No one you just mentioned is providing any service to me whatsoever. That’s not a 1:1 example. Also, these places have removed traditional ways of doing business with them, in some locations. So, how do you get around that without limiting yourself or simply denying yourself? I’m speaking practically.

I’m not happy about the privacy issues. I’m just not sure I’d let them win over my other needs/wants.

Damage? Where’s the damage? I’m just not sure that giving up practical conviences for whatever this reads like to you and has you worried about is worth it. You’d use no apps ever. And you’d have to consistently be going with less as the technology moves on and you boycott it all. They are literally not staffing these places the way they used to.

I just prefer doing it myself, since many times I go at the same time and end up chatting with the self checkout lady. I just prefer to bag the stuff myself.

But it’s not like you or anyone here can show the damage to privacy or otherwise a fast food app is going to have versus the very real conveniences others have brought up here.

Probably so they don’t think there’s much to life outside of combat. No time for anything beautiful. Just war.

No thanks.

Still neat!

Soundtrack included! Awesome!

Were there a lot of Playstation games that included extras on the disc like that? Usually you see this with PC games. Or separate discs even (maybe that’s the case here but not pictured?). Neat to see it included for a console game, and of this age.

Way to go IOI!

Her alter eggo

It reads to me that the event occurred billions of years ago, not the naming.

The blur came back for me after refreshing, but after following the bluesky link above I found the very same article on this site.