The Bashing Monkey (@bashingmonkey.bsky.social)

The Bashing Monkey

@bashingmonkey.bsky.social

The recurring structural pattern of industrial civilisation: miracle technology deployed at planetary scale before anyone designs its end-of-life pathway, without question. When consequences surface, after much lying, concealing, greenwashing, no one faces accountability. In time, humanity will fall

The Bashing Monkey

@bashingmonkey.bsky.social

I mentioned ina previous post the worthy idea of a wealth cap to prevent billionaires' nefarious influence on society and the inequality of their financial contribution. @naomiaklein.bsky.social suggests that very idea. Watch her BBC interview without ads here: duck://player/6xbiorDJRYM

The Bashing Monkey

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Not one to endorse products but I am grateful for a browser that stands for privacy AND allows you to watch Youtube videos WITHOUT any ads, and boy is that a great feeling since most video feeds are still there. Just look for your video on DuckDuckGo browser and select Duck player when prompted!

The Bashing Monkey

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What about a "richness cap" like the sports salary cap so they stop going mad with delusions of grandeur? I also wonder how much the orange pedo lunatic paid to look so dashing in the front, especially given his 645th position in the ranking (that's a loser's ranking in any competition, right?)

The Bashing Monkey

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If only they contributed to society at the level of their worth, but tax avoidance & optimization, wealth relocation, political influence & lobbying for favorable policies and contracts, financial engineering, network & compounding effects, insider/board capture... too many schemes to list them all!

The Bashing Monkey

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A pattern worth noting: nearly all of these slogans follow a similar rhetorical structure to position AI as a universal public good ("for everyone," "for humanity," "helpful") while carefully avoiding any mention of the business model, data extraction, or concentration of power behind the technology

The Bashing Monkey

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* And it's also worth noting the post was written by an independent AI model when querying the mission/vision statements of the industry's main AI actors. The shared vocabulary borrows the language of open science and public service to frame what are fundamentally commercial products

The Bashing Monkey

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Beyond their impact on water resources and power grids, here's another interesting question on AI data centers: what about the mountains of obsolete servers and ancillary equipment? Digest the key findings in the article myemail.constantcontact.com/AI-E-Waste-M... and the full BAN report #aidoom

The Bashing Monkey

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So many books and movies depicting the collapse of human civilization or the entire human race. Every day that passes, humans get closer to that reality. As long as money remains the driving force, the end is assured... the only question is which! #extinction #climatedoom #virus #fungus #aidoom

The Bashing Monkey

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Business as usual with money and power at the helm, environmental regulations and protections dismantled, resource depletion, biodiversity collapse... Humanity bringing itself to an end appears as the only cure for rest of the living world. #anthropocene #endofhumanity #biodiversitycollapse

The Bashing Monkey

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Among the many articles on AI data centers and their endless thirst for water and power resources... www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d... #climatechange #datacenter #waterscarcity

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