Matt

See also Net Zero, where companies will make a bunch of token measures like planting some trees, or replacing plastic packaging with cardboard on the shit they’re selling you to replace the perfectly good devices they’ve decided to stop supporting.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Funny how incremental change only ever pushes us right. 8 years ago, Medicare for all was a purity test. 4 years ago, it was not killing people wholesale. Soon, the purity test will be “don’t hunt our children for sport on live TV” Fuck your incremental change AND your fake ass choices!!

i'm going to run as a democrat in 2030 and campaign on restricting every cis person from accessing whatever their personal most crucial form of healthcare is. i expect every cis liberal on here to shut up, pledge unconditional support to me and never criticize me under any circumstances.

Look, I'm not trans, but I am gay, and if gay people can't see that this is the EXACT SAME SH*T they tried to pull on us a decade or so ago, then those gay folks need to read up on their own history or something. We're in this together. B/c as soon as they banish trans folks, gays are next.

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

Ever fucking green

libs will be like "you believe that votes should be earned? that pales in comparison to my strategy, voting for us no matter what because we will stop fascism if we take office" and then not stop fascism after taking office

Without same-day delivery, that need is filled by corner stores. Without autonomous driving cars you rely on public transit and taxi services. Uber exists so it can sell your data. Not to sell rides.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Snark alert: let me just note that some employees of OpenAI and Anthropic already “foresee” a 10% chance of 8 billion people.

Hey you creative person! We’re hiring a creative, but don’t worry the way we work will be admin heavy and so unsuited for the things we want you for, you’ll be having a breakdown in no time. Besides, relax, we’ll probably replace you soon once one of our higher ups “has a play around on ChatGPT”

Oh, you don’t like AI cause isn’t ethical or cheap or safe? Well, have you considered that it’s supported by all the most annoying and evil people on earth?

Very cool that I can get told repeatedly by AI boosters about a "successful" AI company, make a note to look into them, forget to do so for a wee while and they're fucking bankrupt before I'm able to find out what they even actually did. Oh well!

Stories is such a good way of putting this. Can a novel be full of pain and suffering? Clearly yes. Does a fictional character suffer in the real world? They're fictional don't be a dumbass.

its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code

Big Tech used to make glib promises about sustainability and moving towards a greener future. But today, Google is using more energy than ever—they added one New Zealand's worth of energy consumption between this year and last.

🚨NEW🚨 A man abused access to a BMW app to mess with his ex-wife's car, turning the engine on and off, opening and closing windows to let rain in, and track her location. She says BMW dealership told her there was no way to remove his access, so go buy a new car. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Pro-tip: If you are left leaning working for a hyper capitalist company in the US, listening to your company's mental health awareness all hands will not be good for your mental health.

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

The new shows, and current television in general, puts focus on the overarching story of each season told in like 8 episodes, like an 8 hour movie or something, when TNG and DS9 are like “we gotta fill time for 24 episodes this one is uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what if Quark thought he was dying”

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

At Cornell, “Free Palestine” is punished. Fraternity sexual violence is excused. That’s not justice—it’s a double standard. #cornell7

“They are looking for our thoughts... They want to see who I’m messaging. They want to see what WhatsApp groups I am part of.” -Jalal Shehadeh on searches of pro-Palestine folks' phones at the border truthout.org/articles/bor...

I have no fucking idea how I could have survived my ADHD if it hadn't come with good reflexes.

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

people keep talking to the computer like it's a person that remembers things and not just a probability machine. it's been several years now of "you're right, that's on me. i shouldnt have erased your hard drive" and they're still surprised when it happens

Is the reason why you view resistence fighters as "terrorists" cause you have been brainwashed to believe, the response to violence should he "sign holding"?

after they are finished with trans people, and disabled people, and autistic people, they'll come for adhd people, and go right on through the list. fascism is a fire that cannot be quenched. once everyone is a cishet white male, they'll start burning people for being short, or having webbed toes.

Americans doing something extremely American "WHAT ARE we, a bunch of ASIANS???", "Wow, payed by Russia!!!", "Wow, losing to China!". Jfc you all insufferable. #USA #US #America #liberals #imperialcore #news #worldnews

Has anyone brought up that in half of the job interviews people are getting, they're being interviewed by an AI in this whole iced coffee discourse? If that coffee shows you're too casual about job interviews, can anyone blame you at this point?

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

NEWSNATION: Gas is $4.47. Diesel is $6.50. Mortgage rates are above 7%. Inflation is at 3.4% while earnings are lower. How are you making the case that that is the golden age? RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: Biden left us an absolute disaster. We just gotta give him more time NN: Is that really the pitch?

'expressed concern' is such a consistent indicator of nothing being done that I think my brain is subconsciously filtering the words out of my perception forever. Makes reading regular books very inconvenient.