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  • After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — State regulators crack down, governor says move…

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  • pay for all the required transmission infrastructure that the project will use exclusively.

    Emphasis mine. If the AI buildout can claim that the line will serve as a secondary entry point for a neighbourhood they’re not going to pay.

  • Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

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  • I often say that I should quit and start up a goat farm but aside from economic reality, I know that in a number of years I’ll burn out on that too. I’ve done manual labour shovelling mud through months of 5°C rain. It’s not fun. I know that. But still when the weather starts being nice I imagine that I want to go work filling potholes or something manual labour that is “fulfilling”.

    I think we’re just a bit too comfortable - and bored.

    There’s also a lot of people in the middle of their career who “learned computers” as kids and went into a career they were excited about. Now, tech isn’t exciting. Tech companies are building surveillance state apparatus to sell ads. That’s a pretty tough sell to someone who joined hoping to build something that will make the world better.

  • $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans

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  • I skipped the 17 which was supposed to be my partner’s upgrade. I am anticipating regretting that decision.

  • $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans

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  • It’s crazy and the chips that are ostensibly taking up all the dram are sitting on shelves waiting for data centres to be built so that they can be racked.

  • You make $65,000 (USD 🤢) in a dead end career...

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  • No dependents? Big.

    Do you have shelter and food accounted for in a reliable way? That’s really what matters.

  • Ecosystem services

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  • Fun fact: rats can’t vomit.

  • TIL Raytheon has an ethics department

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  • We need a mole in that organisation feeding government entities the ideas that are discarded for cost.

  • TIL Raytheon has an ethics department

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  • A division of the marketing division no doubt. Like the environmental department at most companies.

  • Universities would prefer no AI

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  • Universities are supposed to teach understanding, and research skills. AI shortcuts are the antithesis of understanding.

  • Runk

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  • I think it’s worth noting there’s few people like Jobs and more like Gates but they’re all psychopaths.

  • help wanted

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  • I wish I was their credit card, because then I might finally be in a happy relationship with someone who loves to use me this hard.

    Gonna need to remember that.

  • Judge denies xAI effort to halt ban on tech that depicts people nude without permission

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  • The thing that interests me is that a local business person would see this law and say “fine, no porn”. Remember, when Yahoo bought tumblr, they sank it by banning porn!

    So to me this suggests they can’t figure out how to make their LLM reliably not produce pornography.

  • Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.

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  • Apple’s AI strategy is leaving them behind

    Apple’s stock drops on failure to meet AI promises

    Etc.

    Now whose stock is dropping?

  • "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

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  • Imagine thinking a LLM can create new research.

    There’s a problem with an overabundance of PhD candidates. There’s a massive reproducibility crisis. Journals are a for profit enterprise.

    LLMs certainly amplify these problems. Is it the end of advanced education? I’m sceptical. There are still people who are resisting the adoption of these tools and doing things the hard way.

  • When people tell me AI will eventually replace everyone

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  • I remember reading a presser about how this cloud vendor was using robots for all kinds of tasks in their datacentre and it was super efficient because automation. But it never actually happened. They still have humans racking servers. The last 10% is hard.

  • The offer to pay more for the same finally pushed me to cancel Apple Music. What is a good alternative that's not loaded with ads?

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  • Well, a few years ago it was $9.99, and in a few years it’ll be $12.99. That extra dollar indeed is a problem.

  • US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search

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  • There’s a bunch of legislation and case law saying that searches are OK within x (50?) miles of a border crossing which covers something like 90% of the population because they count international airports.

    So it might get sticky for the person.

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    Short Sellers Are Going Hog Wild Against SpaceX as Its Stock Craters

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  • SpaceX will be worth more than Earth if we achieve our goals," stating without evidence that his extremely far-fetched prediction was "obviously true."

    Musk has been spending too much time with a sycophantic ego stroking LLM.

  • Neil Patrick Harris once hosted a party where he served a meat platter designed to look like a hyper realistic depiction of Amy Winehouses rotting corpse

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  • It’s a macabre idea at best but to make it intentionally similar to a real person is grotesque.