Streaming video? Working from home in the cloud? You're using data centres. Watching people make viral socmed anti-DC material is apex NIMBYism. I'd respect the effort if it was more self aware. DCs shouldn't be allowed to use drinking water and should be required to use carbon neutral energy.

Data centers are the backstage workers of social media: when you post, scroll or share, your request goes to a DC where servers store, process & send information back. cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/pap... In other words, when you complain about DCs on social media, you're using DCs to do it.

One of these days we'll use #AI to do what it does best instead of trying to disenfranchise human beings. The #AIbubble is entirely a result of marketing a failed opportunity wealth centralization & control. Billionaires got excited by a world without people a bit too soon.

Turn your business processes into an income stream by selling what you're doing as #AI training data? Do that and it won't be your business any more. Ask all those ex-Meta employees what happens once AI has digitized your processes.

Big enough fires create their own weather producing lighting that cause more fires. Can you feel the tipping point coming? www.rmets.org/metmatters/p... Meanwhile, in Toronto every day is a miserable commute putting another 25,000 tonnes of CO₂‑equivalent into the sky. #onpoli

"Water-cooled systems have a higher potential for heat recovery, leading to greater environmental benefits. Future research will be focused on using the results from this study to investigate options for heat reuse from sea water cooled systems" vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/aaafcc...

" #AI is concentrated in high-income, English-language contexts. Economic studies are biased towards advanced economies, large firms & formal work. AI evaluation infrastructure remains linguistically & geographically concentrated" Modern colonialism automated, in'tit? www.un.org/independent-...

github.com/szaniewski/E... Entangled Cat is a hybrid rules-and-data project for a card game that teaches #quantum concepts. Players assemble quantum circuits, manage stability & execute algorithms before opponents collapse the system. #cdned #onted @staoapso.bsky.social Future skills.

Remember that time everyone used data centres to complain about data centres? Like using nuclear generated electricity to complain about nuclear power, or complaining about the climate crisis from your Hummer. If you spend a lot of time on social media, you are directly supporting data centres.

metaviews.substack.com/p/310-the-end "We’re in a wilderness of pain and all the children are insane." The only way to face the end of the world is with poetry. Nicely done, Jesse.

“was a hack executed by a well-known criminal who is wanted in the United States" A mighty hacker who knows how to inspect a webpage. www.wired.com/story/dialog...

Despite clear prompts directing it to not fabricate data, the AI ignored them and answered using the least amount of time/resources preferring to fabricate. The long and the short of this? Human meticulous research beats the bot because the bot is constrained by a variety of hidden constraints.

#ai "lowers barriers for malicious actors and increases the speed & complexity of attacks, shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery & exploitation" Pretty much word for word what I said at RICET25 last year while Microsoft said, 'don't worry about it, buy our AI cloud solution.'

Widow's Bay is on fire tonight.

The great Canadian connectivity project was railways back in the day. It should be developing a network backbone that requires Canadian businesses to communicate within our borders while offering privacy ensured connections between Europe & Asia. Not as sexy as AI? @mark-carney.bsky.social

I went straight to level three because data sovereignty is impossible in #Canada when our monopolistic connectivity providers route most of our traffic through US IPXs because they are cheaper. As usual @canadianshieldinstitute.ca has their eye in on the scope of our dependency. #cdnpoli

Fry (what kind of stupid made up name is that?), a guy who likes coffee, and dog made this! You should use it! pi-hole.net

Just returned from NIST's National Institute for #cybersecurity #Education conference in Philly. I'm surprised at the organization & integration between federal, state & municipal governments along with postsecondary & K12 partners: niceconference.org/agenda/ The sharing & community was exceptional.

Entry level jobs evaporate and the senior positions reap the reward.

Digital is fake. The real begins when you step away from it.

Exploited and Underutilized: #Canada ’s Broken Data Economy drive.google.com/file/d/1ItqW... Canadians feel surveilled & exploited while vast troves of high-value institutional data sit unorganized & untapped." #cdnpoli

bsky.app/profile/isol... Can't tell if this is better or worse...

Free to use by any Canadian educational institution and, as with all Chatterhigh material, Il vous fournit du matériel français actuel dans un contexte canadien. And you get a certificate at the end... #bced #abed #sked #mbed #onted #qced #nbed #nsed #cdned

Aggressive #AI scrapers constantly change their names & IP addresses to bypass basic blocks to stealing your content. To stop them completely, you need advanced security: CAPTCHAs Rate Limiting Behavioral Analysis

“AI washing is pervasive right now. Some of the organizations and leaders who are claiming layoffs due to #AI have very self-interested points of view.” "all the problems that which are actually on the critical path to AGI now demand that (↓↓↓) level of compute"

"Most critically, we earn meaning through cognitive cost, while it produces confidence without cognitive labor"

@stratfest.bsky.social telling it like it is (perhaps unintentionally)... Sorta like the preview of Waiting for Godot (which was brilliant!). #cdnpoli

Clumping these together as they all point to what's coming next, and it ain't good. The Dead Economy Theory www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-e... How to advertise in an LLM matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf... Google Zero www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a... Google eating the data ecosystem it grew in.