Prufrock451

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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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🎵🎶 Life is a highway 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 It should be maintained 🎵🎶 🎵🎶 With public funds 🎶🎵

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Requiem For A Dream… On Ice

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(Via Ben Ansell from the other place)

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Well this is grim

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not really sure how this was wrong

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Heartbreaking, yet practical signage at Sherman's Bookshop in Bar Harbor, Maine! #kidlit #barharbor #indiebookstore

The Inside Out characters in my head

The inside out characters in my head

Next July 4 I’m leaning in hard on American Revolution trutherism. “If this ‘Revolution’ is real why are there still British people”

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Ha ha ha Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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It’s happening. We’re right on track, 2024

"Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule." wild times www.reuters.com/world/uk/sin...

Sinn Fein largest Northern Ireland party in UK parliament for first timewww.reuters.com Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule.

Your mom’s new nickname dropped

the universal thump is passed round

Today is a classic Independence Day: The British right was demolished by a group which sounds terrifying and revolutionary but which is actually a hollowed-out stalking horse for moneyed fuckos

If you die in a firework explosion tonight you ascend to the timeline where Gore won Florida

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Prime Minister given second billing to "Britain's Most Tatooed Mum"

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look if this country is going to have insane authoritarian leaders can we at least get one with a little showmanship

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The New York Times and glossy profiles of Nazis- name a more enduring relationship

"Their rhetoric can sound expansive to the point of opacity. 'As the great men of the West bequeathed their deeds to us, so must we leave a legacy for our children,' the group’s website proclaims." Yeah, um... ...that's only opaque if you don't know what the Fourteen Words are

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This but unironically.

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Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL

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Happy fourth

My neighbor’s boyfriend immigrated to Britain, got citizenship, and his first vote for a PM is on July 4th. Really committing to the bit

Oh shit. *smashes glass, hits the red button, scrambles for the microphone* JESUS ESCAPED THE HEAD PRISON

Same here, sticker. I can't imagine how much worse it would be if Jesus was there.