Google talk a lot about future renewables and nuclear energy projects, but they’re increasing energy consumption before those projects start producing energy.

So Google rely on burning lots of fossil fuel to power its fast AI developments, meaning their AI plans are increasing pollution and aggravating climate change.

It takes years to clear mines after a war, better start early.

To this day, farmers and construction workers are still stumbling upon unexploded bombs from WW2.

It’s only beginning.

This does sounds like doubling down on a bet.

Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.

If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.

If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.

I had forgotten about this. Hopefully the mineral deal has a provision that allows sudpending it if the USA stop supporting Ukraine, or throw Ukraine under the bus.

Any Brave alternative that works on iOS?

I’ve installed brave on some familly iOS device because that’s the best I could find at the time. But hope to find a good replacement.

Cromite use a third party repo, rather than being in the main one. And I’m hesitant to add repos for my system’s security.

Do anyone has some informations or sources on Cromite’s maintainer, whether cromite.org is safe to add to repos?

Fossil fuel are getting progressively harder to produce, since easily accessible oil and gas fields were the first to be exploited, and are (soon to be) depleted, leaving hard to reach ones. So they’re getting more expensive even without taxing them.

Renewable sources are getting progressively cheaper.

The EU is planning to enforce CBAM soon, and other may follow and tax import from country that have 0 carbon tax.

So even if they’re not motivated for dumb political reasons, they’re going to feel more and more financial pressure.

The years is 2025, and the USA is betting on early 20th century energy sources.

Guess what happens next.

This could further accelerate the arms race between malicious srappers and websites.

My fear is this would create collateral damage, block legitimate scrappers and visitors, hassle people with an increasing number of captcha.

Please make an effort to avoid X.

If you’re looking for someone’s or an organization’s feed, look for alternatives such as:

• Look for that person’s Mastodon account,
• Look for a blog or website. It may have a RSS feed, if not try https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate
• Look for a bluesky account, and get its RSS feed with a tool like https://fetchrss.com/generator/generate

RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

https://medium.com/@ed.sav/enabling-airplay-from-linux-1f6358c9ca1c

the company also said AI could have a “net positive potential” on climate

It’s going to get us Net Fucked by 2030

Ecosystem collapse

A non-zero number of employees scripted random daily prompts to maintain LLM usage stars.

Lab grown meat may increase emissions:

Lab-Grown Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef

It shouldn’t be produced on mass scale unless we’re confident it would decrease emissions.

Meanwhile it’s better to promote vegarian or flexitarian diets as less carbon-intensive and more ethical options.

growth has been minimal, with activity in the service sector stagnating and manufacturing output rising only moderately

Growth is very slow? That does’nt sound too bad, as it probably mean we’re not having a larger negative effect on the environment and climate.

It’s more relevant to look at which sectors are growing vs shrinking. Ideally the most polluting sectors would be the ones shrinking.

That sounds reasonable assuming it’s instance-specific and is a function of hosting cost.

Any instance should be able to set a price to help pay the bills.

The post’s title match neither the headline nor the article.

If you’d like to share your analysis I’d suggest adding text to the post or a comment as it’s a good way to add one’s analysis. But please avoid replacing headlines, this is a bit misleading.