"It’s a remarkable, eye opening read when you consider the physical, digital, & intel prop being used by the co to support its attempts to chase Zuck’s fantasies."
-J Kint
Water is critical to data centers -facilities pump cold water into pipes that run throughout the bldgs.A data cen typically uses ~500K gallons of water/day.
Newton Co, GA: on track to be in a water deficit by 2030. In the next 2 yrs, water rates:by 33%.
#AI is taking jobs, water, electric...
#Tech https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.X08.Kms1.BCiTzqKY8MTz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Pitchfork: How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music was tender, with drums sizzling like kitchen pans and trumpet that zigzagged over the soundscape’s open pasture. Perfectly timed samples leapt out like flickers of a memory…. Fast-forward to now, and the scene has putrefied into a wasteland of the percussive undead. The YouTube search results have warped into an apparent […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/20/pitchfork-how-ai-wreaked-havoc-on-the-lo-fi-beat-scene/
If it's not written by a human then it isn't copyrightable (for now).
Hands-on with Alexa Plus’s AI agent features
One of the best features of Amazon’s new Alexa Plus is that I don’t have to “speak Alexa”…
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Passionate Balance - a writhing organic abstract surreal construction made with melted Erbium, Holmium and Tantalum.
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Study: AI hampered productivity of software developers, despite expectations it would boost efficiency https://www.byteseu.com/1211140/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #productivity #Research #SoftwareDevelopers