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   jimray (jimray@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 22:51:58 JST jimray

   Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

   VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

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     jimray (jimray@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:58:30 JST jimray

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     I am in no way clever enough to make up that bit about petrostates funding AI, it’s an actual thing on this, the worst timeline

     https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html

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     Biorreactivo (precariousmind@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:59:20 JST Biorreactivo

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     • Yogthos

     @yogthos @jimray I believe parallel fight on individual/societal levels.
     That's why I train throwing molotovs while riding my foldable bike.

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     Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:59:21 JST Yogthos

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     @jimray big problems like the climate crisis cannot be solved at the individual level, these are systemic problems driven by the selection pressures of the global capitalist system.

     Abolishing capitalism is the only way forward.

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     jimray (jimray@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 18:40:28 JST jimray

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     Marc Andreessen: “And another thing! We would’ve solved climate change in the 70s if the pesky environmentalists hadn’t killed nuclear power!”

     Also Marc Andreessen: “I’m proud to announce we’re working with one of the most brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes in history to help them launder their oil money on a computer that uses ⅛ of the global electric supply to generate ransom notes.”