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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 19:12:39 JST Charlie Stross

   I wish all the speculative capital being pumped into hyping AI and cryptocurrency could go somewhere useful instead—like grid-scale backup batteries, photovoltaic power farms, desalination plants, high speed passenger rail, and building car-optional cities. (With a portion reserved for maintenance and infrastructure, which are always neglected by cultists who worship economic "efficiency".)

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     ikanreed (ikanreed@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:11:24 JST ikanreed

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     @cstross you want China then.

     They banned crypto, limited AI, and built more solar capacity than the rest of the world combined

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 19:11:24 JST Charlie Stross

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     @ikanreed Yep: run by techocrats rather than grifters. I'd rather have it without the communist party and opporessive top-down ideology, but we've got oppressive top-down there-is-no-alternative ideology in the west anyway (it's just that most people don't recognize what's in from of their noses).