Spooky Iris 🎃

Hilo de cosiñas que he ido leyendo este año (El Imperio final lo empecé en noviembre pero lo acabé este marzo). No hay valoración numérica porque ni sé hacer eso ni lo veo necesario:

🚨BREAKING: Gaza is under heavy Israeli bombardment right now.

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Palestine before war. What a lovely country ❤️❤️

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

ME HAN METIDO EN LISTAS PARA LA ORQUIECTOMÍA LET'S GO

Les señorites quieren aire acondicionado. En mi instituto, 40 y pico adolescentes exudantes de feromonas y un profesor en clase en junio y septiembre, después de gimnasia. Ventanas de par en par y santas pascuas. Aquí estamos.

🚨BREAKING: There is NO water in The Rio Grande?! I’m standing here in New Mexico and the river is completely DRY. Nearby AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of water to keep their systems cool. Meta’s Los Lunas facility alone has reportedly been tied to roughly 75 million gallons of water usage per year connected to Rio Grande resources and it’s only ONE of many projects expanding across the state. People can argue over the exact numbers, but one thing is undeniable… these facilities require enormous amounts of water and there are more data centers across the country being built as we speak. This is starting to look like an environmental disaster in plain sight. We need to put pressure on local representatives and the President to examine this environmental crisis before it’s too late.

Before and after: Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of the city of Rafah and Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV on AI: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”