wrangle enjoyer ⏹️ ⏸️

Or—hear me out on this—you could eliminate every problem entirely by NOT PAYING PEOPLE TO SLOPFARM. Then, people would want to come and engage with organic quality content, and you could “sell” these things called “advertisements” for “money”

🇨🇱🟤 Chile’s far-right president, Kast (son of a Nazi), is already underwater in a new poll: his disapproval has surged by 30 points in just a few days, while his approval has dropped by 17. Incredible 😳

A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage, including every part of the process. I did a botec and my best guess right now is that inference uses about as much water as training, and power generation uses ~5x as much water as the data centers themselves, so it looks something like this. The water cost of manufacturing chips is marginal compared to how much water they use over their lifetimes.

I like the "agriculture uses way more water than ai" argument because it implies that asking grok to put someone in a bikini is just as important as literally eating food

the AI bubble might genuinely pop soon with sora shutting down. holy fuck this is what i have been waiting for