The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI.
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The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI. It's not in any way a public need for public good. It's a private and public want. If you turned off every major GAI tomorrow nothing would demonstrably change except for our power consumption would go down and nvidia's stock would crash.
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@tankgrrl @_elena Help to people with disability _is_ a public service IMHO. But, there's a but: to be a public service it should respect more ethics, sustainability, 100 percent unbiased.
For the rest, true: it is not a need. Although we should even wonder what is exactly "a need", going deep down, even Internet wouldn't be "a need" - not like water, and not like sleep or food. (1/2)Btw let me say: capitalism creates the problem (let's even say visual-based environment) and then builds the solution (AI able to describe images) (2/2)
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The enormous elephant in the room regarding the increasing demands on our electricity grid is simply this: we don't actually _need_ AI. It's not in any way a public need for public good. It's a private and public want. If you turned off every major GAI tomorrow nothing would demonstrably change except for our power consumption would go down and nvidia's stock would crash.
@tankgrrl @_elena Help to people with disability _is_ a public service IMHO. But, there's a but: to be a public service it should respect more ethics, sustainability, 100 percent unbiased.
For the rest, true: it is not a need. Although we should even wonder what is exactly "a need", going deep down, even Internet wouldn't be "a need" - not like water, and not like sleep or food. (1/2)
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@ro A me sembrava che in ogni discussione di questo tipo si continui a ignorare l'elefante nella stanza. Quando sono nata, sul pianeta c'erano poco più di tre miliardi di persone. In sessant'anni, quindi, il nostro carico sul pianeta è quasi triplicato. In queste condizioni, qualunque sia il modo in cui produci e trasporti energia, alimenti e ogni altro oggetto non può non avere un impatto devastante.
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Good news and bad news.
The good news is that I am working on a very heartfelt keynote for Fediverse Day Berlin! I think it contextualizes why our work matters in a way that I think will resonate with people.
But the bad news is... I will not be there in person. :( I'm really sorry, some last minute things came up. I know a lot of people were hoping to see me.
I'll be participating remotely in a live Q&A. I know it's not the same though. I'm sorry again, wish I were there. 💜
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@Archimed3 in tutto questo io ci vedo sempre più la generale decadenza dei servizi in abbonamento (mai usato il game pass per fortuna, ma ho amici che stanno tirando allegri porconi :'D)
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Ecco l’elenco degli italiani fermati dall’esercito di Israele. Articolo 21 si unisce alla richiesta di liberarli subito
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2025/10/ecco-le…
E’ stato reso noto
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AGITAZIONE PERMANENTE
Dopo l'attacco alla #GlobalSumudFlotilla da parte delle forze israeliane ieri sera, anche a #Reggio si è creato un corteo spontaneo fortissimo, rumoroso e deciso nel ribadire che la nostra città sa chiaramente da che parte stare. Dalla parte del popolo palestinese e dalla parte di chi resiste.Ieri in un presidio chiamato in brevissimo tempo siamo
https://cittamigrante.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/02/agitazione-permanente/
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Oltre il prato del cipresso, nelle buche della Sughera, palchi di cervo, Ecco fa gli occhi dolci ai tartufi 💚
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@floreana post-edit comment: see, that's your problem, you should be using the US International layout with dead keys ;-)
(I joke, you should use whatever you feel most comfortable with, but US Intl has all accent and diacritics available via composition and dead keys. One layout to rule them all.)
If you have a Compose key enabled, compose e = should give you the € symbol. Otherwise, you'll need to enable the eurosign:e option for the keyboard layout (not sure how it's done via GUI)
