LGF links are now being blocked from posting at Threads or Facebook (probably Instagram too) with no notice or explanation, probably because one of our members posted a link to Marisa Kabas’s article criticizing Meta’s climate change ad policy.
And they’re removing all links to LGF from Facebook, going back at least 15 years.
since am one of those #ActuallyAutistic people Dx at the tender age of 50 (yes, 50. and yes am older now, shut up), am not acquainted with the american rituals of national days or awareness months involving autism.
PS: this thread has generated some amazing conversations.
y'all reminded of CRAFTS IN AMERICA, a docuseries running on PBS; which highlights how art & crafts & tech & science & history & politics intertwine in what we call creativity.
JIM BASSLER a fiber artist & professor at UCLA makes some of these points.
This one rack is 120kW of Nvidia AI compute. Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI AND others are buying these like candy. In fact, there is a waiting list to get your hands on it. Each compute is super expensive too. All liquid cooled. Crazy tech. Crazy energy requirements too 🔥🤬all such massive energy requirements so that AI companies can sell LLM from stolen content from many humans and put everyone else out of the job while heating our planet.
@nixCraft
"accelerating" was the keyword in the keynote address. Which has been what Big Tech has been about since the 1920's
"May we expect that by injecting proper compounds into an individual we can make his character to order? If study and experiment can reach this result it would seem to be a short cut to the millennium".
-Irénée du Pont in his keynote address to the ACS in 1926 #techbros
To all the people who don't use the Fediverse because "didn't reach the critical mass" and "too little amount of users" and "10 million is a small amount" I say:
How big of an influencer are you? Who is going to reach all those millions anyway?
Large number of users ONLY benefit the giant corporations who are profiting out from the users. Which is isn't the priority for the Fediverse / social web.
"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."