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Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower ↗︎ « How dare you have a life while also meeting your job spec! — added 5:58am on 21/09/24
Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal ↗︎ « Does this feel to anyone else as though it’s the dawn of skynet? Or is that just the feeling of the climate collapsing. — added 5:55am on 21/09/24
CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% ↗︎ « Yeah so they got a raise and we still get a pay cut, because buying power and “inflation”. — added 9:14am on 20/09/24
Orbit by Mozilla ↗︎ « From their TOS: “When you submit your own content through the Services, you continue to own the rights to that content. You grant Mozilla a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, sub-license, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display the Inputs for the purpose of operating the Services.” — added 6:17am on 20/09/24
Expert who coined presenteeism term says employers who force staff back are dinosaurs ↗︎ « I’m not sure they’ll care, they are frequently called worse. The added benefit (for them, duh) is they destroy our mental health and the planet by forcing us into open plans. — added 6:00am on 20/09/24
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents ↗︎ « *Planet killers* that just string together human authors existing sentences in pseudo random order. Cool. — added 5:30am on 20/09/24
Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second ↗︎ « I’m sure Elon and his sick cronies will care about this… — added 6:05pm on 19/09/24
‘The bear at the door’ ↗︎ « A deeply rotten industry. Head to toe. — added 7:13am on 19/09/24
Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December ↗︎ « Mozilla (corp) is really increasingly a garbage fire. Which is terrible for the internet. — added 5:27am on 19/09/24
Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs ↗︎ « It’s almost like this lie is perpetuated by capitalists to exploit your labour. — added 5:24am on 19/09/24
Israel detonates Hezbollah walkie-talkies a day after pager attack ↗︎ « In what way are these genocidal lunatics different from Russia? Oh they’re the “right kind of white” according to the US. Imperialism incarnate. — added 5:15am on 19/09/24
The Australian tenants who are charged to pay their rent ↗︎ « Rent seeking from renters - approved by the ALP (professional landlords first, MPs second), as usual. — added 7:26am on 18/09/24
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week ↗︎ « They want workers to be miserable and backed into a corner. The “job market” only serves the capitalist. — added 6:06pm on 17/09/24
Our future: The AI panopticon ↙︎ — posted 17/09/24, tagged as AI futures, surveillance capitalism, billionaires, despotism.
Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire capitalist class, bloated on the extracted value from wage-slaves, say things just to get a rise out of people? You’d be wrong...
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour” ↗︎ « They aren’t trying to hide it from you - they are saying it loud and clear. You will be a wage slave and you will be grateful. — added 9:21am on 17/09/24