G33ky-Sozialzeugs

G33ky-Sozialzeugs

Cegorach | @dat@social.g33ky.de

Typ mit viel Meinung.

Nicht interessiert, aber das auf hohem Niveau.

Ich bin ja kein Nazi, aber... ...ich wohne trotzdem gerne in #Dresden.

Fortgeschrittener Anwender technologischer Genervtheit!

I walk through Mindfields!

Kleiner Hinweis: Wenn du - schon wieder - dein Kind vergisst dann bezahlst du still die Rechnung für den Scheiss Zimmerservice und hälst einfach den Rand! Du meckerst nicht, du machst deinem Kind keine Vorhaltungen, du bezahlst, hältst deinen Mund und umarmst dein Kind.

@stux My Mother had radical surgery on one leg, lived in an iron lung, and spent the rest of her life disabled. And because of the disability, she was unable to exercise and died in her 70s. But when the polio vaccine came out, she whipped her kids in to get as fast as she could. And none of her kids got polio. Imagine telling her she should avoid vaccinating her kids.

Little girl pointing to her mother saying "What's that mark on your arm, Mama?"
Mother: "It's my smallpox vaccine scar."
Girl: "Why don't I have one?"
Mother: "Because it worked."

@kbsez @cstross

Probably a smarter way to do this, but here ya go. Full transcribed in the alt text.

Hello, council. My name is Jackie McGuire. I'm a Marana resident. I am also an AI data center and cybersecurity expert and research analyst. For the first 15 years of my career, I was an economist and a securities broker and registered investment advisor. One thing I find curious that Beale hasn't mentioned is that they're a subsidiary of a company called Blue Owl. They are publicly traded. O-W-L, Blue Owl is currently involved in a class action lawsuit for securities fraud for making material misstatements about their liquidity and the status of their financials. So let's start with that. Now let's talk about the AI bubble. We're talking about two potentially 750 megawatt data centers. The cost to construct and then put the components in those data centers will be approximately $120 billion. This is being funded primarily with private equity and debt that's being hidden from public company balance sheets from companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and OpenAI. The result of this is that these things do not show up as debt on those public companies' balance sheets. They show up as equity assets. We have no way of really knowing how much debt exists. The chips that go into these data centers last approximately 18 to 24 months, although they're depreciated over five years. This is kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, which means that as soon as you're done installing all of those racks, you go back to the beginning and you begin upgrading those racks, creating billions of dollars worth of e-waste that this community will have to figure out how to service. And that's on top of the interest alone for the loans to build these data centers. This is a financially unsustainable project. I have been a resident of this town for almost 15 years. I had my children here. I'm raising my children here. The town has done a phenomenal job of creating public spaces where people want to come out of their houses and socialize. I do not want an eyesore that by the end of 2029 will end up as an empty building with no consumers for that capital, with no way to fund the debt that has been taken on to construct this data center. And for what it's worth, I make a living on cloud computing. This AI bubble bursting is going to materially impact my ability to pay my mortgage, and I will have to pivot. I don't want that for the entire town of Marana. This is a terrible idea, and I'll be back next time to talk more about the actual components. Thank you.

@Photo55 Planetary GNP is on the order of $80-100Tn/year. So this means up to 1.5% of the global economic product will evaporate if the bubble bursts right now. But there's a lot more 2nd-order activity hanging on it, eg. construction, manufacturing. I expect the AI bubble to trigger a full-scale global depression when it pops, not just a US one. 1929 all over again. Or even 1873/1893.

Holy crap what a stat

'Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. Global AI spending, according to Gartner, is forecast to reach nearly $1.5 trillion this year, putting today's AI boom in the same cash-burning league as two major wars.'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/ai_spending_cooling_off/

@pier reminder that Sam "used-ai-salesman" Altman was non-ironically mentioning building a fscking Dyson Sphere to power "AI".

It is all so dumb it hurts.

@cstross @quinn

To avoid scope creep, start all projects with the largest possible scope.

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily." Sociology: "Uh, I don't..." Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus." Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!" Physics: *drops teacup*

@datenwolf the market for cheap, compact cameras from well known brands is dead, yes.

You can either get a crappy chinese 'scamera' or get something decent.

I might not like it all that much, but I kinda understand how that's happening and don't think it's the end of the world.

@datenwolf well, there's still the whole "bridge camera" thing that's still sold.

those are not exactly cheap, but some still somewhat resemble the form factor of previous generic compact cameras.

like Sonys RX100 line?

A tumblr post; "I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising.

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the TV. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible."

Meme post. Photo of a lively-eyed octogenarian with nice gray hair a bit fluffed up and brushed. Meme text: Please be patient with me. I’m from the 1900’s.

Vorhin mit der Familie das #Klugscheißerchen von @marcuwekling gehört.

Leider recht kurz, aber gut unterhaltsam! Gerne mehr von dem blauen Tierchen!

Gewittersaison!

Achnee… nur #Polenböller (oder hier halt eher aus .CZ), die man natürlich seit Anfang Dezember überall hört.

Yay!

2025 but pictured in gingerbread

2025 "dumpster fire" gingerbread house made for the holiday season.

Trump has now spent 340 days ending the Ukraine war in 1 day.

After 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojjE

A model of a tall fortress city. Buildings are arranged in different circular levels, each smaller than the one below, like a wedding cake. All levels are crowded with lots of different buildings and towers of various sizes, giving the city a busy look. On the top level there's a palace and a tall spire. There's a huge flat rocky spur slicing the city in half. The buildings and rocks are mostly white. The model rests on a table, with some tools visible in the background.

Im lokalen mini-Einkaufszentrum reicht die Schlange an der Apotheke bis zur Tür raus.

Gut dass Corona vorbei ist und Grippe noch nie ein Problem war, sonst wäre jetzt echt eine richtig dumme Zeit für Großveranstaltungen! /S

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