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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025

  • Most data centre electrical equipment is only made outside the US. President Trump’s tariffs exempt electronics — but that expires 9 July. If it isn’t extended, then US data centres are screwed — no new buildouts, and huge maintenance problems for existing data centres. [Verdict]

    Trump had the opportunity to do the funniest thing by setting them for the 4th of July.

    At least the data centres are paid for by private companies and not bank loans. This means the bubble pop won’t cause a banking crisis too.

    That's waiting until rampant deregulation puts everything in place for another 2008 style crisis

  • New thread from Dan Olson about chatbots:

    I want to interview Sam Altman so I can get his opinion on the fact that a lot of his power users are incredibly gullible, spending millions of tokens per day on "are you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that you're not lying about not being conscious?"

    For the kinds of personalities that get really into Indigo Children, reality shifting, simulation theory, and the like chatbots are uncut Colombian cocaine. It's the monkey orgasm button, and they're just hammering it; an infinite supply of material for their apophenia to absorb.

    Chatbots are basically adding a strain of techno-animism to every already cultic woo community with an internet presence, not a Jehovah that issues scripture, but more something akin to a Kami, Saint, or Lwa to appeal to, flatter, and appease in a much more transactional way.

    Wellness, already mounting the line of the mystical like a pommel horse, is proving particularly vulnerable to seeing chatbots as an agent of secret knowledge, insisting that This One Prompt with your blood panel results will get ChatGPT to tell you the perfect diet to Fix Your Life

  • Drake used AI to duo with Tupac in one of his songs

    this is something different from what the article’s talking about, but also that sounds tacky as fuck

    Also he did it in his dumbshit feud with Kendrick Lamar - you know, the one which ended with Drake getting the ass-whooping of a fucking lifetime

  • Hank Green (of Vlogbrothers fame) recently made a vaguely positive post about AI on Bluesky, seemingly thinking "they can be very useful" (in what, Hank?) in spite of their massive costs:

    Unsurprisingly, the Bluesky crowd's having none of it, treating him as an outright rube at best and an unrepentant AI bro at worst. Needless to say, he's getting dragged in the replies and QRTs - I recommend taking a look, they are giving that man zero mercy.

  • TL;DR: They're a boutique video game company who scam video game collectors with overpriced physical releases of video games, and dress up their entire operation in the guise of video game preservation.

    Recently, their inner workings have been exposed, showing the company to be an abusive hellscape roughly on par with Activision-Blizzard (minus the rampant misogyny), with employee abuse at basically every level and widespread financial misconduct.

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    "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry"

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    Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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    "The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer"

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    Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction"

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    "Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers

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