@patrick_townsend My friend was a baby in Belarus after Chernobly blew up and there was some kind of day out where everyone was outside and it rained on them. She was a baby and it was in Mogilev. I was in Belarus in 2018 and people told me that if you put a geiger counter on the vacuum cleaner after vacuuming your apartment it would register a higher reading. This was in the south nearer to Ukraine. You could also see the trees with cancerous growths on them.

@patrick_townsend I am very sorry to read your trauma. Public communication has failed you.

I understand your fear.

You are left in a mental state that rejects objective facts that are crucial for your survival, as shown in the last paragraph.

Please try to realize that your fears were mostly engineered by bad actors. Chornobyl was bad, but you were never in danger in Germany. Nobody died from TMI, nobody died from the nuclear accident at Fukushima.

@patrick_townsend I agree that it shouldn't be used to power AI. But I know that the energy within fissible materials is enough to sustain us for eons. This said, I think the priorities and decisions made by hierarchical societies guaranee these failures. Especially capitalism. We can do it if we aren't stupid. Alas, everyone with any power, is very, VERY stupid. I still think we may not have a choice. Our choice is to depower, or use nuke. Solar and Wind cannot fulfil our current demand.

@liaizon

A guy who used to work for a company that commits blatant content theft is once again committing blatant content theft.

And, bafflingly, getting away scot-free. I guess because Fedi users don't have million-dollar legal departments.

@liaizon

Thank you for sharing.

I found my shadow profile on maven, too, spanning 5/17/24 - 6/8/24, but not every one.

They've stripped hashtags from the bottom of my posts. Image AltText seems to be missing or inaccessible there. And, they add their own imprecise tags.

I wonder if hashtags in the body of a post would stop them, get stripped – bastardizing the content, or simply be ignored? What about Emojis? I'll throw a hashtag into today's post and see if it turns up there in a few days.

@liaizon @djsundog

Looks like I'm in there, and somehow they scooped up a "Mentioned people only" post?????

@notjustbikes loved this!

We were in Taiwan and Qingdao around the same time you were in Japan. TW platforms (metro and HSR) all have queue markings that people obeyed with almost no exceptions. In contrast, on the mainland (and back here in Vienna) people would frequently stand in front of train doors and block exiting passengers.

We debated whether this was habituation to the markings; to queuing generally; or a deeper cultural disposition maybe dating back to Japanese rule.

@notjustbikes Hi from Nagoya, the fly-past city on the way to Kyoto, which you must also have visited? I earlier offered to liaise with city planning offices in one of the ten or twenty million comments that I assume you read in detail, having nothing better to do with your time 😳, sorry I couldn't be of service. Hope you had an enjoyable and productive visit!

@notjustbikes maybe i'm just losing it, but i totally lost it at 2047.

@m455 Lovely! The only thing I'd write in my textbook other than "see m455's canonical text" would be "eventually learn more than one".

It follows that assurances to the effect that the AI industry will eventually find ways to shrink the carbon footprint of their technology are entirely untrustworthy. Any improvements that might lower the emissions caused by AI processing are bound to be treated by the industry as excess capacity, which they will promptly find ways to fill, excusing the increasing size of the footprint the same way they excuse it now: by promising that they'll find ways to shrink it in the future.

@Taweret pixar lamp knows how to bow well

@Taweret there's so much pathos in the "oh, stairs" moment

@Taweret OMG! This is beautiful 😍

@NanoRaptor "This is Commander Jameson, en route to Lave Station. There is an unexpected item in the bagging area. Please wait for assistance."

@NanoRaptor thargoids have a new ship...

@BradRubenstein That's not what @briankrebs is reporting. He says it's the BSSID. Which is worse, because you can't change it as easily as the SSID.

@BradRubenstein @briankrebs Evil Genius
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wired-apple-is-evilgenius/

@BradRubenstein @briankrebs

The issues around this were discussed more than a decade ago in the IETF's geopriv working group. @coopdanger was one of the chairs at the time, and the utter insanity of expecting home users to change their SSIDs to get this privacy was well-explored. That Apple is only now adding this fig leaf of a "better than nothing" solution would be hilarious if it weren't so stupid and sad.