meeeeetch

@meeeeetch@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The natural gas power plant would be producing the electricity that would go beyond the regular demand. And no, there aren’t any reactors there. There’s only about 50 nuclear plants in the country and Danville, VA didn’t get one.

  Natural gas makes the plurality of electricity produced in the US, and to get there, it murdered coal, not nuclear or renewables, so bad as it is, it does represent an improvement in the American energy mix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Limiting access to COVID boosters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New kind of medical tourism just dropped. CVS is gonna make bank at their new location at the foot of the Gordie Howe Bridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I must’ve missed that Verge article. I guess that dashes my “this is a creative writing exercise by somebody in Joburg” theory.

  But we know that lizards have self preservation instincts (which for the purpose of this conversation I’ll say is interchangable with sentience (it’s probably a good enough proxy at any rate). But we know this because we have lots of people who have observed lizard behavior, not because The Lizard Farm, Inc has hyped up how alive and ensouled their lizards arev in a bid to get ever more VC funding.

  Maybe I’m too pessimistic about this tech and my obsolete meat sack will get tossed to the time-traveling torture robot. But I think it’s more likely that we have a money grabbing hype train in the tradition of the Mechanical Turk or Theranos than it is that we have created a new lifeform by feeding every extant piece of writing that isn’t nailed down (and some that are) to the sand we’ve forced to do math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the only claim of this self preservation (that I’ve seen) is this article, which is on a website I’m unfamiliar with (which I often interpret as ‘more likely to be a creative writing exercise than the average news site’) and its only citation is a company that has a vested interest in making us believe the tech is better than it may actually be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fine, I won’t complain when Yudkowski’s followers take matters into their own hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How else are they going to be able to brag about their 90 trillion daily AI users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How did the company named after the thing Sauron used to communicate with/spy on Saruman lose its moral compass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s under a certain dollar amount and not to be sold, sure, but this is probably not going to practical for a lot of things unless you’re pretty close to the border.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re planing to ‘invest’ your lunch money and get returns big enough to pay for the lunch too, you don’t have a plan, you have a gambling addiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late. I already jumped ship because of Copilot’s “Recall”, and I’m not interested in going through a round of partitioning the hard drive and installing a new OS so soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Biological AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just switch to Libre, but as Microsoft products (even paid) enshittify and as the Linux scene makes itself more user friendly, switching the rest of the way over just kind of starts to make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s bud. Like cut it off before it blooms into whatever awful thing it’s growing into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for sticking it to the chuddy guys who call themselves ‘alpha’ and behave accordingly. But there’s a bit more to it than “alpha wolves doesn’t real”.

  The scientists who observed the ‘alpha wolf’ behavior were seeing something: wolves in captivity. Which is something that has an analogous human experience in prison.

  But since there are an awful lot of these ‘alpha guys’ who have (somehow) never caught a charge, much less spent a stint in prison, maybe it says something about how, maybe, they feel imprisoned on the outside. Like maybe their school, work, home, or social life feels penned in in a way that is not healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because your dermatologist isn’t used to checking for skin cancer where the sun don’t shine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok Habsburg