crystalmerchant

@crystalmerchant@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol they’ve already announced funding (or intent to fund?) for reviving coal mining

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenAI said in a blog post that the product results it surfaces are “organic and unsponsored, ranked purely on relevance to the user,” and that it will charge merchants a “small fee” for completed purchases.

  …for now. Remember the free open promise of the 1990s/2000s internet? This will get enshittified the same way, but faster. Once OpenAI corners it, I confidently promise they will jack prices wayyy up and monopolize it just like any other corpo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus we fucking tried this, didn’t we? SDI. Reagan’s Star Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DuckDuckGo browser my friend. The “Duck Player” feature plays YT videos in-browser without ads or other tracking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Converted, huh. It’s not already there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, free users of Spotify could not pick which track they listen to???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cars have been giant smartphones {tracking and data collection gold mines} for years now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This means they have already acquired this and are currently using it, and have been for years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  B I R D S A R E N T R E A L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao no fucking SHIT.

  I eagerly await the day when a majority of people understand that all technology will eventually be used against them by the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  S L A U G H T E R B O T S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ashley is a senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies. She is a Chicago-based journalist with 20 years of experience.

  And yet, despite 20 years of experience, the only side Ashley presents is the technologists’ side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. You’re a whole new level of stupid if you thought this wouldn’t inevitably lead to advertising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Merkley’s the man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great seeing the word “woke” in an executive order of the President of the United fuckin States

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well well well who ever could have seen this coming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If “people” = the bro-ligarchs, then sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bots don’t need healthcare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao when the “anonymous” online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to keep not paying for Peacock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s latest attack on wind energy gets instantly fact-checked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coal mining definitely does not ruin our fields and valleys either guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao there’s whole books about this. One is Life After Google, published 10 (?) years ago and it said blockchain would rule the world :) The subtitle is literally “The Fall Of Big Data And The Rise Of The Blockchain Economy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao let’s see how long it takes them to shut this down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’re talking about it openly, I bet it already exists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it at home lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny Tim Ballard and OAR is nowhere to be seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… Is that not reasoning, I guess? It’s what my brain does-- recognizes patterns and makes split second decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seen this like 10 years ago lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like he thinks the word “tariff” just means “payment”. Then he follows that with “[whoever he thinks should make the payment]”. Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don’t know how else you can make it make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the prompt, the model, the parameters, which DCs, time of day, location in the world, and other factors. They answer the question but there’s so many variables that can affect footprint (and big hyperscalers do not release this data so you have to under a lot)