Revolt Against AI - A Conversation
I had a great, wide ranging talk about technology with Yasha on Friday. He has it up his channel, Revolt Against AI.
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Turn on the News
The news keeps coming fast and furious. Where to start? How about the great state of New Mexico, where Larry Ellison's Oracle, one of the greatest promoters of the latest generation of compute marketed as AI, like fuck me, right, has run into troubles in the high desert.
An American Tune: Campaigns
I am a fourth generation industrial son. In the above pix, Patrick, the paterfamilias, sits in the middle. He was born in 1850 during the Famine in Coulimore, County Mayo, emigrating at some point to coal country, Wombwell, Yorkshire. He married Susannah Cox of Derbshire, who died giving birth to
Power as Organization: the Politics of Compute Networks
The above Eli the Computer Guy clip is good and important. It contains a key understanding to the politics of compute. Only twenty minutes, it’s well worth watching. Nvidia has come up with something they’re calling “Pair,” which allows AI – “like fuck me, right?” – tasks to be performed
Fusion
"To talk about energy and economy is a tautology: every economic activity is fundamentally nothing but a conversion of one kind of energy to another, and monies are just a convenient(and often unrepresentative) proxy for valuing the energy flows. Frederick Soddy, a Nobel physicist approaching the discipline form