Nowhere Girl

Microsoft's "AI" projects are so power hungry it's reviving a nuclear reactor for its own use, basically.

"Microsoft Deal Will Bring Nuclear Power Back to Three Mile Island"

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-deal-will-bring-nuclear-power-back-to-three-mile-island-2000501273

NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.

A lot of guys suddenly pretending to care about "academic plagiarism" like they cared about "ethics in gaming journalism."

"The use case for LLMs is spam." Spam email, spam websites, spam news stories, spam books. Nothing anybody wants to read. Software that costs a million dollars a day to produce shit.

The only lesson to be had in the OpenAI drama is the money always wins.

People on Bluesky have been bulk posting invite codes on "X," apparently trying to boost their follower numbers to more Twitter-like levels, but the codes have been snatched up by bots and now there's an influx of trolls and Neo-Nazi accounts. 🙄