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remember the 621 rule at furry cons:

stop browsing e621 you're overloading the hotel wifi

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

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#datacentre #ai

- SpaceX IPO has been one of the worst ever starts for a major stock, dropping $1 trillion in value in just a few weeks.

- Google’s cash flow has turned negative for the first time ever because of spending on generative “AI” that has yet to return any profits to either the firms that make it or the firms that have adopted it.

- More than a quarter of people in the US have an active online sports betting account.

What’s the common theme?

A scam economy, since late stage capitalism and capitalist consolidation have left fewer opportunities for capitalists to collect rents through ordinary processes like “owning a firm that makes and sells something.”

ffmpreg

@StardustWhip if I'm looking to commission an artist, a reasonable gallery of past works has so much to show - whether I like their style & think it'd suit my ideas, am I thinking of something they'd be kinda ok with

and in these times, a long lived gallery can even be decent proof you're dealing with an artist producing their own work

@owashe fantasising about a Hawaiian local version of thhe map with Big Hawaii filing the map, US & Alaska in a box in the corner

@Nerts chugging on that wine dark sea & getting so lost even the drunk taxi won't help

@ActuallyAubrey slow blinking for friendliness, directly into the cat's gays

discussions in a telegram channel & all I can think is "A.I. Shipman, what's the worst that can happen?"

when you learn from AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d696t3yALAY

Me during the “smart contracts” craze: guys, keeping track of what contract you signed is not the hard part

Tesla: hold my bible

https://electrek.co/2026/07/23/tesla-solar-lease-contract-book-of-enoch/

@volpeon well, Po-land is in the EU

@StardustWhip you're posting art into the collective stream of consciousness & don't have an archive? like a gallery page where we can see what you drew last month?

posting at the mercy of hoping people see your art as it flashes by

@Owlor yeah, I like a good ipa but if I'm out for more than a couple of beers, I want something more moderate that's not gonna drop me in 2 pints

Scanning the beer aisles in Asda & some of these sound lush, but I'm not in a 7% mood

I know IPAs get strong but sometimes it's "calm down lads, I want a normal beer for a normal person"

@owashe and I don't get what the problem is that it's trying to solve

@owashe I'm in tech & it still feels fishy to me

replacing a password I could use for a website at any time with "you better not lose your phone"

I've yet to see anything in passing about advantages, it's another "please use this now" instruction from a shitty industry

@donni

Relevant:

after being on 2 tickets in a row that were both absolutely shite & longer than estimated tickets, was good to get review confirmation that "yeah, they are both crap, it's not me being here without a clue"