Paul Watson
Web developer born in the last millennia. CTO @sociolocal.io and @openup.org.za, vice-chair @somersetstrikers.co.za. South Africa 🌍
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- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
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- None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules. The company has no Clean Air Act permits.
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- Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?
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- woko's basilisk
- This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Hercules and Diomedes, by Vincenzo de’ Rossi, 1570s
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- And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up
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- Going to start calling Sam Altman "Sloppenheimer"
- “My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man,” she wrote. “That is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany, ..."
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- Over on X, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is glitching out and inserting information about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to hundreds of completely unrelated user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts.
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- This is the guy who wants to put autonomous robots in everyone's homes. Can't wait until they start seig heiling during the washing up.
- WTF is this x.com/grok/status/...
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- I remember dial-up internet days where it took minutes to download a single image. Now we're doing nearly two terabytes a month.
- Yikes! Out here in the wastelands, our lousy cell internet is closer to dial-up than what you have. 15 GB plan and slow, unreliable service via a booster. (I miss Starlink!)
- Me, last year www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/
- the most common job category in the layoffs at Microsoft HQ this week? Software engineering. new w/@brodyford.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Big news 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
