as long as prompts are cheaper than therapy …

still not as aesthetic as Waterman butterfly projection

(and relevant XKCD)

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?

another case of “lesser evil”

✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

and then the looming dread of wondering if they’re going to allow you back into the country

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

—Cesare Pavese

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You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!

environmental effects

Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty

“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”

not to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare

from Mastodon:

“At this point I assume ‘free speech’ just means you want to say slurs on a site someone else built.”

from Mastodon: “tariffs by ChatGPT”

also a 10% tariff on the joint US military base at Diego Garcia …

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”