This is total bullshit.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/05/21/fact-check-sunflowers-do-not-face-each-other-cloudy-weather/5148645001/

This feels like PR bullshit to make people feel like AI isn’t all that bad. Assuming what they’re releasing is even true. Not like cigarette, oil, or sugar companies ever lied or anything and put out false studies and misleading data.

However, there are still details that the company isn’t sharing in this report. One major question mark is the total number of queries that Gemini gets each day, which would allow estimates of the AI tool’s total energy demand.

Why wouldn’t they release this. Even if each query uses minimal energy, but there are countless of them a day, it would mean a huge use of energy.

Which is probably what’s happening and why they’re not releasing that number.

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“It’s low cost, low on energy resources, and frees up the VFX team to work in other areas.”

From the article:

and rather than contract a studio of visual effects artists to create the footage, Netflix used generative AI to create it.

Yeah, it sure freed that VFX team from getting paying jobs.

See, human beings are really a lot of tubes. And all living creatures are just tubes. And these tubes have to put things in at one end and let it out at the other.

Then they get clever about it and they develop nerve ganglia on one end of the tube—the eating end—called a head. And that’s got eyes in it, it’s got ears in it, it’s got little organs—antennae and things like this—and that helps you to find things to put in one end so that you can let them out the other.

Well, while you’re doing this, you see, the stuff going through wears the tube out. And so that the show can go on the tubes have complicated ways of making other tubes, who go on doing the same thing. In at one end, out the other. And they say, “Well, that’s terribly serious! That’s awfully important; we’ve got to keep on doing this.”

-Alan Watts

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/tao-of-philosophy-6

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By age 23, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males and 38 percent of white males have been arrested.

https://www.albany.edu/news/45558.php

It sucks that I find myself questioning if this is AI.

Can’t even enjoy cute puppies anymore without questioning reality.

Fuck the money. Save the bunny.

The whole body doesn’t match. Those must be some stupid-ass aliens.

They’re already at citizens. They wanna ship them to El Salvador. You gotta keep up!!

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-simply-floated-idea-of-deporting-u-s-citizens-white-houses-leavitt-says

If you’re looking for a serious answer, not at all. Snacking all day is the opposite of fasting. Just because it’s small doesn’t mean it’s not food.

If he actually didn’t eat all day and then had a huge meal at night, that would be it. That would also be called OMAD (one meal a day), which is a type of intermittent fasting.

That’s a Flemish Giant (breed).

Historically they are a utility breed used for their fur and meat. In the modern day, they are no longer commonly raised for meat, due to their slow growth and very large bones, and are raised for exhibition at rabbit shows. They are often kept as pets as they are known for being docile and patient when being handled.

It’s like dogs. Different breeds. Some dogs have had their hunting instincts bred out of them.

https://abc7.com/sloth-ecuador-quevedo-oso-perezoso/1174332/

Apparently, it’s doing really well now.

And also they’re called “lazy bears” in Ecuador.

Don’t worry, soon they’ll stop doing press briefings like they did in the first Trump term, which apparently everyone has forgotten about.

10 Democrats joined the Republicans to censure him:

• California Representative Ami Bera,
• Hawaii Representative Ed Case,
• California Representative Jim Costa,
• New York Representative Laura Gillen,
• Connecticut Representative Jim Himes,
• Pennsylvania Representative Chrissy Houlahan,
• Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur,
• Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz,
• Washington Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and
• New York Representative Tom Suozzi.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/al-green-censure-house-trump-speech-democrats

Canada should take them in.

Jesus fuck… These fucking people are so fucking weak. It’s pathetic.

Grow some fucking balls. This was the moment to unite Europe and the free world with Ukraine, but these guys are so feckless.

How is a one-month truce gonna prove anything? You can’t trust anything Putin says or Trump. Get that into your fucking skulls.

It’s fucking incredible how people learn nothing from history.

These two idiots, Trump and Putin, only respond to strength, not this weak wishy-washy “let’s give it a month just to see” shit.

Europe and Canada should be having a field day recruiting disgruntled employees.

The brain-drain is going to be serious in the US in the coming years if there is no civil war or world war.