Olivia Guest is my favorite person to follow (on Bluesky/Atmosphere) when it comes to calling out AI hype based on a deep and thoughtful understanding of it.
This point is so very important.
It's ok not to know things.
Original: https://bsky.app/profile/olivia.science/post/3mqbe5xptsk2r
Update: I've also learned Olivia is on the Fediverse: @olivia
âMicrosoft on Thursday reported its carbon emissions swelled last year as the software giant built new data centers, marking a setback for its climate goals as booming AI demand is expected to drive a sharp increase in global emissions over the next decade.â
â300 million metric tons. Thatâs the amount of global carbon dioxide emissions from data center electricity use the International Energy Agency expects by 2035, nearly doubling from 180 million tons today.â
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/07/09/microsofts-ai-buildout-sent-carbon-emissions-up-25-last-year/
« Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said in the report that while AI infrastructure is driving demand for energy, water, land and materials, âsustainability solutions are not scaling fast enough to meet demand,â noting, âThis tension is real, and it is also productive.â »
Thatâs like newspeak for âIâm hitting all these people with my car but there arenât enough hospitals being built for them.â
Nicko och Pulver, Lasse Ă
berg och Klasse Möllberg, nĂ€r de trillar baklĂ€nges. Min nya âreaction gifâ, lĂ€mplig till mycket.
Ladda ner den hÀr om du vill spara den sjÀlv. https://pm.axbom.se/content/images/2026/07/nickopulver.gif
Den aktuella gif:en Àr finalen pÄ denna dialog:
â Hörru Pulver?
â Ja?
â Kan du simma?
â Jaaa.
â Var har du lĂ€rt dig det?
â I vattnet.
TÀnker att jag behöver Nicko och Pulver som gif. NÀr de trillar baklÀnges.
Alla behöver lĂ€sa det hĂ€r kapitlet frĂ„n De GrĂ€nslösa (av Marcus Larsson & Ă
sa Plesner), och bestÀlla och lÀsa hela boken om man inte redan gjort det.
Planera in ett trÀningspass efterÄt för att hantera upprördheten.
Ălskar för övrigt raden "Det hĂ€r kapitlet Ă€r redan för lĂ„ngt och behöver börja rundas av."
https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/skolpengen-och-lobbyisterna-ett-kapitel-om-kristersson-ed-thorstenson-och-skollobbyismen/
@iakonkret @joacim @Karolina Drar mig osökt till minnes nÀr Telenor fick böta för att ha riskerat rikets sÀkerhet.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/snabbkollen/telenor-riskerade-rikets-sakerhet
@Karolina Ja, hÀr vill man gÀrna ha en kommentar frÄn Karlung.
Dock, fem lok för bildsÀttningen.
đđđđđ
The whole segment where Trump admits to talking to FIFA about the red card is wild. I do avoid watching clips with DJT but seeing this just yet again confirms how far into the fog he is. And yet heâs allowed to keep going and news outlets keep reporting as if heâs saying something coherent. The smiling, nodding heads behind him add to the creepiness.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=ZCtIirTgOOk
âUtan att du mĂ€rkt det har regeringen i hemlighet skrivit under ett avtal som tvingar dig, dina barn och dina barnbarn att betala uppemot 280 miljarder kronor till en rad privata aktörer.
Avtalet Ă€r superhemligt â du fĂ„r absolut inte lĂ€sa det! â och ingen vet ens om grejen regeringen tvingar dig att betala för ens funkar.
Vad det handlar om? KĂ€rnkraft, förstĂ„s.â
https://arbetet.se/2026/07/06/vem-tjanar-pa-sveriges-superhemliga-miljardsatsning-pa-karnkraft-ledtrad-inte-du/
@leffe Hehe, touchĂ©. đ I remember it being given to me for free. But I can't remember the circumstances. It was part of a "business card site" deal many years ago.
I believe you're right. It's actually not. a good look in many cases, and the .us domain name not being more prominent is fascinating.
@leffe Du fick mig att börja planera en migrering som legat i bakhuvudet lĂ€nge⊠đ
BÀttre tidigare Àn senare sÄklart. Men det Àr lite surt att Fediverse inte tillÄter att man behÄller sina inlÀgg vid migrering.
When people see the top domain .ai these days, they of course think of it as a web address related to artificial intelligence. But .ai is a country domain just like .se, .de, .fr and so on. In this case itâs the Caribbean island of Anguilla that hit the jackpot.
With a population of around 16,000 and domain names being bought for $1.2 million (bot dot ai, for example), the AI âboomâ is hugely lucrative for the small territory. I think about it every time I see a .ai domain name.
Their capital, poetically, is âThe Valleyâ. The island is just 26 kilometers long and 6 kilometres across, and its shape is what is said to have given the island its name, Anguilla meaning eel in Italian. Before colonisation, though, the Indigenous Arawakan name for the island was Malliouhana, meaning arrow-headed sea serpent.
@jwcph Hehe, true.
Dreaming of inventing a hardware device that people can buy, start up and will run a server that can host your web presence in the form of a personal fedi instance, a ATProto PDS, a Ghost blog, document management, maybe even email and more, on a custom domain. A pre-installed plug-and-play VPS.
@leffe Ooh, det ringer en klocka men jag minns faktiskt inte⊠jag mÄste leta fram spelet.
@stefano Now this is truly very cool!
