Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024
Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI
Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators
Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust
Artists are given access to OpenAI Sora. Release access publicly to everyone as a protest.
Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object
Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse
Spines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AI
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024
Roll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’
the tech utopia fantasy is over
The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's
ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist
hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud
On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers
Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
