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Each data center can “drink” as much as an entire community. Yet #Texas does not require data center operators to disclose projected #water use or report actual consumption. This makes research difficult and limits visibility for water-stressed municipalities. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-ai-data-centers-water-usage-regulation/

#tech #AI #politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange #news

The Texas Observer

The Texas AI Boom is Outpacing Water Regulations

Each data center can “drink” as much as an entire community. Yet, Texas does not require these tech firms to disclose projected or actual water consumption.

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied · 5 minutes ago

@TexasObserver
Data Centres may require madd action, crowds stopping deliveries, tirni g off water, suing officials personally, suing cities, suing states.

Dems, RUN HARD ON ENDING DATA CENTRES AND AI..

#Dems #uspol #ai

Greenpeace International

@greenpeace@mastodon.social · 18 hours ago

Friendly reminder:

NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres

EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied · 2 hours ago

@greenpeace

We need petitions for permission to start taking them apart and burning them.

#ai #surveillance #techbro #fascism #coup #oligarch #tech #spyware

Yvan

@yvan@toot.ale.gd · 4 hours ago

@quixoticgeek but... but... why do we have to work 72 hour weeks if we have the magical AIs making us all redundant.

Kevin Russell

@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied · 3 hours ago

@yvan @quixoticgeek

20 people crash on a pacific island and they all spread out and look for sources of food and water.

They find a great food source and a fresh water stream, and so, not needing to look any more, they kill 16 people.

(Humans are decades passed scarcity)

#ai

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@990000@mstdn.social

@990000@mstdn.social · last week

Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”

https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Benjamin De Kraker
@BenjaminDEKR
OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful.
Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed.
When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O.
Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? — Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")
1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus
4.5
2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders
3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK"
4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes)
The damage:
- Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats
- 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone
- Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total
The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking
"is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." — The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

https://bsky.app

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Pratik Patel

@ppatel@mstdn.social · 8 hours ago

There's a difference between how much a human brain can process and how much LLMs can produce. Cognetive load is real, yo!

A software engineer explains #AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity.

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

Siddhant Khare

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

potiridi and 4 others boosted

Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im · yesterday

Art by Bread Nugent. This one's for sale here: https://breadnugent.bigcartel.com/product/oh-deer

#art #BreadNugent #AI #FuckAI

Art of a deer drinking and a speech bubble from the right side says 'save some water for the ai, asshole!'

Script Kiddie

@scriptkiddie@anonsys.net · 22 hours ago

nicdex 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@nicdex@techhub.social · yesterday

Some a-hole is scraping my personal git(ea) server >:(
Probably some AI training B.S. and they are using a Residential proxy so hard to block.
Any suggestions?
#ai #scraperBot

myrmepropagandist

@futurebird@sauropods.win · yesterday

@lffontenelle

Kings, queens and luminaries were fooled by this machine since they had seen amazing clockwork singing birds, and the wonders of technology so, when Wolfgang von Kempelen said that he'd made a clockwork chess playing "Turk*" since they didn't know how the cam-systems in the clockwork birds worked and couldn't be bothered to listen to the people who did they were fooled.

I'm so glad I live in a time when this could not happen.

*seems racist in some obscure way IDK even know...

Engraving of the mechanical Turk A man in a box controls a puppet of a guy with a turban who plays chess.

Bongolian

@Bongolian@mstdn.social replied · yesterday

@futurebird @lffontenelle We also know about the massive enrichment of a few people at the expense of mass unemployment from the Industrial Revolution/Luddite movement. Brian Merchant's 2023 #book draws these parallels in "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech".

#AI #inequality #history #bigtech

Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im · yesterday

Art by Bread Nugent. This one's for sale here: https://breadnugent.bigcartel.com/product/oh-deer

#art #BreadNugent #AI #FuckAI

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OSTechNix

@ostechnix@floss.social · 6 days ago

Pocket TTS proves you don't need a GPU for high-quality text-to-speech. 100M parameters, CPU-only, 200ms latency, voice cloning included. The first local TTS that doesn't compromise.

More details here: https://ostechnix.com/pocket-tts-local-text-to-speech-no-gpu/

#PocketTTS #TTS #TextToSpeech #AI #Python #Opensource #KyutaiLabs #SpeechSynthesis #VoiceCloning

OSTechNix

Pocket TTS: High-Quality Local Voice Cloning Without GPU - OSTechNix

Pocket TTS delivers high-quality text-to-speech on standard CPUs. No GPU, no cloud APIs. It is the first local TTS with voice cloning.

Business Channel boosted

· 2 days ago

CNBC Africa: Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won’t sway some creators . “Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are going after new users for their AI services the way any marketer tries to make their products look cool: through social media influencers. Other artificial intelligence players, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/07/cnbc-africa-google-and-microsoft-offer-lucrative-deals-to-promote-ai-but-even-500000-wont-sway-some-creators/