The worst thing is the majority of these aren’t like the AI your little brother uses when he logs into the chatgpt app. Like that contributes a little. But the real issue is that Tech companies have implimented LLMs literally everywhere in their workflows and data and services and this is taking up a ridiculous amount of computational power. These enterprise level implementations and speculative integrations (ie. adding AI somewhere that a corpo things will help but literally no one asked for it), is whats driving the biggest rise.

I’m new to this instance, but it being named after quokkas is like my favourite thing ever.

Join the quokk.au instance 😂

But in common usage it’s quite different. Like if your friend sends a pretty selfie you’ll be like “mashallah” or if your brother passes their exam, etc. Hence the comparison to “slay”.

I often heard it translated as “as god has wished” from Arabic languages (ma sha allah).

It’s a shame the mongabay website doesn’t let you properly see the high quality versions or zoom in.

In fact, it appears we live in a giant cosmic void with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter.

Okay that’s a little less dramatic than I envisioned given the use of the word “void”

“Praying Barbie” 😭 ROFL

Also People:

Let me install bee boxes with hundreds of thousands of invasive bees to harvest honey.

(which will obviously end up outcompeting the native ones)

and then suprised pickachu face when the natives do indeed decline after you add hundreds of thousands of invasives.

Nice. If the harvest is large I’m sure you’re gonna make some neighbours and friends happy!

Use the Windscribe 10gb per month free. It works well. And if you need more use RiseUpVPN. But note it is slow. And that its completely free and volunteer run. It’s the kind of thing that if you get an income you should probably donate to if you used a lot. It’s mainly used by activists in authoritarian countries.

I’m so fucking jealous of Randall Monroe. They’ve got the coolest job.

This actually matches my experience. Chatgpt will talk to me about dismantling the state if I tell it to be anarchist while Gemini will lecture me about a “extremist ideology”

Ooo this is cool.

I hope they add support for Nodebb and Qwant.

Holy whit what a read. The political pressure and bureaucratic nightmare of this all is really jarring.

What. I thought they were supposed to be the jewel of american culture. I didn’t know they were basically extinct from the lower 48.

Delete all browsers. Only access the web using curl.

Perhaps the point is to fix it up a little before getting more folks to join?

Okay, but are we gonna talk about how Lagos, Nigeria will become a ski resort town?