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„Made in Europe”? Bei Batterien ist das meist Fehlanzeige. 🪫🇪🇺
Laut einer Studie der Unternehmensberatung Deloitte war Europas Anteil an der weltweiten Batterieproduktion 2024 verschwindend gering: nur 13 Prozent – und selbst diese entfallen zum überwiegenden Teil auf Fabriken chinesischer und südkoreanischer Hersteller.
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𝕮𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖞 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝕰𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓: Three adorbs cats in my neighborhood (sounds like I'm posting to NextDoor!)
#cats #photo #photography

A precautionary warning about the @… Mastodon account at https://mas.to/@doaaalbaz0 that claims to be a journalist in Gaza.
The account followed me and immediately sent a DM. It appe…

Doaa Albaz (@doaaalbaz0@mas.to)
11 Posts, 610 Following, 66 Followers · PALESTINE JOURNALIST BASED IN GAZA 🇵🇸 🎥

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

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Sources: AI video startup Runway is looking to raise ~$500M at a $5B pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B at a $3.2B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-talks-mul…

Runway, Luma in Talks for Multibillion-Dollar Fundraises as Revenue Picks Up
Startups that use artificial intelligence to make videos for Hollywood studios and amateur filmmakers are getting thirsty for more capital. Runway, a startup that has cut deals with Lionsgate and AMC Networks, is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million at a valuation of at least $5 ...

@samsabin.bsky.social has the scoop on Jen Easterly's new gig. And huge shout out to Huntress.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-fu

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.