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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-10-31 10:40:57

“I should own every house and everyone should rent from me. PS. I stole all the furniture.”
tomshardware.com/tech-industry

OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-31 06:11:59

When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-10-31 18:30:39

AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments
— Growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threatens big tech expansion plans

AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans
Political resistance is growing to new AI developments

@thomasrenkert@hcommons.social
2026-10-07 10:56:58

#Huggingface lets you add your personal p(doom) prediction to your profile now.
Makes for a nice personal touch of living through the apocalypse, if you ask me.

P(doom) on user profiles You can now add your P(doom) to your Hugging Face profile: your estimated probability of AI causing an existential catastrophe. Set it from your profile. Your answer also contributes to a community survey on AI risk perception. Only aggregated, anonymized results will be published, in two weeks.
screenshot user profile
@christydena@zirk.us
2026-08-07 02:32:34

"In order to make a revolution, you have to discard the notion that anything one has previously regarded as truth about human beings is necessarily true. Revolution is an effort to discover or to create truth, not to prove what is true. [...] The highest level of human creativity is the constant developing and advancing of your vision."
Joshua and Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-10-07 06:58:06

Ancient Christian Complex Reopens in Syria After 14 Years, a War, and an Earthquake goodnewsnetwork.org/ancient-ch

Ancient Christian Site Reopens in Syria After 14 Years, a War, and an Earthquake
The 5th-century Saint Simeon Christian heritage site has reopened in Aleppo, Syria, after restoration and clearing the remnants of war.

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social
2026-09-07 23:27:14

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117228
"Either the “AI” output needs to be heavily cleaned up and structured by actual mathematicians to get it to actually be a valid proof (reducing the chatbot contribution to a brainstorming partner) …

@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2026-10-07 01:15:29

My department (Sociology) is hiring for a *second* tenure-track position, this time jointly with Jewish Studies. Apply to come work with amazing colleagues and students in a fantastic city!
#academicjobs #sociology #jewishstudies

Assistant Professor
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar). Tenure-Track Faculty Position – (Jewish Studies; and Sociology of Religion, Historical Sociology, Political Soci…

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-10-31 18:28:01

US data centers could wipe out
15 years' worth of progress in greenhouse gas emissions,
report claims
— They could emit as much carbon dioxide as all of Mexico

US data centers could wipe out 15 years' worth of progress in greenhouse gas emissions, report claims — buildouts could emit as much carbon dioxide as all of Mexico
The path to AI gold is paved with natural gas turbines.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-30 18:41:22

Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/goog

Google's first data center satellite is online and writing poetry | TechCrunch
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.