“Y— you’ve saved me! Why?”

“..... Monkey.”

“Why—?”

“Monkey! You have shown me monkey..... Mmm.... Monkey.”

wednesday night mood

Arcane is an advanced form of doomed by the narrative/doomed from the beginning because the show is trying so hard to create this serious, intricate story but the endgame of this story is everyone ending up in League of Legends

i'm sorry to keep asking for money but we're kinda in a Situation and i can't use commission money for it because that has to go towards bills.

basically my gf's phone is completely Fucked and we've been shit out of luck trying to find a refurbished replacement that's unlocked and wouldn't require a down payment on a plan. so i'm asking for donations to get the original phone fixed, since she kinda needs a working phone in order to get a job.

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$65/300

“google is free” actually now that you can’t turn off ai answers google is 5.6 billion gallons of water.

Not to be a bitch but the idea that AI is uniquely environmentally destructive is simply false. Honestly it's naive at best and willfully ignorant at worst. Google used billions of gallons of water before AI came along, and it'll continue to after AI has been left behind.

I'm sure AI has increased these water costs, but that's only because any new technology is going to increase water costs. AI isn't the root cause here; it's merely another component in a system that does nothing to encourage tech companies to find solutions to high resource usage.

It's good to be critical of huge companies like Google. It's good to be cognizant of the wasteful use of resources that goes into technology. But when we give in to blind hatred of a specific technology like AI and make it out to be the source behind these things, we lay a smokescreen for the corporate greed and broken systems that are really to blame.

If you're angry about the water use of AI, you should channel that anger towards learning and caring about the wider environmental issues at play.

But don't just blindly hate AI because it's the current boogeyman. There are deeper things at play.

...except every Google search only uses about 0.5mL of water, compared to the 500mL of water used for every 5-50 AI prompts.

One year of training for a single LLM uses 126,000L of water. Now consider how many LLMs there are (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc) and suddenly that number is seriously rivaling Google's water use.

That's also putting aside the insane carbon emissions that come with training AI models (300,000 kg of CO2 emissions, or 125 round-trip flights between NYC/Beijing) and usage of AI (10x the current level of energy usage by small country).

Yes, Google itself also uses a ton of water and has a lot of carbon emissions. But not only is Google is a single company that is broadly used, but when you consider how many different LLMs are currently in use and how each one damages the environment in colossal ways on their own, the cumulative effect of all those AIs is the concern, because left unchecked they will become worse than Google itself.

The conclusion here should not be "you can't complain about AI's usage if you use Google", it's "AI is making a bad problem worse and should not be allowed to exist in its current form". People are capable of caring about multiple issues, and especially if we recognize Google is damaging to the environment then we should not be allowing what is essentially another five Googles to run around doing the exact same thing, multiplying the issue 500x.

No one is blindly hating AI, we are hating it for being a dangerous plagiarizing misinformation machine that guzzles water/belches carbon at a rate that will very quickly surpass what Google does. Trying to make people less critical of AI by saying 'but other companies do this too!' is not the gotcha you think it is, you literally just sound like this:

Sharing prev's tags because they're that good:

[Transcript of screenshot of tags:

#genAI is uniquely bad at water and power consumption actually #because of the insane amounts of data needed to run it #it's not that any new technology will use more water #it's that this SPECIFIC technology uses EXCESSIVE amounts #and for a poor end product too #I think we can all understand that there is some cost benefit analysis at work here #like yeah sure the AI that's being used to find cancer cells is probably a good use of all that water and energy #but the AI that hallucinates bloody pin-up models in lingerie when someone puts in a prompt for car crashes is perhaps… not the best use #but sure strawman the arguments against genAI and muddy the waters to pretend it's not uniquely bad #genAI as it exists now is a DIRECT PRODUCT of corporate greed #and criticizing it especially criticizing Google by name for making it impossible to turn off isn't giving anyone a smokescreen #"you're ignoring the corporate greed" #no I really think saying "Google is destroying the planet for genAI" isn't ignoring the greed aspect here come the fuck on

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Nour's campaign is stagnating again. If you can, please consider donating. Her oldest son's health is deteriorating, her father-in-law urgently needs open-heart surgery abroad, and her youngest daughter, two-year-old Ghazal, is experiencing severe developmental delays because of all the trauma she has suffered in Gaza.

Currently: $38,005 / $90,000

For vetting info, look here.

Hello, I'm hamdi 🇵🇸 After 100 days of displacement, my family and I found ourself forced to leave our home and land in Gaza. 🏡💔 The journey to Egypt was not a choice, but a necessity imposed by the harsh conditions. we crossed the border, carrying with us scattered dreams and hopes for a better life, but we quickly realized that displacement was not the end of the suffering, but the beginning of a new chapter.

In Egypt, we are stuck between a bitter alienation and a painful reality. 😔🚧 We do not have residency, which makes every step difficult and every day full of challenges. Prices in Egypt resources are unforgiving, and the ones we brought with us are quickly melting away. 💸 While we try to endure and survive, our hearts remain attached to Gaza; The homeland that never leaves our minds or leaves us for a moment. 🇵🇸💔 Our loved ones there live under siege, and we live under the burden of alienation and worry for them. Every day in Egypt feels like an endless wait, and every contact with Gaza opens a door to pain. 📞💔 Returning to Gaza did not alleviate the anxiety, but rather confirmed to me that the suffering continues, whether we are inside or outside.

We may still have 300 days to reach the “goal” that we do not yet know, but until then, we will continue to face the challenges of life with patience and strength, waiting for the day when safety and stability return to us and our loved ones. 🍉🌈🤲 Donate now: In these difficult times, every donation makes a difference. Your support can help alleviate the suffering of families living under siege in Gaza and facing the challenges of daily life. 🇵🇸❤️🍉🤚 Please put your hands in mine and support my children🙏🙏

https://gofund.me/504921a8

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I know that many people have shared the Shehab family's old campaign, which was recently frozen by GoFundMe after raising more than €78K in donations. (See this post for information.)

They now have a NEW campaign, the link above, but because they had to start over, as of 11:30 GMT on 14 November 2024, they are only up to $1,005 CAD / $100,000 CAD.

Fahed (@fahedshehab-new) and Reem urgently need to get a new tent that will keep their children warm in the winter. (Their current tent will not.) The Shehabs have set a short-term goal of $5,055 CAD for this purpose. Right now, the family still needs at least $4,050 CAD (around $3,000 USD) to reach this short-term goal. (The odd amount is to make sure they can cover the transfer and bank fees.)

Please help!

Thank you my friends for helping me. Please continue to donate so I can reach my goal of 5k. I need this to be able to save my children and get them to safety and live in peace. I urgently need your donations. The situation here has become very dangerous and famine is killing us. Please continue to donate.

My friends please help me reach 5k . I am only $445 away from the amount.

Every day I worry that my friend Mohammed Ayesh will not be able to find another meal just to get through the day. It has gotten significantly worse as the occupation has collaborated with local crime families in Ghazzah to steal over 109 aid trucks sent in by the United Nations at gunpoint. The occupation protects them and sends them to starve the Palestinian population from the inside.

While Hamas is currently cracking down on the crime ring instrumental to this teamup, 109 aid trucks stolen is a huge amount of aid that has simply been hoarded by the occupation. How sickening that they are resorting to internal proxy warfare after failing to subdue Ghazzah's communities from the outside despite the unending horrific violence imposed on them. Nuseirat is experiencing a famine within a famine. Both of them completely man-made and orchestrated by the zionist occupation.

I don't know what to do or how to help beyond asking you to donate to Mohammed Ayesh's fundraiser so that when the already overpriced aid comes back around, he can afford it and distribute it in his community as he usually does.

eating him

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

antipurpose flour this shit will actively kill you if you use it for anything

This is so irresponsible though? This president has clearly become accustomed to captivity and while this might seem heartwarming, if you’ve ever cared for a US President, you’ll see the obvious signs that sleepy joe has lost his survival skills and he won’t be able to make it on his own in the Amazon. It’s honestly so twisted and cruel that people would film this and pretend it’s a feel good moment when they’re actually sending this fragile senior President to his death. Sometimes releasing is not possible and that’s why we have the humane option of assassination.

Insane how Overwatch went from like. As insanely popular as it was at its peak to "having to advertise new characters with promo videos composing entirely of their feet"

ham-ham clubhouse 🌻

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