Data centers can't consume water and power if the switchyard and the pumps are on fire.
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VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs.
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Today's headlines in the Daily Express! The "Give Us a Proper Brexit" crusade calls for leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), slashing red tape for businesses and enforcing a 12-mile
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@cstross@wandering.shop I have pointed out before that the only clause in the Convention that has no wriggle room is the one outlawing torture, It would seem that the Daily Mail et. al. want to tortur
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@aadeacon@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop the one plus side of pulling out of the ECHR is that it is probably the only way to give Nazis the death penalty instead of '30 years seems long enough.'
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop Comes a point where it just becomes cheaper to buy out the regulators and/or legislators. One of the things that always surprises me about #USP
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@rupert@mastodon.nz @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Consider how cheap it was to buy the entire UK as a tax haven, by bankrolling the propaganda for "Leave" in the Brexit referendum and buying a few
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@cstross@wandering.shop @rupert@mastodon.nz @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange it's not like the EU even allows those fines to go above a rounding error. And even then it doesn't enforce them.
Go ahead. Tell me a single meaningful fine the EUC has enforced.
Google? $3.45B, suspended, and that's less than 3 days of revenue.
Amazon? $746M for GDPR violations; that's not even 8 hours of revenue.
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RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874067289064749 Also: look at what's going on in Iran right now. THAT is what has to happen if you let the religious authoritarians get bedded in and you wait too long. If
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@cstross@wandering.shop actually, one of the major instigating factors for the current revolution was the IRGC performing mass executions. In 9 months of 2025, they executed nearly 1000. In the last 3, they executed another 1000. For "crimes" like wearing a hijab wrong, unpaid fines, not being sufficiently religious, or just being Kurdish.
And credible reports are saying the fighting has already killed over 2,000 in Tehran and other cities are 'a lot.'
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @davidallengreen@mastodon.green I'm on a private mailing list. One of the other members is in the deep south. Describing a trip to an enthnic grocery store, he discussed his choic
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@cstross@wandering.shop @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @davidallengreen@mastodon.green that's because as all the demolition, decrees, kidnappings, and murders have demonstrated, there is absolutely no rule of law in the United States. Only the dictator, his supporters, and those opposed.
It is well past the point where there should be a mass violent uprising replete with nooses, guillotines, and firing squads.
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@iinavpov@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop one of the reasons I basically don't accept follows from mastodon.[social|online] is because both of those places are utterly *infested* with a whole variety of influence campaigns from state actors, scummy marketing firms, and medical quacks. Especially anti-vax and Covid deniers.
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Parenthetically, where ARE all these "Iranian unrest is a CIA/Mossad black op" drive-bys coming from? There's something very smelly about the social media activity around this rebellion.
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@cstross@wandering.shop that's because those are all plants. Ironically, those plants are a mix of Russian and Israeli, I shit you not.
The Russians want to keep iran in their sphere. Israel wants the place even more destabilized so they can justify and get away with more genocide.
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This is racism. (And also, the World Cross-Country Championships this year are clearly being rigged.) "According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S.
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@cstross@wandering.shop what's even more embarrassing is that the original Nazis invited *everyone* to the Olympics, absolutely certain it would prove Aryan superiority.
And these Nazis are such chickenshit cowards about theirs, they won't let any non-whites compete. And how much you want to bet anyone who beats the 'Aryans' gets Gestapo'd or just shot?
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I think we need a better name for J. D. Vance than Couchfucker, and after due conideration I'd like to submit, for your consideration, "Beelzebubba"
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@cstross@wandering.shop Aliexpress Axmann? Dimestore Darré?
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Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "guilt-free slaves" already, your target audience already know exactly that you mean https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484
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@cstross@wandering.shop With a subtext that non-AI immigrants specifically aren't ordinary people who happen to have wanted to live somewhere other than where they were born, but are essentially illeg
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop oh, I'm wishing him a lot fucking worse. Especially since that motherfucker up there in the leather jacket?
Jen-Hsun Huang?
He's an immigrant from Taiwan. He was an 'other.' He was discriminated against and physically assaulted for being an 'other.'
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@seachaint@masto.hackers.town @elmar@infosec.exchange @rootwyrm@weird.autos @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com Perl since the late 90s had regexps that supported inline whitespace and comments so they
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@cstross@wandering.shop @seachaint@masto.hackers.town @elmar@infosec.exchange @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com yup. There were ISPs up until about, oh, 4 years ago that ran their entire provisioning system on Perl. That was it. Just Perl.
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@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @cstross@wandering.shop let's be honest: the absolute majority of 'developers' these days can't read K&R and would burst into flames upon being presented with Perl. Brooks, Wirth, it doesn't matter, they'll refuse, fail to comprehend, and insist that it's too old and only they have the brilliance for modern programming.
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"There are no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark …" Well, if you're in the UK you should delete X from all your devices because you are ONE received tweet or DM away from committ
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@cstross@wandering.shop actually, under the local laws, everyone at X has committed local, state, and federal felonies by the dozen and some of them would be looking at mandatory life sentences with no possibility of parole. And all of them would be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of their lives.
But, .
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#WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: Share a tool of your trade.
Wikipedia. (Everyone else already said Scrivener.) A lot of my work requires a great deal of research. A lot more than people even begin to realize.
Wikipedia is basically my one-stop shop for finding it. Especially with the search engines turned to pure fucking worthless slop. The paper I'm looking for won't show up there, but somebody cited it as a source, so it's right there on Wikipedia.
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@cstross@wandering.shop what spine? The man was born without spine, or conscience.
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@cstross@wandering.shop my assumption is surgically implanted slinky combined with over-starching and over-stuffing his shirt.
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@cstross@wandering.shop what spine? The man was born without spine, or conscience.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @pndc@social.treehouse.systems Really needs someone with hardware chops (or at least working eyeballs and no essential tremors) to rip out the fusion drive and replace i
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@cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run @pndc@social.treehouse.systems shouldn't be that
Yeah, fuck Apple and fuck anyone cheerleading them. Jesusfuckingchrist, you could not make a worse or more hostile design than this shit.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @eq@mas.to @jamesravey@social.lol @scalzi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I've never met Asher but AIUI he is/was a Tory party supporter and climate denialist, w
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@cstross@wandering.shop @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @eq@mas.to @jamesravey@social.lol @scalzi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr here's the shit he posts on BlueSky. He's a full on Nazi, full
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @eq@mas.to @jamesravey@social.lol @scalzi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr OK, so he's another of the fash-adjacent tories who self-radicali
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@cstross@wandering.shop @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @eq@mas.to @jamesravey@social.lol @scalzi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr not a one of these people 'radicalized' or 'self-radicalized' overnight or just by way of the Nazi bar. This guy has been this way for a very, very long time and just been closeted.
They're not 'radicalized.' They just believe they've been given a license to say what they've thought for decades.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @eq@mas.to @jamesravey@social.lol @scalzi@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr here's the shit he posts on BlueSky.
He's a full on Nazi, full stop.
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Someone who owns exactly zero normal cars. No, the Porsche isn't normal either. All toots are mine and do not represent and are not the business (and definitely not the property) of any employer past, present, or future. Any and all scraping, attempted data collection, or any other type of monitoring either by way of purchase or for resale has no lawful purpose. By attempting to do so you both agree and state that your purpose for such is unlawful and discriminatory.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @thesquirrelfish@sfba.social @etchedpixels@mastodon.social @iamlayer8@mastodon.social @Photo55@mastodon.social not only is it stupid to believe that avowed Nazis who openly advocate for eugenics and faux-Darwinism would do anything to bail anyone out...
It is INCOMPREHENSIBLY stupid to think this would be limited to the US or that targeted monetary policy could somehow magically arrest or fix things.
This is literally the GDP of Taiwan, *twice over*, for just one part of it.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social I've done the math on it. It's actually significantly more than that. Including supply chain impact, it's anywhere from 5-15% of global GDP with a much
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social and once that bubble pops, it triggers CONTAGION. Which is a big deal. ORCL crashes out, all S&P 100 and 500 go with it because "investor brain" takes
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social the system that the 'finance' and 1% class have built has basically made it impossible to stop the avalanche. (Of course the 0.1% believe they'll be able to profit off it and seize more control.)
Contagion, supply chain, and interdependency mean everything feeds back into itself. And the "economy" is already a house of cards. 1933 saw 22% unemployment rise to from 4.8%. But now the exposure is all-encompassing and the Nazis removed the only remaining backstops.
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@Photo55@mastodon.social Planetary GNP is on the order of $80-100Tn/year. So this means up to 1.5% of the global economic product will evaporate if the bubble bursts right now. But there's a lot more
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social and once that bubble pops, it triggers CONTAGION. Which is a big deal. ORCL crashes out, all S&P 100 and 500 go with it because "investor brain" takes over. The 'market' is not rational or fact based, it's 'vibes.'
And the whole house of cards comes down. Every drop escalates unemployment, which escalates defaults, which escalates unemployment, which escalates defaults... it's a self-fulfilling death spiral.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I worry how much their collapse will drag down the rest of the world. At a time when there are larger clearer tasks for all hands than ever before.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social for example, the bubble popping will instantly shock the US and result in doubling unemployment within 5 days due to the stock collapse.
Which will topple consumer debt, which has been showing dangerous cracks for years. Household debt has been continuously climbing. Over 19 TRILLION there.
2008 saw an $11T drop in non-1% wealth, and most of the bailouts saw some money recovered.
There is nothing to recover from ewaste GPUs and brownfield lots.
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Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede! "If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" i
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Photo55@mastodon.social I've done the math on it. It's actually significantly more than that. Including supply chain impact, it's anywhere from 5-15% of global GDP with a much, much higher percentage in the US.
But that's the small fry shit. Remember 2008? Took less than 10 years to repeat and crank it up orders of magnitude higher with bad loans and new forms of CDOs.
The entire foundation is completely fucked.
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Back at work on the Starter Pack redraft today, got 750 new words down, brain has turned to cold porridge, who knew that writing gud buk is hrd wurk?
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@cstross@wandering.shop vry hrd wurk so shuld just write okish buk instead! ;)
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@stshank@mstdn.social If we're REALLY LUCKY the AI datacentre bubble will burst just at the right point to leave us with a massive surplus of grid-grade switchgear, just before the next Carrington eve
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@cstross@wandering.shop @stshank@mstdn.social the problem is that they aren't doing proper grid-level switchgear. These are idiots who scream gigawatt because they are numerically illiterate. I know at least one of the 'big' projects is basically planning 12kV.
You don't need me to tell you how utterly stupid trying to do a gigawatt on 12kV is. Plus I'm not sure even I have the words for it.
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I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake ne
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@cstross@wandering.shop I especially love how masto.soc, instead of actually doing anything about the wave of fake Palestinian scammer accounts, the wave of slop generated accounts, and the wave of propaganda accounts does...
... absolutely nothing at all, instead throwing up their hands and blaming the users for their continuous, ongoing failure to in any way meaningfully moderate their instance.
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A ray tracer written in pure CMake (by perverting CMake to do fixed-point arithmetic). For non-programmers, this is a bit like building a wide-bodied airliner ENTIRELY OUT OF LIVE EARTHWORMS (nobody t
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@cstross@wandering.shop this hurts my *SOUL*.
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Footnote: During a tech bubble you don't need to make sure that whatever you're selling "is working", you just need a minimum viable demo and a herd of panicking investors afraid of losing out. It was
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@cstross@wandering.shop I was around and very involved in '98-'01. This is way, way fucking worse. Dot-bomb, they wanted at least a business plan and something resembling an idea of a viable business.
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos Oh hell yes. In 2001 at least I walked away with a couple of Aerons, dirt-cheap on eBay from failed dot coms. (And I got a novel out of my experiences.) This is just vapourware.
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@cstross@wandering.shop if we're being wholly honest about it?
It's not even the cryptobubble on steroids; this is the direct consequence and continuation of the ponzi. Which NV demonstrably and factually propped up with accounting fraud.
It's the same 'product' driving it.
It's the same people.
Except they figured out how to steal even more money, and to get governments to bail them out when it pops.
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Circa 1993, Vernor Vinge wrote that the first working AI would be the last thing that humanity ever invented. We don't *have* a first working AI, and at this rate—shifting the global economy to run at
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Someone who owns exactly zero normal cars. No, the Porsche isn't normal either. All toots are mine and do not represent and are not the business (and definitely not the property) of any employer past, present, or future. Any and all scraping, attempted data collection, or any other type of monitoring either by way of purchase or for resale has no lawful purpose. By attempting to do so you both agree and state that your purpose for such is unlawful and discriminatory.
weird.autos
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@rootwyrm@weird.autos
Someone who owns exactly zero normal cars. No, the Porsche isn't normal either. All toots are mine and do not represent and are not the business (and definitely not the property) of any employer past, present, or future. Any and all scraping, attempted data collection, or any other type of monitoring either by way of purchase or for resale has no lawful purpose. By attempting to do so you both agree and state that your purpose for such is unlawful and discriminatory.
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos
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Nov 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I was around and very involved in '98-'01.
This is way, way fucking worse.
Dot-bomb, they wanted at least a business plan and something resembling an idea of a viable business. Money got spent on chairs, on desktops, on servers, on catering, etc.
This shit? It's just straight up accounting fraud writ large.
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