"Anger without strategy is just noise." She makes instructive points and has an interesting perspective.
The water shortage is because of infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded in decades, such that huge leaks are everywhere. Data Centre's use a fraction of a percent of the supply. (They use a much higher proportion of our electricity - that is a bigger issue.) Anyway, the rain is back today, and next week...
You can kill an AI with illogic like Captain Kirk, but it takes a little bit more elbow grease than on the show.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books It would be one thing, though still terrible, if they were making the digitized copies of the original works still available to the public. Because, speaking as someone who has had to do research on obscure topics, there are times when you will drill down through a seemingly unrelated work, and find just a sentence or two, that explains so much of whatever it is you're researching. Given how shoddily AI works, this really disturbs me. Important clues about our past might be lost because of shit like this.
Saw this at the Kroger I shop at. The thing bumped into my shopping cart, then a few minutes later was "stuck" in an aisle blocking several people when it wouldn't move.
I was messing with an AI bot online. It stopped responding when I kept giving it more and more instructions on how to respond. It was taking several screens of scrolling on my phone to respond to each instruction. Then just stopped. When I reloaded the the website it still wasn't responding.
