"Come with me." "Where?" "Wherever you like."

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Start disappointing people and not backing out of it when they are upset, reject feeling ashamed of everything including of yourself, start saying No to things you do not want to do not just things you're scared of, do more of those things you're scared of but wish you could do, make your own plans and execute them, decide to do or not do something without basing it on who will Dislike it.

I think there’s a really odd gap in general supply chain knowledge in which people scapegoat AI as this new devastating environmental concern, when internet data centers have been an environmental problem before that. The internet already had the infrastructure to support it in 2017, before GPT-1 was released. Data centers are not a new problem. The internet already had a large physical presence, but people didn’t really think much of it until there were new AI-related developments (and then attribute all data centers to being related to generative AI? Where do people think YouTube videos are stored? The literal clouds in the sky?)

#i always think of the resistance to data centres as partially metaphorical: it is the only place people can physically attack the internet#its backlash against technocrats as much as it is 'against ai'#but i do also think there is an increased awareness about the environmental implact of cloud computing#that ai ironically has helped massively with#its the speed and the general presumption with which these things are being built also#but it is at least as much against these tech idiots as it is against ai imo.#another argument pro physical media: at least a dvd only pollutes when its being made and can be traded afterwards#netflix streams is every single time#and i know it isn't as simple as that because you have to really look at resource use and such but still

Major human pastimes:

Major human pastimes:

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.