@lifeinthePNW of course, it can have *significant* side effects. Like getting pregnant:

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ozempic-babies-unplanned-pregnancies

but this time I was referring mainly to the inequality-enhancing effects, so to speak

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected linksto stuff worth reading, from 1995 (1995!!!!!) to 2023:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-1/

Translation: the rich won't just look better, they'll live longer too

(yes, it's already so, but further progress in THAT direction only isn't something to really rejoy about)

#ozempic

This "let's put data centers in Space" thing made sense...

until it said "let's cool them with water taken (cheaply, for sure) MAAANY million miles away":

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-centers-space.html

Bah

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter A LOT.

That is, LOTS of interesting things today, from 1948 (1948!!!) to 2023:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-31/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

@Cosmichomicide yes, please repost that story! That's VERY interesting

yes. The "We've found your JOB OF THE WEEK" messages are particularly insulting

@Cosmichomicide

Indeed. Data Center are the new Walmart:

https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/data-center/

#useless work, always masked as "productivity":

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/03/the-rest-is-organizational-overhead/

VERY true for me:

"a lot of the jobs you're seeing on #LinkedIn and other job-posting sites aren't actually available jobs."

Do you agree? Also:

"From the number of interview sessions to the weeks of time needed to complete all those interviews to the intelligence-insulting aptitude tests to the requests to do actual work for the company as part of the interview process, the tech industry has gone completely off the rails."

https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/tech-companies-cant-find-good-employees-its-their-own-fault.html

"When the AI bubble bursts, Texas is going to be filled with the rotting corpses of no-longer needed data warehouses — and no jobs to show for it."

(if so, the sooner the better, I say, so the rest of us can learn and get back to reality without being directly hurt)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/01/ai-data-centers-are-trashing-the-texas-energy-grid/

Economists saying tax on REALLY rich ppl would be

"more likely accepted if proceeds went to solve #climatechange than global ­#inequality."

don't say it's 2 sides of same coin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/28/brazil-radical-plan-tax-global-super-rich-tackle-climate-crisis

#onthisday in 2015, I noticed 3 Wikipedia editions telling 3 different inventions of CGI (the metal)

NINE years later, it's the same, but in FOUR editions.

German & French #wikipedia mention an English and a German, the English one only the English guy, and the Italian one only the German one

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2010 to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-30/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things in this day, from 2011to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-29/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

In 2022 I said "NEVER buy a smart car where the choice is pay for stuff you'll never use, or pay for it twice":

https://stop.zona-m.net/2022/02/the-millionth-reason-to-never-buy-your-next-car/

Now, I learned BMW ditched that idiotic feature:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-is-giving-up-on-heated-seat-subscriptions-because-people-hated-them

My new #onthisday almanac service, because #serendipity and memory matter.

A LOT.

Selected links on interesting things, today from 2010 to 2023 (*):

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/08/on-this-day-august-28/

(*) Like BoingBoing used to be, just with memory, but without ads and distractions.

After the last moves of #Zuckerberg, it seems useful to repost these

"Thoughts on #USA2024, and 9 suggestions to make them work"

because it's important to understand how, exactly, a "disinformation apocalypse" will work:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-usa2024-and-9-suggestions