Anthropic’s Claude buys compute from known white supremacist Elon Musk’s SpaceX colossus datacenter in Memphis Tennessee.

• Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space development
• ‘We Are the Last of the Forgotten:’ Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI
• Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules

Yeah, I’ve honestly have had better luck with battery longevity of other brands like CyberPower

I’ve gone through a lot of APC products. They don’t seem to last in my experience.

But I agree a proper UPS / PDU is important for a computer.

For the cheaper things, I really like Tripp Lite ISOBAR surge protectors.

Rich people don’t farm. They pay others to farm for them while calling themselves farm owners.

A network of “traffic cameras” might include other sensors than a camera.

The 24/7 monitoring of an intersection outside of an abortion clinic might be used to find women that had an abortion.

Police and others with access do abuse these systems for personal use with minimal oversight.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

5/7

Its so sad. Hopefully one day you guys get a gas station or like any kind of business startup.

I’m not conservative, that was obvious sarcasm.

I don’t like adding those, if people can’t tell what obvious sarcasm is, they can downvote. I don’t care.

No business ever succeeds in a blue state, that’s why blue states have no businesses. It’s also probably why they are so blue.

I love these posts you make

(Moving the discussion to a separate post.)

I agree that locally hosted FOSS llms and genAI models would be a better option than something like Anthropic’s Claude.

But actually my largeest concerns are not alleviated by local hosting.

• Isolation of humanity
• severing of our ties to community
• increasing predictability
• method of control

And this is assuming that this facsimile of stolen human intelligence (all open source models were still trained on unauthorized human content) can have a low rate of error.

Even when fine tuning or using RAG, the rates of model collapse and catastrophic failure are very high. And those rates compound the more these “tools” are used in the same context windows.

Plainly put, it would be better to ask for help from a human than from a genAI.

This is good advice normally, but this mod has banned me from more communities that I’ve never interacted with than I have given them downvotes.

I think there is a larger play.

I don’t actually care about the ban. I am warning others.

This is symbolic of the fact that it is an old television show that was killed by the audience and returned due to audience praise only to leave the audience with more questions.

Yes, I said that. Notice however it was directed at the community.

I don’t have proof of astroturfing, and admittedly this might be something else I don’t know the word for.

I have noticed the change is post activity from right wing conservative talking points that paint immigrants and minorities in a bad light to the posts they seem to make today.

They are both quite prolific posters which is dubious because as someone that has a hard time reviewing and checking the content that I post, I know it takes a lot of time and care to not post misinformation or to find a good source.

Their posts often do not contain any discussion or if they do, they often mock or ban the users that they disagree with.

They are constantly creating new communities which seems innocuous at first glance until you notice that every now and then the posts contain some bad source or content that is disparaging to minorities or human rights.

It almost feels like they are laundering a right wing authoritarian feed and trying their best to make sure it reaches the largest possible audience by “balancing” it with more normal content.

It seems suspicious and I hope other people are noticing or have time to research deeper. Most of my time is allocated to document human rights violations, help the people that need it in my IRL community, and my family so I won’t be able to take this on myself.

Removed by mod

I’m not familiar, what did MysticMushroom do?

I honestly enjoy your content and respect you from what I have seen you do so far, but your instance has problems I can’t ignore.

PS, I never called your instance fascist or anti-woke. However due to the work of papaskwat and donaldjmusk I think most of lemmy.today is bad faith astroturfing. And I do avoid it for the most part because of that.