The (Data) Centre Cannot Hold feat. Paris Marx
Added 2024-10-08 19:16:44 +0000 UTCParis Marx of Tech Won’t Save Us joins the gang to discuss his new limited series, Data Vampires, all about how data centers (shock horror) really aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, and instead just act as gigantic drains on the resources of the localities in which they are based. Also, we discuss one year of western media and political cover for Israel’s actions in Gaza and its neighbouring states, and reflect on the people who revel in making “humanity” a more contingent condition than ever.
Check out Data Vampires here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-vampires-going-hyperscale-episode-1/id1507621076?i=1000672024900
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Much as I enjoy the deliberate impressions, holy fuck does Milo(?) make a good Seinfield at about 58 and a bit minutes. My half-drunk brain went straight into images of Ovaltines and overtly shrilling displays of depuissance.
Andreas
2025-01-29 23:13:12 +0000 UTCChagos yer problems, and I gos mine 🎶🎵
Michael Hopwood
2024-10-14 14:26:12 +0000 UTCLucky straight up talks like a Metal Gear Solid antagonist. "These western countries that like to pretend to be moral" needing to just let robots start killing whoever they want
-Kris-
2024-10-14 00:50:32 +0000 UTCmy job’s mandatory annual “don’t take bribes” course for this year used Taylor swift tickets as an example of a hypothetical bribe, which means Labour Party officials’ bribing scandals are on par with those for mid-sized companies in corporate America
hill
2024-10-10 18:54:14 +0000 UTCElon Musk says "stairs" the way that british south-african lady November always talks about says pedophile (pheeedauuuophaaaaaauyile). I can't google her name. All I get is unsurprising reports of sex crimes by south-african british people. Also don't care. You know the one. ...Yes, that's right; that's her name. Eleneaor "Rose of Rhodesia" Roosevelt Warcrimes III. I know that cunt from anywhere. I can feel her coming ten miles before she crosses my doorstep.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-10-10 17:39:03 +0000 UTCyear 2036, world is on the brink as the world community gathers around the very first supersentient AI machine to ask it the most important question ever: "how do we solve climate change" the machine displays a spinner for 7.2 seconds before printing: "first, build more electric trains and bike lanes" the world leaders rage, fume, cope, seethe "you were supposed to say something else!"
etienne
2024-10-10 16:31:31 +0000 UTCSome people just can't get past blaming Arabs for the continued conflict. My parents are boomer Jews (Jewmers?) and they won't come any closer than hating Bibi and "wanting peace." It's not that Israel is a fundamentally undemocratic country built on land stolen from people it perpetrates a genocide against, it's that the Palestinians supposedly don't want peace.
Man2quilla
2024-10-09 22:44:19 +0000 UTCThis is the future that those fortnight stream/family guy episode/soap cutting asmr videos have been training us for
Uriah Wilson
2024-10-09 21:48:22 +0000 UTCAdam thought of a good lick back to his dad getting called Simon fart but it was sever years too late so he had to write the article to get it out if his system.
12345
2024-10-09 20:26:44 +0000 UTCThis Tory son article is clearly a man who took a decade to think of a response to getting made fun of at school and wanted the chance to lick back.
12345
2024-10-09 19:48:36 +0000 UTCyall ever think that we are becoming a bribe based economy where the only way these companies see fit to build horrible stuff is to dangle jobs for the voters and give football tickets to officials, because the actual thing they are building has no compelling points
Insom
2024-10-09 14:11:57 +0000 UTCYou're a platoon sergeant in a future conflict. You're trying to deal with the enormous sensory overload of modern small unit combat while also monitoring your battalion net, the fires net, listening to what your own guys are up to on your ICOM, paying attention to your drone guy, keeping track of what the FAC that's attached to your unit is doing, while also trying to do the stuff you need to do to win this engagement. All the while Clippy is dancing in the edge of your vision letting you know that you're 119 days overdue for your MANDATORY motorcycle safety refresher course.
Peevish Giraffe
2024-10-09 14:09:07 +0000 UTCreminds me of this guy i met a house party in february who spent the whole night lying about his job to everyone before eventually admitting that he worked for the labour party (looked him up and he was the parliamentary assistant to labour mp sharon hodgson who is the vice-chair of LFI)
livia
2024-10-09 13:58:18 +0000 UTCAbbots Langley getting grabbed for data centres is my "seeing videos of disaster on your phone until eventually you're the one holding the phone shooting the video". At least I might be able to buy property back near my parents once they're done making the area suck
Nah
2024-10-09 13:01:12 +0000 UTC‘no it was online before you were just a child’ 😂
Nina
2024-10-09 11:05:38 +0000 UTCcan’t wait for you to be cancelled over criticising a 24-year-old with his undeveloped pre-frontal cortex
Nina
2024-10-09 11:04:22 +0000 UTCHe is literally Kevin spacey in advanced warfare
Erin Taylor
2024-10-09 09:10:07 +0000 UTCI work at a data center and there are only 15-20 that actually work there.
John the penguin
2024-10-09 07:26:07 +0000 UTCIf we get a Warrior class... We'll inevitably end up with a warrior class without masters roaming the country. Maybe by train. The return of the Railroad Ronin.
Josep C.
2024-10-09 05:35:46 +0000 UTCmuch older, chicago burbs take: big John Hughes movie protagonist name
Shivvy
2024-10-09 03:38:26 +0000 UTC"Oh you think that this election is a laugh riot, don't you? Well I'll tell you something that's not so funny: right now my dad Simon Hart is at home CRYING like a LITTLE GIRL!"
Ian Priest
2024-10-09 02:06:31 +0000 UTCRe: Palmer Whogivesashit claiming he's of the warrior class because he's a highly abstracted and derived blacksmith, as a former operator of said weapons of state violence, that he would say "you need a sicko like me who won't lose any sleep over making the tools of violence" is all the evidence you need that he should under no circumstances be allowed to make the tools of violence.
Tzippi of Tide and Tempest
2024-10-09 00:36:37 +0000 UTCAniara but starring Donald Trump as the Mimarobe
John Her
2024-10-08 23:46:16 +0000 UTCok that guy from the article in the last like 15 minutes seems to think like SEL takes place in like 2014
Lain of the Wired
2024-10-08 22:12:52 +0000 UTCso i did guard data centers in a skyscraper unfortunatly i was the only security guard for the entire 14 floor building so idk about the 40 guys
Lain of the Wired
2024-10-08 21:45:39 +0000 UTCPalmer luckey is the spitting image of a controversy-proof stateless white guy villain from a call of duty game set in the near future who comes back as an ally to help fight a Chinese guy who's Russian in the next game at the request of the developers' DoD advisor/patrons
Jack
2024-10-08 21:26:04 +0000 UTCGrimly funny that data centres are actually doing the sort of damage to people around them that wind farms are alleged do by conspiracy theories.
UltraCoil
2024-10-08 21:00:14 +0000 UTCthe three stigmata of palmer lucky
Moira Brown
2024-10-08 19:40:09 +0000 UTC
