“The things you criticize AI for is stuff most of your tech does” is not whataboutism for a simple reason: AI literally is built into the same industry as the rest of the tech you use, bc it’s the tech industry. Thus, trying to reject AI alone for what is essentially a product of a hyper capitalist tech industry is functionally useless.

For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.

If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.

People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.

The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.

You want actually effective movements that combat the tech industry? Check out notechforapartheid and BDS’s tech boycott list.

Little star

ragebaiting my fat dog ending explained

awesome robots have an epic pool day

Alone with the world.

Carol may actually be some of the best lesbian representation ever. Like on a serious note it's amazing how her sexuality is very center to who she is and her motivations, without it being the main focus of Pluribus. (Not to mention I love a queer story that isn't all about coming out) But on a less serious note holy Uhaul omg.

Things Vesga has said about who Manousos is:

Forever and ever

susie

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

it is funny being a deltarune fan because we all have a random specific ass blorbo or two that we concentrate on hard but in my experience a solid 90% of the time you ask someone who the best character is and we just go "susie" and that includes myself. yeah I got the spamtenna autism but I am not fucking sleeping on susie deltarune

I am whatever gender has the shortest line at the bathroom

No need I think

​I see this one going places

Yeah. The bathroom

ah but which bathroom

the one with the shortest line did you not read the post

*flies past*

holy shit

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

idea by @kris-pajamas