Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.

[michaelc@scholar.social]

@sundogplanets Gotta say... that fact wasn't all that fun.

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

That is not what that phrase is supposed to mean.

[sophie@hub.somaton.com]

@Prof. Sam Lawler this is freaking grotesque!

[cafechatnoir@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

Oh.

Well, I didn't need to sleep ever again.

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets
Musk is a danger to life on earth

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets "... But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."

[calum@mastodon.dazed-gerbil.com]

@sundogplanets thanks for that 🥺

[sauc3@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets

Why can't we have the future where we are led by scientists and not the stupidest assholes?

[albertojavier@universeodon.com]

@sundogplanets let's take a moment to remember those idiots who spent years talking straight sh!t about the so-called chemtrails. Chemtrails don't exist, idiots do..

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

AiWinter is the secret solution to the "Cooking to death" climate collapse.

See? Broligarchs were right when they said AI fill fix #climatecollapse

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@n_dimension @sundogplanets

sadly, "fix" in the veterinary sense of the word...

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@sundogplanets Guess it's a good thing it's a near-impossibility to get that many into the atmosphere though it's not like I want half of that number either, even a tenth feels like a lot.

[malcircuit@thingy.social]

@sundogplanets seems fine

[markhurst@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I have a bunch of shows in the Techtonic pipeline right now but at *some* point if/when you're available, I'd love to talk with you on the show about this risk

[ericfielding@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Nuclear war, but without plutonium so a little different.

[olivia_55@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets then what?

[trabern@mas.to]

@sundogplanets Hard to imagine we survived the 1970s-1980s mutually assured destruction era just to end up back in the same stupidity.

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets considering the mass of material transported to atmosphere by under- and above-ground nuclear tests, that seems to be off by a couple of orders of magnitude.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets nearly 10 years ago “we have had enough of experts” today, it has completely come true. The experts are almost totally sidelined.

https://www.london.edu/think/who-needs-experts

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@trabern @sundogplanets

i remember all the civil rights stuff from the 60s/70s and we're right back there again too. constant vigilance is needed to not regress.

i love science, since the assumption in science is that you always need to know where you've been, what's worked and not worked, and hopefully you don't revisit dead ends.