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Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, so (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I joined the Microsoft climate solutions team, I think doing so has crushed all my hopes. That team is doing small things like "let's all go plastic free for July!" Top 20 company in the world and the best we can do is go plastic free for a month? Meanwhile MSFT is not on course to meet their own climate goal by 2030

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

we're aiming to do 1% more recycling this year 💪💪💪

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

recycling plastic is not as shiny as advertised, just burn this shit for energy instead

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like it. Burn trash to power data centers running LLMs. Garage in, garbage out

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

it's better used for municipal heating, you know, something actually useful

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Instructions unclear, burned datacenter instead.

(To any 3 letter agencies reading this, I'm making a joke, I'm not pro burning down datacenters, that is Yuds thing).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Less recycling more reusing bottles for molotovs please

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

reduce, reuse, recycle, retaliate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'm on a group text with your exec colleagues. Disheartening would be an understatement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

you're our guy on the inside then? we can hit it from the outside and maybe we can accomplish together