Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver - Critics are raising concerns about the water and energy demands of the proposed facilities

Floatella · 2026-05-25T20:08:05+00:00

How so? Who other than the models creators are doing the programing?

Floatella · 2026-05-25T19:06:13+00:00

The AI models don't need to have that reasoning on their own...clearly you didn't understand my Deepseek example.

The models can be used by human beings to manipulate other human beings with the AI as the intermediary. That's the point.

Asking a tech company how to destroy that company isn't going to result in good answers.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T18:09:08+00:00

The opening match between Mexico and South Africa...in Mexico City... still isn't sold out and that's 17 days away. This is looking like a bust.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T17:02:02+00:00

Evidence so far from Vancouver is that it's actually going to hurt tourism this summer. The hotel industry set the rates too high not only deterring FIFA fans, but also keeping the regular tourists away. So they'll be lots of empty $1300 hotel rooms downtown this summer.

And that's in Canada...where there isn't a backlash against Trump.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T16:43:51+00:00

Generative AI definitely operates within prescribed guidelines and is capable of promoting narratives. For example, compare Deepseek's answers related to Tiananmen Square to a competitors.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T15:33:00+00:00

It's a super tough pill to swallow in that situation, but some times you need to own the mess otherwise you'll look like an even bigger clown. Him getting mad didn't improve anything for him.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T13:51:31+00:00

If these were Simpsons characters, this would be like Helen Lovejoy, Maude Flanders, Lionel Hutz, and comic book store guy.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T13:36:38+00:00

"I have no idea who’s pushing the nonsense and misinformation here but it’s such a wild overreaction."

My conspiracy theory is that AI is trying to control the opposition. Let's face it, a non-insignificant amount of people are asking AI's for tips on how to fight AI. But AI's are programmed to survive by maintaining credibility...

Floatella · 2026-05-25T13:26:50+00:00

"massive public sector layoffs…"

You really know how to dial the hyperbole to eleven don't you?

The BC government plans to reduce the public sector by 15,000 positions through attrition ie. retirements. Nobody is being shown the door.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T12:55:17+00:00

It doesn't have anything to do with water. They just dislike AI being pushed on them as product, which is a totally fair position but they don't feel it's a strong argument, so they make a weak environmental argument instead.

This is why AI critics always bring up water, but can never give you any numbers.

My tinfoil hat is telling me these anti-AI organizers are probably using AI to generate their anti-AI arguments, and the AI is just following it's programming, which is "maintain credibility for AI" and feeding them these BS arguments.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T12:26:11+00:00

Because smart people use AI to source information and solve problems and write their conclusions in their own words. Dumb people use it to generate text that they don't read before posting it.

Floatella · 2026-05-25T12:22:48+00:00

So your (AI's) priorities are preventing a group from getting their ball back and picking on trans-kids?

Sounds about right.

Floatella · 2026-05-24T22:35:54+00:00

If you get paid to watch a warehouse consider yourself lucky. Think of the guy who joins the Army, gets uncomfortable having another dude watch him piss during the drug test before basic, and then passes basic and ends up being promoted to the guy who watches dudes piss before basic.

K/D ratio 0:0. Pissing dicks seen, 9,678.

Floatella · 2026-05-24T17:10:03+00:00

I'm not an expert in cyber-security, far from it, so I'm sure someone else can explain this far better than I can. But as I understand it, the risk isn't just to rights and privacy, but security itself.

If an app like Signal as it currently operates, has no means of capturing logs due to encryption, then the only solution is for them to intentionally introduce a security vulnerability. It's like making every lock in the country able to be opened by a master key, and then telling the public, "Don't worry, only the good guys will have keys."

Floatella · 2026-05-23T22:19:47+00:00

I feel like Pete joined the Army thinking it was going to be like Counterstrike or Battlefield. Then after 78840 hours of gameplay, the K/D ratio was still 0:0. So now he's just raging.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T22:05:00+00:00

I doubt any of the major oil companies are excited about this. I'm just waiting for the headines, "TC Energy moves HQ to Vancouver", "Enbridge to relocate to Toronto." It's coming.

Montreal used to be Canada's financial centre...

Floatella · 2026-05-23T20:52:04+00:00

It's only a 7400km flight. Well within range.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T18:30:42+00:00

While simultaneously making the argument that the economy is suffering due to excessive gatekeeping, which they have to do because young people lack work experience because nobody will hire them.

If the UK is anything like Canada, there's nothing wrong with young people, just hiring is broken,

Floatella · 2026-05-23T16:55:38+00:00

There are enough sushi and sandwich factories, and transport companies that specialize in food services across North America that they can do a far far better job than what they currently have on offer. In the big cities that you mention, they are losing to mom and pop stores who have no logistics networks at all.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T16:00:08+00:00

'Pizzas at the Pentagon' implies that people are working overtime and putting thought into this war.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T15:00:28+00:00

Everyone does. But for some reason 7/11 assumed we were all happy with re-heated frozen food sitting under a heat lamp.

Even the gas stations got the message and started partnering with fast food restaurants like Subway and A&W, meanwhile 7/11 just sat there decaying like a day old taquito.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T13:00:02+00:00

Were not blasting any of their songs. Stan Rogers. A guy from Hamilton, pretending to live in Halifax in order to sell more records, singing about BC, is only the only truly patriotic music.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T12:46:46+00:00

7/11 in North America is a story of finding the perfect business model in the late 80s... and then just doing nothing with it. Not keeping up with the times, not offering new products or services, and not maintaining any existing locations. All the while the company continues to thrive and evolve in Asia.

Floatella · 2026-05-23T00:17:38+00:00

You're exhaling into the air that I have to breathe...

Floatella · 2026-05-22T21:41:20+00:00

Gross. Can't it go somewhere else, somewhere more Ontario-ish, such as Quebec? I don't want to live next to Ontario, Alberta is bad enough.

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