When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is.
The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away.
An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.
People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.
Grace Blakeley
Waldo Jaquith
I honestly hate the concept of debating. I'm not interested in adversarial communication with someone who has already decided they lose something if they learn something.
a real one.
“A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.” [beyondplastics.org]
Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.
