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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 61 points 10 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

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 10 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).

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Less recycling more reusing bottles for molotovs please

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

reduce, reuse, recycle, retaliate

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

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