When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".

Tesla eats shit in court again - Swedish unions can maintain their sympathetic blockade on Tesla superchargers getting connected to the grid

https://da.se/2026/02/domstol-forsvarar-strejkratten-ingen-strom-till-teslas-laddstolpar/

Good night, #Tootleverse

Don't break the internet.
OR ELSE!

Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it. But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy. Both present major threats to public life.

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They promised not to raise the council tax. Now they did. This is what Reform UK in government looks like. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/reform-uk-kent-council-extreme-risk-pass-first-budget

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Two more wins today!

A federal judge in Washington blocked an effort by the Defense Secretary to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over a video reminding service members that they must refuse unlawful orders. The judge made clear that political retaliation has no place in how the military is governed.
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They can hide, censor, and deny #climate change science but that doesn't change the #science.
They can try to repeal the #Endangerment Finding but that doesn't change the danger.
Reality will always win and history will never forget what they're doing and who is doing it.

I start believing in AI when it flies the billionairs jets and crews their yachts.

#psa

@evan 👻

@jalefkowit Aw, now you've made me all nostalgic for the Bubble Car.
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@mathowie Well within your rights

Good for the Democratic Senators - except of course Fetterman. Senate Democrats block homeland security funding bill as department shutdown looms – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/12/trump-tariffs-canada-republicans-democrats-ice-bovino-pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-698e288e8f08daf11acecac7#block-698e288e8f08daf11acecac7

So I will detail in this thread, and yes, this will be a Classic Christine Thread (TM), what I mean. The things we would *like* to do, at a high level:

- Get "moderated chatroom with no center" tech in the hands of users
- Which also includes direct file sharing
- Advance Spritely's core tech in the process. There's nothing like a real world use case with real users to push forward your system
- Advancing that tooling also means opening up some things that you can't do anywhere else

What does that mean? Read on! Let's go!

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritely ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.

We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.

"An AI Agent Published A Hit Piece On Me" is a *WILD* read, as is the issues, and the blackmail blogposts (and later "apology") by the AI agent https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

If Khan pedestrianises Soho I'll send him a bouquet of flowers every year www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

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Today is David Graeber's birthday. He'd have been 65 years old today.

His ideas are still here and his message is more important than ever before which must remind us that a better world is possible.

Good response to Jim Ratcliffe's appalling comment on immigration. @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: "Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country, one might question whether he is the patriot that we need to comment on this issue."