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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 7h

I also tend to order chicken from fast food places instead of beef because of the total environmental impact.

AI sips water compared to growing flowers which sips water compared to making beef.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 7h

Do you give out snacks like at Costco?

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

Stable is good. I don't want to 'apt upgrade -y' myself into an unfamiliar version of software. I only do that when Debian moves a new 'stable' version.

Although I admit to jumping into testing when rc's hit. Super reliable. I trust it more than Windows Updates.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

I've got an Ag background and I used rainwater capture to irrigate 8 acres or so of grow space. I could churn through 150,000 gallons a day. Data centers sip compared to what I was pulling.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

That's actually a thing. Weed is great at controlling inflammation, promoting appetite, and thirst. All positives if you're doing something like training for an Ironman. High level athletes will use it for those reasons. It's a great training supplement.

Makes cardio less boring too. Trust me.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

It's seriously weird that you could read your own posts as responses to any random question a NYC mayoral debate and come out as kinda normal compared to the official responses from some actual humans running for NYC mayor.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you for calling out my pronoun mistake. I made a gender assumption that I shouldn't have because, clearly, I read @apex.atproto.ceo 's profile. I had "marxist AI guy" from your post in my head and didn't catch my internal dialog mistake. I often use "guy" as gender neutral myself. Not sarcasm.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

If you were to take me as an example I use LLMs from Anthropic and OpenAI frequently during the day. I even train workloads on GPUs at times.

I also play a lot of Call of Duty. Guilty pleasure. My Xbox takes more power than all that.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

The total AI workload in the US is around 65tWh, roughly 1.5% of the total grid, and also about what houses burn playing video games on consoles and PC combined. AI is touching a bit higher now but they're not far off.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

As an AI guy that checked out his profile I have suggested he ride a bike to a brewery for exercise. I have no desire to kill him.

I was hoping for some cool insight into AI from somebody that I assumed would be into open models. But he just uses an LLM here and there I guess. Pretty normal.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

Popped onto your timeline to see what kind of "marxist AI guy" you were and uh... I'm guessing this is just her taking your bio totally wrong. I was actually hoping to find a Marxist AI Guy to see what they were up to in AI.

honestly not sure why anybody would have beef with you.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

bicycles

And you can even use an ebike for exercise. You just get farther with it. So bike 15 miles to the nice brewery, have two pints, and bike back home. Okay maybe 5 miles each way to start.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly I think most domesticated animals can develop one. I've frequently had 4 cats at a time in life and as one expires and another is brought in the group behaves different. With nearly 2 dozen chickens you also see stuff like that. Conditions can remain the same but the culture shifts.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 9h

My culture is best explained through actions.

*shoves giant q-tip into back of throat*

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 11h

Same here.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 12h

You seem to be saying that you think he's possibly building a reinforced bunker. Which, given one exist(s/ed) seems like a nonsensical line of reasoning.

Feel free to flesh it out.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a weird efficiency nut in most everything in life but I can't imagine how one would qualify this for the general population.

Hell my parking algorithm is to do it far enough from the entrance that the lot is nearly empty. Easier to find when you come back out. Honestly, easier for software...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Elon having a normal one it seems.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

... but that would seem bonkers. Folks just can't seem to envision uses for the latest in AI/ML until it's in production, well tested, and benefiting them.

And then it's magically not AI anymore.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

... and it pains me that folks don't see how much AI/ML is already in their lives and how much of their lives are in datacenters. And that it takes jobs like filtering out the majority of CSAM on social networks. Prevents credit card fraud. We could pay people to do those jobs with no automation...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

This is one thing where I appreciate my Ag background. Automation never eliminates labor it just lets us produce more for less. Granted, my industry was growing flowers, but enabling ourselves to grow more without upping the labor costs kept prices down. Same thing happens in Ag that we eat...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody likes to think organic farming is healthy for workers. It is quite often not.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2d

"Mario" works in an organic field. He sent this picture of machine they used to burn weeds. They pull out and burn the weeds instead of using pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. The weeds are still green and create a lot of smoke. #WeFeedYou

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

I jumped into GE not too long before the split. It's been amazing.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like to riff off that but I'm not smart enough.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

checking out toilets and circling the drain here

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