Last update: 2024-09-18

Paris Marx

parismarx.bsky.social

i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com

Followers

12,415

7 days:366

14 days:799

30 days:1,447

Followers by date

2024-09-18:12,41573

2024-09-17:12,34274

2024-09-16:12,268104

2024-09-15:12,16418

2024-09-14:12,14629

2024-09-13:12,11741

2024-09-12:12,07627

Follows

262

7 days:4

14 days:5

30 days:6

Follows by date

2024-09-18:2621

2024-09-17:2610

2024-09-16:2610

2024-09-15:2610

2024-09-14:2610

2024-09-13:2613

2024-09-12:2580

Skeets

1,239

7 days:64

14 days:79

30 days:122

Skeets by date

2024-09-18:1,23924

2024-09-17:1,2155

2024-09-16:1,2108

2024-09-15:1,2028

2024-09-14:1,1948

2024-09-13:1,1867

2024-09-12:1,1794

Likes

7 days:6,233

14 days:8,520

30 days:13,876

Likes by date

2024-09-18:446

2024-09-17:834

2024-09-16:2,653

2024-09-15:397

2024-09-14:517

2024-09-13:930

2024-09-12:456

Reskeets

7 days:2,039

14 days:2,454

30 days:3,851

Reskeets by date

2024-09-18:120

2024-09-17:177

2024-09-16:1,133

2024-09-15:38

2024-09-14:192

2024-09-13:177

2024-09-12:202

Top 5 Most Liked Skeets (14 days)

1.

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.

1367

2.

it’s funny that cyberlibertarians spent so much time worrying about government surveillance then private tech companies went ahead and build the most invasive and extensive surveillance apparatus we’ve ever known out of the thing the they promised would liberate us all

788

3.

Brazil seized $3.3 million from the local bank accounts of X and Starlink to pay fines imposed by the Supreme Court.

684

4.

does the iphone not change much every year because apple is an oligopolist or is it simply because there’s not much innovation left in the smartphone? we don’t expect laptops to do wildly new things every few years other than get a little faster and have a slightly better battery

576

5.

After Pavel Durov’s arrest and Brazil’s ban of Twitter/X, many people immediately jumped to talking about free speech. But those actions were about sovereignty, not speech. Internet politics is shifting, and if we want to respond to it properly we need to stop framing everything as a speech issue.

497

Top 5 Most Reposted Skeets (14 days)

1.

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.

772

2.

it’s funny that cyberlibertarians spent so much time worrying about government surveillance then private tech companies went ahead and build the most invasive and extensive surveillance apparatus we’ve ever known out of the thing the they promised would liberate us all

284

3.

In Memphis, Elon Musk’s xAI is skirting environmental rules and has at least 18 generators burning methane gas next to Black communities without a permit. It will eventually use 150MW of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes — mainly to power the Grok chatbot.

181

4.

Meta has admitted it used all its users’ public posts on its platforms going back to 2007 to train its AI models during an Australian senate inquiry. The only exception was for users in the European Union who opted out.

178

5.

Brazil seized $3.3 million from the local bank accounts of X and Starlink to pay fines imposed by the Supreme Court.

138