cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26297841
I’ll note that the article as originally published contains a typo; Ruth Porat is the CIO at Google, not the CEO.
Wow, Republican delusion lines up perfectly with big-business interests? weird.
Also weird that the “extreme” climate agenda has been calling for strengthening the power grid for decades.
Yeah like that was the point was to centralize everything on electric power so you can work on swapping out things like coal for more sustainable forms of electricity.
How that is a negative for data centers are some mental gymnastics I’m not willing to make.
Potato tomato in that context.
There’s a techbro (sis in this instance) idea that the faster we use AI, the faster AI will find a solution for climate change. The stupidity in that is that we already know the solution. We just have to execute on it.
This is one of many examples of a class of problem where the technology is the easy part. There’s room to improve the tech certainly, but the technology sufficient to solve the problem is already well understood.
The hard part is how to get people to actually do the necessary changes. To consume less, get fewer gas cars on the road, increase the amount of nuclear, hydro, solar, geothermal, and wind in the grid, and minimize coal and gas use. To reduce land use by cows, and increase land use by trees and native plants.
But maybe AI is the secret here. We have tools that are in the hype moment whose training data already contains several reasonable solutions to climate change. Maybe if AI “finds” the solution to climate change, people will finally listen
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Google’s fucked.
“Don’t be evil.” Lol.
I’ve listened to Ruth Porat speak before and nothing about this article matches that. It feels fake or taken wildly out of context. As a general rule she doesn’t say much that isn’t already publicly released, and this doesn’t match any of the statements google’s released recently.
For the uninitiated, she’s the kind of person who would say “you bring up a great point” before then explaining why you’re wrong. So it feels disingenuous to not include the full sentence in the quote, and then to also not link to the source video is sus.
Edit: Thanks commenter🫡 They did link the source, at least, but yeah my other points.
Board membership
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Stanford University Management Company,[45] the university’s endowment, the Board of Trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,[46] the Board of Directors of The Council on Foreign Relations,[9] the Board of Directors of Bloomberg Philanthropies,[47] and the Board of Directors of The Blackstone Group.[48] She previously served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University,[49] the Borrowing Advisory Committee of the United States Treasury,[50] and the Board of Trustees of the Economic Club of New York.[51] She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution,[52] and the Economic Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute.[53]
Political views
Porat supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008 and 2016, hosting fundraisers for her at the Dakota in New York City.[54]
In 2011, Porat expressed her support for increased taxes on the wealthy and declared on the topic of significant spending decreases that “we cannot cut our way to greatness”.[55]
In March 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie named Porat as co-chair of “The Partnership for San Francisco” alongside Laurene Powell Jobs.[56]
Gotta love liberals being liberals. You can always count on em being complete wastes of space in the face of fascism.
Dems are PR for the oligarchs, Republicans are their secretaries
This is the type of shit that made me walk away from Android and Google, not that Apple is any better per se, but I just can’t ethically support Google anymore.
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paywall bypass: https://archive.is/mdi9x
It’s wild that “we’re cooked” started as straight meme terminology but now literally describes the future of the human race
The ghouls of capitalism will prop up, defend, and fund fascists until the end. They need to be firmly taxed and regulated if we are to have any chance. Even if, chances are increasingly fleeting.
Yup, googles evil, time to get rid of the entire company.
Please choose nuclear then,
you fucktard.
