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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

    Our AI golem destroyed something important again, but we’re too big to fail so our mistakes don’t matter.

    We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.

    We’re a totally safe and responsible company and should be trusted with most of the world’s data management.




  • Maybe it’s methane release. Maybe it’s gasses from the sea floor we knew nothing about. We have no fucking clue what climate change is going to look like. PR firms told scientists to put the lowest projections in press releases for the last decade. The real numbers are both grim and proving to be optimistic.

    As it turns out, the math was all wrong. Who knows why? Maybe all the Earth’s various systems are interrelated, and when one system collapses it causes dozens of other systems to collapse. Maybe Earth and the delicate balance that enabled life to grow on this planet is a little more sensitive to sudden, radical change than we thought.

    Maybe all the people who lied about climate change since the 1970s lied about more shit we’re going to find out about shortly now that we can’t stop it from happening. But they’ll still make their profits and get their taxpayer-funded subsidies, so capitalism is working as intended.