Also from: The Diamond Age (1995) by Neal Stephenson:

You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas, just as Bud’s sound system lived on his eardrums. You could even get teleasthetics patched into your spinal column at various key vertebrae. But this was said to have its drawbacks: some concerns about long-term nerve damage, plus it was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the fucking middle) all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who’d somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, super-imposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.

Jason figured it out!?

This is precisely how I read it.

All of the data centers in the US combined use 4% of total electric load.

I kinda assumed Vimeo would step up its social aspects when YouTube started ratcheting up its bullshit. Still waiting.

All of the data centers in the US combined use 4% of total electric load.

Then again, the US and China are basically the only players in this “game” atm. Hugging Face is trying hard to get the EU on-boarded, and I’m sure we’ll see more contenders. But right now it’s a 2-player game.

Calling something illegal in spite of or in absence of precedent is a time-honored tactic - though not a particularly persuasive one.

For perspective, all of the data centers in the US combined use 4% of total electric load.