@kashana.blacksky.app Feb 17, 2026:
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
@truthseeker19.bsky.social:
The penalty for rape SHOULD be:
Take away the rape “weapon” by whacking it OFF.
I agree. Watch the rapes drop to near zero if appropriate punishment for rape was consistently handed out, but most judges let rapists off even those that admit to their fucking rapes, and our world is run by pedophiles, torturers and genocidaires – there will never be proper punishment for rape which is why rapists keep raping.
@cdf.bsky.social:
And no drinking water
@maryiscontrary.bsky.social:
Water is over rated.
@jayrussell.bsky.social:
Hey, don’t forget destroying artists, writers and human creativity. It’s a win-win, baby!
Above by Kashana is the best AI summary I’ve read yet. It’s just missing the lies, endless errors, threats, CSAM, letting paying clients undress women without consent, land loss, and water contamination and over use. The greedy soulless tech bros will be poisoning plenty of white Canadians soon too, thanks to traitor Mark Carney and his idiot fraudster Evan Solomon, Minister of AI. Does their love for AI make them pedos too?
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Basically, AI techbros watched lots of science fiction and are simultaneously making fake, superficial versions of the cool future stuff and ushering in real versions of the dystopian future stuff.
@ethannichtern.com:
Look, who needs drinking water though? I want a parched throat and a bad haiku about parenthood written by Sam Altman’s empathy deficit disorder.
@mafuchi.bsky.social:
You forgot the wondeful increased cost of ram and horrifying AI generated commercialsNever mind the ultra stupid AI clips kid rapist convicted felon orange faced Trump creates
@maaronjo.bsky.social:
but it made a bullshit slide for my bullshit presentation giving me more time for some other bullshit
@doctorzen.net:
Interesting that this article about how people are missing out still doesn’t give a single compelling use of the technology.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
It’s supposed to just be self-evident!
@bigboneded.bsky.social:
Good news! There is no more Clean Air Act! So…no laws broken.
@thehardmenpath.bsky.social:
There’s a way.
@airbagmoments.bsky.social:
And don’t forget that it doesn’t work!Of course AI doesn’t work. It’s created by brainless kid rapists and promoted and enabled by stupid people like Evan Solomon.
@kashana.blacksky.app:
Looking forward to the part where the AI companies run us out of computers and I get to write books with a quill
@wolmania.com:
[Nvidia discovers that feathers are great for regulating chip temperature, buys out the entire quill market and hunts geese into extinction]
@kashana.blacksky.app:
attempts to write books with my fingernails in the quill-less future, succeeds wildly until palantir invents a fingernail based tracking device
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out, Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs by Mark Manyel, Feb 16, 2026, heise.de
With Western Digital and Seagate, two of the three remaining hard drive manufacturers worldwide have confirmed that they have already sold their production quotas for 2026 completely or almost completely. The situation is likely to be similar for Toshiba.
The statements come from the company CEOs in the analyst conferences on the latest business reports. They thus confirm speculation from September 2025. And there are already initial agreements for the year 2026. They largely come from hyperscalers who want hard drives for their AI data centers, for example to store training data on them. These include Amazon (AWS), Google, Microsoft (Azure), Meta, and OpenAI.
What the CEOs say
Western Digital CEO Tiang Yew Tan said: “We’re pretty much sold out for calendar year 2026. We have firm purchase orders with our top seven customers through calendar year 2026. We also have in place robust commercial agreements with three of our top five customers, two through calendar year 2027 and one through calendar year 2028.”
Seagate CEO William Mosley explained: “Our nearline capacity is fully allocated through calendar year 2026, and we expect to begin accepting orders for the first half of calendar year 2027 in the coming months. Further out, demand visibility is strengthening based on the long-term agreements in place with major cloud customers through calendar 2027. Additionally, multiple cloud customers are discussing their demand growth projections for calendar 2028, underscoring that supply assurance remains their highest priority.”
By nearline, Seagate understands its HDD offering with a server focus. Some of these models also spill over into retail. According to the business report, nearline recently accounted for 87 percent of Seagate’s hard drive sales. The division is increasingly displacing the remaining offerings. A year earlier, nearline was still at 83 percent.
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No Production Expansion for Now
According to Mosley, Seagate is not expanding its production capacities for now. Growth is to come only from higher-capacity hard drives, not from additional unit numbers.
CFO Gianluca Romano added: “If in a quarter, we can produce a little bit more, of course, we will sell those exabytes in the open market at a good profitability. But I would say the vast, vast majority of the volume is already allocated.”
Toshiba has not been listed on the stock exchange since 2023. As a result, only rudimentary financial information is publicly available. The company no longer provides outlooks like its competitors.
All three HDD manufacturers have recently increased sales and profits. Western Digital’s revenue, for example, increased by 25 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, to three billion US dollars. Operating profit rose by 62 percent to 908 million US dollars. A higher gross margin (46.1 instead of 38.4 percent) underscores that the manufacturer is charging higher prices.
HDD and SSD Prices are Rising
In German retail, HDD prices have risen by about 20 to 50 percent compared to mid-2025. A shortage of HDDs for data centers also affects SSDs: hyperscalers are buying high-capacity SSDs as an alternative. Manufacturers are therefore shifting their production, which leads to price increases in retail.
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Storage crisis: Flash is scarcer than everc’t Magazin
Many models with up to two terabytes of storage have become about 50 percent pricier since summer 2025, for example in the case of Samsung. Smaller SSD manufacturers without their own memory production are hit harder – price increases of a factor of 2 to 3 are observed here, for example with Kingston, Lexar, and Patriot.
Western Digital SSDs are currently disappearing from the market because the models will continue to run under new SanDisk names in the future. Both companies separated from each other in 2025.
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social:
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated–including in non-consensual AI porn–it was no big deal. But it took “only a 15-sec clip” of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.Good old racist misogynistic religion run patriarchy fucking screams when AI rips off two rich white men. The evil patriarchy must go.
@tammi.bsky.social:
It only matters when rich white dudes might make a very-slightly-smaller massive pile of money.
@nepenthe.bsky.social:
Didn’t you know? Women and children are public property but men are people.
@abbykoch.bsky.social:
white men
@gleafer.bsky.social”
🎶That’s the Patriatchy!🎶
@puppa.bsky.social:
they would have cared about the child porn if it was hurting their profits.
@jillski20.bsky.social:
Right? Cuz now it’s about lost money. And men.
@lem0nb0iii.bsky.social:
Especially two famous and famously abusive white men, at that. The irony.
@cathsheard.bsky.social:
Much of society, especially in the US, straight up hates women and places no value on children.
@andyfach.bsky.social:
Men’s feelings hurt – bad
Laws broken and women & children exploited – sorry, couldn’t hear you over the sound of us being outraged over click bait…
This. World. Is. Fucked.
@repetephotos.bsky.social:
The law is so far behind we do not even have laws for revenge porn. This is the problem when the average age of lawmakers is older than the computer. Money is the only motivation and unfortunately women and children’s wellbeing has never been valuable.
@deon-botl.bsky.social:
The abuse of women and children doesn’t matter. Their profits…. that’s all that matters to the Epstein class
@mementomorty.bsky.social:
It is so fucking infuriating to be a woman in this worldyup, and it’s just as infuriating to be a raped child too
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social:
For the record, most of us in Hollywood have been outraged since this technology launched for exactly the reasons you name.
@gwenaber.bsky.social:
Every bit of this is horrific, the misogyny, the racism, the economic top tier-ness outrage. I’m worn-down exhausted from the assault on all those fronts, but not done yelling about it all.
@citrusmode.bsky.social:
it’s so easy to prove how little these people really care about children
@whtabtpineapple.bsky.social:
It’s always okay with women and kids. So sick and disturbing. This country. Ugh.
@fae-kissed-violet.bsky.social:
Unconsentual prn and child prn are clearly fine to them, look at the current administration in USA, but making wealthy white men profit even a tiny bit less and using their faces without consent? Now THAT is a travesty!
@wh0sthatd0g.bsky.social:
Lord knows “Grok says Marco Rubio is a pedophile” is the only way we’re ever going to get senators to write AI legislation making it stfu
@titubasrevenge.bsky.social:
Fuck the patriarchy.
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social
Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t…
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim “AI” will make global emissions drop like a stone…. Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b…