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One day after AI is abandoned they’re absolutely going to tout cutting their emissions by half/a third without acknowledging they were pumping out more than ever chasing a pump and dump plagiarism scheme
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
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➕🔖 bookmarking, good read Engineering as a Class Thing sucks. You don't really need to be smart, you just need to be careful. Fix things. Work on projects that have no use for the internet. Start thinking in systems. Test your assumptions. You're allowed to just do shit. FAFO for fun. It's neat.
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Folks, truly, watch this ->
Saleem was a lifelong collaborator, mentor, colleague, friend. I’ve known him since 1997. The keynote lecture I delivered at the Royal Geographical Society this past week has video clips of interviews with him (and others). Video of my lecture & the panel discussion afterwards is here:
Voices from the Global South - RGSwww.rgs.org Explore diverse perspectives on the climate crisis, emphasising the significance of incorporating insights from academic, policy, and indigenous advocacy groups.
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Chapter X in our commodified cybernetic dystopia. We shape our tools and our tools shape us - McLuhan We create tech, and as tech works its way through society, it also works us over completely via our meaning-making practices, and ultimately transforms our reality.
“Generative AI could ‘distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,’ and in many cases is already doing that,’” according to a new research paper from Google’s own DeepMind lab.
Google Says AI Could Break Realitywww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”
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I now read a lot of books on my e-reader, which is great because I can always take my book with me, and it allows me to get my books using more or less legal means. However its biggest downside is that no one can get impressed by the amount of read books on my bookshelf.
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*reminds me of* this film en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boo... it was never going to be called the kindle of eli... cmos/clock battery would av been dead *discontinued* os updates not found ssl certs out of date ect
The Book of Eli - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.
One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...
Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.
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"Secret deal to let benefit fraud squad snoop on pupil data" schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-sec... Pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down” Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me
Benefit fraud squad snoops on pupil data under secret dealschoolsweek.co.uk Leaders warn the move may lead to parents 'withdrawing their children from schools'
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As I’ve been saying for years, we’re literally prancing our way towards some really scary shite. Not just incompetent doctors giving misdiagnosis, incompetent lawyers ruining your case/future/finances, incompetent administrator ruining your job/career, but heard of SkyNet? Unfettered AI+Capitalism🤖
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"This change reflects a material shift in the relationship between collective identity and power, and illustrates how states no longer have exclusive domain over either. Today, both power and culture are increasingly corporate."
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Yes, the criminalization of homelessness is a symptom of rising fascism, and yes, it is a bipartisan effort. Please process that.
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“… the algorithm could then be applied in reverse: to try and predict Alzheimer's risk from transcripts of speech samples it had never processed before… important factors, including age and self-reported sex, were added to produce a final predictive score.” www.sciencealert.com/a-signal-of-... 🧪
A Signal of Future Alzheimer's May Be Hidden in The Way You Speakwww.sciencealert.com Early warnings could make all the difference.
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I'm happy that the paper about my class on Historically Excluded and Underrepresented Scientists is now published. When I get back from Alaska, I will put the syllabus and other materials on my website and link to that here on Bluesky. In the meantime, enjoy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teaching the way I wish I was taught: Design and implementation of a class on historically excluded and underrepresented scientistsonlinelibrary.wiley.com The Journal of Cellular Physiology examines eukaryotic cell biology and physiology, focusing on articles that investigate cell structure and function.