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Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Science, UNCC
Degrees in Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies
Thinking on Algorithms, 'A.I.,' Human Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Magic/Occult, Pop Culture
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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 2 hr
Show this to everyone who’s like “But THEY don’t belong in my Eurofantasy construct!!1!” African red-slip pottery was excavated from medieval digs in Europe decades ago. Now we have more evidence of even broader trade networks. Our species likes hanging out with new people and trying new things.
Avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9 hr
this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...
A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 11 hr
I mean even "closed" cooling systems have loss points and leakage, but again , the more data centers you Have, the more power they Use (≈the more water they require to turn to steam to run turbines), the more heat they Produce, the more cooling they Need= the more Water they need. It's use and scale
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Because people seem to not understand how "AI" uses so much water, here's a quick+dirty breakdown: The more data centers you have & the more traditional power you use, the more water you 1a) use To cool & 1b) lose, because they arent perfectly sealed systems, & 2) will need to boil to run turbines.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
And so i say again bsky.app/profile/wolv...
Avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8 mo
New game: First Large Language Model/Deep Learning/Generative "AI"/"Machine Learning" firm w/ only renewable energy sources, an open source & radical consent model for the collection & use of training data, & an output correction process that's not just "don't talk about prejudicial bias, ever" wins
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 11 hr
I mean even "closed" cooling systems have loss points and leakage, but again , the more data centers you Have, the more power they Use (≈the more water they require to turn to steam to run turbines), the more heat they Produce, the more cooling they Need= the more Water they need. It's use and scale
Avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
Because people seem to not understand how "AI" uses so much water, here's a quick+dirty breakdown: The more data centers you have & the more traditional power you use, the more water you 1a) use To cool & 1b) lose, because they arent perfectly sealed systems, & 2) will need to boil to run turbines.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
Because people seem to not understand how "AI" uses so much water, here's a quick+dirty breakdown: The more data centers you have & the more traditional power you use, the more water you 1a) use To cool & 1b) lose, because they arent perfectly sealed systems, & 2) will need to boil to run turbines.
Avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · a day
Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
And so i say again bsky.app/profile/wolv...
Avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8 mo
New game: First Large Language Model/Deep Learning/Generative "AI"/"Machine Learning" firm w/ only renewable energy sources, an open source & radical consent model for the collection & use of training data, & an output correction process that's not just "don't talk about prejudicial bias, ever" wins
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8 mo
New game: First Large Language Model/Deep Learning/Generative "AI"/"Machine Learning" firm w/ only renewable energy sources, an open source & radical consent model for the collection & use of training data, & an output correction process that's not just "don't talk about prejudicial bias, ever" wins
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · a day
Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.
Avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social · 2 days
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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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
Because people seem to not understand how "AI" uses so much water, here's a quick+dirty breakdown: The more data centers you have & the more traditional power you use, the more water you 1a) use To cool & 1b) lose, because they arent perfectly sealed systems, & 2) will need to boil to run turbines.
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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
When people can't admit they've been bamboozled by the hype-merchant, their scant recourse is often found in the flimflam-y arms of vaporware
Avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social · 18 hr
Here's my summary of the current Ai bubble from next week's newsletter
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
The more data centers you have and the more traditional power you use, the more cooling you need (with attendant loses; they arent perfectly sealed systems), and the more water you will need to turn to steam to run turbines
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
Oh it was several people
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 13 hr
Talk more about Trump being unfit because of his policies and plans and find common cause there.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 13 hr
From Algorithmic Management to Data- driven Labour Organising. A trade union approach to workplace datafication aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...
From Algorithmic Management to Data- driven Labour Organising. A trade union approach to workplace dataficationaisel.aisnet.org The increasing datafication of the workplace is often cast as a means of imposing organisational and managerial control on workers. This reflection note moves beyond this view and coins the term data-...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 12 hr
When people can't admit they've been bamboozled by the hype-merchant, their scant recourse is often found in the flimflam-y arms of vaporware
Avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social · 18 hr
Here's my summary of the current Ai bubble from next week's newsletter
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 20 hr
why did we stop sending men to the moon. So many men could fit up there
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16 hr
As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.
Avatar Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · a day
A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.
Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.
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Lindsay King-Miller @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · a day
I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect
Avatar Kim Hu @kimhu.bsky.social · a day
potato.
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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · a day
“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.
Avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social · a day
“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”
Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · a day
Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social · a day
“The car was apparently confused by some construction signs and reportedly ran a red light before pulling over in a parking lot to let the officer talk to one of Waymo’s support representatives.”
Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lanewww.theverge.com The car did not get a ticket.
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Zane Alexander @bezier.bsky.social · 21 hr
Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board out with a skewering of this week’s media coverage. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
The lingering focus on Biden’s shaky debate obscures Trump’s major verbal miscues | Editorialwww.inquirer.com The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 20 hr
That seems like a bad system made of bad and false choices that we should probably all work together to change
Avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social · 20 hr
You can either keep chasing subscribers or starve and so almost everyone winds up getting funneled down the path to stoogedom
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · a day
If this resonates with you as an expert in your field, please feel free to hit me up on how to pitch an op-ed to MSNBC dot com
Avatar Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 2 days
Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9 days
Here's to better, more compassionate, and more just humans in a better, more compassionate, and more just world.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 19 hr
A little over a week now.
Avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6 days
So I turn 42 in a couple of weeks and in case anyone is wondering what to get me, I could really go for a better, more compassionate, and more just human society situated within a better, more compassionate, and more just world. That'd be a real treat.
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Sascha Stronach, Transgender Menace 🦋(1) @understatesmen.bsky.social · 21 hr
... wait so tiktok doesn't actually block ANY of the words people euphemise like death ("unlife") it's just intentional behaviour to avoid other users' filters? hey hey that fucking sucks let people not see things they don't want to see
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Skoden ✊🏽 @cyanidepatch.bsky.social · a day
new infinite money hak just dropped #invest #financaladvice #trustmebro
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20 hr
Crows are such amazing ecological generalists. For several years I've watched various birds in the Seattle area that have learned to pluck fish from the water, sometimes swooping and scooping, other times, hovering almost like a tern. Below, some very jerky video (hand-held 800mm lens). 🪶
crow fishingyoutu.be This American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) has learned to pluck fish from the water of Seattle's Lake Washington.This is very shaky video, because it's hand-...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 20 hr
That seems like a bad system made of bad and false choices that we should probably all work together to change
Avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social · 20 hr
You can either keep chasing subscribers or starve and so almost everyone winds up getting funneled down the path to stoogedom