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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 16h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 10h

the point is education as a class-marker, you respect it as a shibboleth of someone you're supposed to recognise is in the same club as you or else tug your forelock to but that is precisely the reason it should not be available to the lower orders

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 7h

David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 8h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

the extremely boring and simple and “we told you so” explanation is the post financial crisis austerity binge in which european institutions declared fiscal ‘discipline’ more important than democracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 2d

If politics are going crazy in several European countries one after the other, I think it is time to go past blaming the failures of individual political actors (and there are quite a few, both in the UK and France) to looking at the systemic pressures our political systems are failing to deal with.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 5d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 5d

professional secret: vikings didn't exist. medievalists invented them in 1968 in the wake of the first wave of Tolkienmania to trick people into spending their careers reading saints' lives and homily books

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 5d

Of course, I should have realized 😅🙈

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 5d

But can one reliably analyze ht antennas with a VNA? I was under the impression that the user and the radio basically make the counterpoise of the whole antenna system

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Netzwerk für Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft @ngawiss.bsky.social · 5d

Das lässt im Grunde nur den Schluss zu, dass Prekarisierung - mehr noch als der Ökonomisierung - der Konsolidierung hierarchischer Machtstrukturen dient.
#IchbinHanna

Michael Liebendörfer @mliebendoerfer.bsky.social · 5d

Eine SWS einer unbefristeten Postdoc in E-14, Stufe 6 (Endstufe), mit 8 SWS Lehrverpflichtung kostet ca. 25% weniger als die eines Doktoranden, E-13, Stufe 1, mit 4 SWS Lehrverpflichtung bei vermutlich höherer Qualität. Lässt mich gerade nicht los.
#ichbinHanna

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 5d

Rana pesto Is not even that good, Tigullio is the real deal among the industrial ones.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

The way ICE agents wreak havoc on buildings, take perverse pleasure in doing so, and then lie about everything afterwards is akin to the videos of IDF soldiers wrecking residential complexes in Gaza, and there’s a lot to unpack all around there.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 6d

Incredible that they put this in writing

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 6d

today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture

A screenshot from a 1941 Dorothy Thompson piece for Harper's reads: 'Mrs. E would go Nazi as sure as you are born. That statement surprises you? Mrs. E seems so sweet, so clinging, so cowed. She is. She is a masochist. She is married to a man who never ceases to humiliate her, to lord it over her, to treat her with less consideration than he does his dogs. He is a prominent scientist, and Mrs. E, who married him very young, has persuaded herself that he is a genius, and that there is something of superior womanliness in her utter lack of pride, in her doglike devotion. She speaks disapprovingly of other “masculine” or insufficiently devoted wives. Her husband, however, is bored to death with her. He neglects her completely and she is looking for someone else before whom to pour her ecstatic self-abasement. She will titillate with pleased excitement to the first popular hero who proclaims the basic subordination of women."

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 6d

tag yourself*

*by yourself, I mean ezra klein, matt yglesias, bari weiss, et al

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 23d

🌈 Hi everyone!

😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months.

👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social!
👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social!
👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.bsky.social · 6d

Ein neuer Tag im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem, ein neuer Kollege, der nicht mehr da ist, weil in diesem dümmsten aller Länder gute Wissenschaftler*innen regelhaft alle paar Jahre gefeuert werden. Es ist alles so unfassbar irrational und ineffizient.

#IchbinHanna

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Daniele Florean @daniflorean.bsky.social · 6d

I mean from the little I know about 16th century religious movements, this is just a regular Wednesday

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 6d

i urgently want to go back in time with the capacity to explain "in 2025, some random peasant will popesplain the bible to the pope's face in a hastily-scrawled missive" to a, like, 16th century European monarch

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