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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 3h

The wife is to the wailing and gnashing of teeth stage of grading midterms.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 6h

Or Clue set in an observatory. Dr. ______ in the 4m control room with the big-ass wrench.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 6h

I trust the wolf lived happily ever after.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 16h

Mums, glorious mums

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 21h

What’s more, geological data clearly reveal that the rate of global average sea level rise over the last sixty years was faster than during any comparable period in more than 2 millennia; and, indeed, this fact has been continuously true since the late 19th century. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Walker et al 2022. Fig. 1: Time of emergence of global sea-level rise.

a Sixty-year average rates over the Common Era, where pre-industrial is 0–1700 CE. b Sixty-year average rates from 1700 to 2000 CE which increase concurrently with the probability that each 60-year interval and all subsequent 60-year intervals were greater than a random 60-year interval during the pre-industrial Common Era. The time of emergence year is given for 0.66, 0.90, and 0.95 probabilities. Model predictions are the mean with 1σ uncertainty.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 1d

These guys would shout ON YOUR LEFT then zip by at high speed. It was terrifying.

Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 1d

When I visited College Station a few months ago I couldn’t walk down the street without constantly being assaulted by leftist terror cells. The food was pretty good though.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 1d

When I visited College Station a few months ago I couldn’t walk down the street without constantly being assaulted by leftist terror cells. The food was pretty good though.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was Hot Topic for fashion-forward climate skeptics.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 2d

Statue of Athena circa 200 AD, a Roman copy of an older Greek original, in the Boboli gardens near the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 5d

To be clear, to me this is an indictment of AI. It is industrial scale environmental harm on an investment bet that AI will have a net positive economic impact. Since AI is a plagiarism-drive bullshit-generating machine, optimism looks misplaced. Looks more like an investment bubble poised to pop.

🦁 ✨ @lunarstargaze.bsky.social · 7d

i feel like this is less an indictment against AI and more an indictment of how dependent our system is on fossil fuels - this wouldnt be necessary if it was easier to build solar and nuclear.

Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

To give some sense of the insane power use of AI, witness this fracking expedition in western PA. All those trucks are hauling sand & fracking fluid. They were going back & forth constantly the time I was there, both Saturday & Sunday. The road they are turning on to was constructed just for this.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 5d

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/who-drew-the...

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 6d

Nice day for a playoff game. #Guardians #Tigers

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sure it’s just a glitch.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsu...

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

It would be less bad if we prioritized a cleaner power generation source. Even so, the pressure on the power grid is a real problem.

Maybe AI will find some limited use, but so far the vast majority of its output is crap. We should not waste so much energy generating digital garbage.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

Will it even prove to be profitable?

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry if you would like to keep warm some winter, or run the AC in the summer. Fracking is already squeezing blood from the stone; once done that resource is gone forever. All so some rich, gratuitously overconfident tech bros can indulge their 💩AI fantasies on a globally debilitating scale.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

This isn’t public utility work. It’s all to power a new AI data center built nearby because of access to this resource. Which we’re gonna use to power crap AI results while releasing more CO2. Even if you don’t appreciate climate change, you might want to use that resource for something better.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

The ground they’re traversing was once a coal mine. Tapped out long ago, brought back to production by the magic of fracking. All the natural gas they’re now squeezing out of the stone is sent to an old power plant converted from coal to gas burning. Enough to power a large portion of the state.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

To give some sense of the insane power use of AI, witness this fracking expedition in western PA. All those trucks are hauling sand & fracking fluid. They were going back & forth constantly the time I was there, both Saturday & Sunday. The road they are turning on to was constructed just for this.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

Repeating the search now, it gets it right. Was that manual intervention by some underpaid guy in a telecenter in South Asia? How much energy are we wasting on giant data centers that generate this crap?

Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

As I’m listening to the ninth inning of the Guardians-Tigers playoff game on the radio, I searched for “tigers guardians game 3” as game time is up in the air. According to Google’s AI summary, there will be no game 3. It is confused about which team scored six runs and which only one.

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 7d

A rose peeks over.

Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 8d

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Stacy McGaugh @dudedarkmatter.bsky.social · 8d

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 8d

Listen, if we all just collectively agree that today is Friday, what's to stop us?

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