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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 16h

This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...

Ken Jacobs inspecting one of his projectors, ca. 1995

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 1d

Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org

A screenshot of the speakers bureau from Learning With AI with a grid of names and a tag cloud for filtering by expertise

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 7d

We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 9d

Yeah, it's like let 100 flowers bloom except it's kudzu

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 9d

Will AI in the classroom mean students asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework, or strapping on a headband that streams their brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, teachers are already policing attention with the latter www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

#edtech #k12 #instructionaldesign #aiethics #aiineducation #privacy #surveillance | Jon Ippolito

Will AI-powered education mean asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework—or strapping on a headband that streams your brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, the latter is already here. At ...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 13d

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

#aiethics #aivideo #aiineducation #ailiteracy #llm #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito

I've updated the What Uses More calculator with new research this week that makes the environmental footprint of AI video potentially far higher than I thought. On Tuesday Julien Delavande, Régis Pie...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 14d

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

#highered #aiethics #aiineducation #ailiteracy #generativeai #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito

The impact of AI on education may ultimately have less to do with AI itself and more with the habits it forces us to shed, both in classrooms and in our digital lives. This week I talked with Lew Lud...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 22d

Will a new startup topple Nvidia's dominance with more efficient AI chips? I suggest it may not make much difference to AI's environmental footprint in this piece from Inc. magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/w...

Why This AI Startup Thinks It Can Compete With Nvidia

Positron is betting on cost-efficient AI hardware in a bid to take on Nvidia, the industry behemoth.

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 26d

Playing with @jonippolito.net's app What Uses More to compare generating an AI image with streaming Netflix for an hour or storing 5 GB in the cloud.

How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
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What Uses More? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks

Compare the energy and water footprint of AI and digital activities.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 26d

Yes thanks Ryan! A colleague of mine studies Permaculture so we sometimes discuss its relationship to Permacomputing.

A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 26d

Thanks Reed. Unlike Mistral's recent findings, OpenAI's blog post didn't clarify the number of tokens assumed per query. That's like comparing the amount of gas required to pick up groceries without specifying whether the store is next-door or across town. Easily an order of magnitude difference.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 26d

I guess it's a step toward a more democratic solution compared to high-profile lawsuits by high-profile creators against high-profile AI companies. But without a plan to let everyone share in the proceeds, it feels like copium at this point.

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 4

A worthy source to subscribe to 👍

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 3

It was behind a paywall when I checked.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 3

Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...

The front page of artistsnclients.com with the word "hacked" stamped on it.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 29

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 29

Trying not to blame @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social for manifesting the textpocalypse...

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 29

"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

#opensource #aicoding #aiethics #textpocalypse | Jon Ippolito

In another sign of a looming AI textpocalypse, open source maintainers are seeing a 20-40% rise in bogus bug reports that are just fishing for bounties. What’s remarkable is that submitters using AI ...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 27

Thanks for the suggestion, I welcome any related resources to learn more. (As a sidenote, I worked on some museum videowalls back in the day. You're in good hands with @reginaharsanyi.bsky.social )

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 27

Oh that’s great! 90% of what I write is vanilla JS. I do teach P5js in my beginning coding class, and @novomancy.bsky.social has led my students in similar-looking experiments (based on randomness, not ML). Examples:

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 27

Interesting. Are you using P5js for rendering ?

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 21

Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 21

Most educators have moved from denial about AI to cautious use, but the real cutting-edge is creators twisting it to reveal off-label uses and glitches. At least that's what I claim in this UT podcast edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca/made-for-u-o... citing @eryk.bsky.social @annamillsoer.bsky.social

MADE for U of T | Ep. 13 | Generative AI in practice

In the 13th episode of MADE for U of T, we hear from artist and new media educator Jon Ippolito about the evolving role of generative AI in teaching, creativity, and the future of media.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 26

Merci pour le partage de cet article!

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 25

Proud to have my research featured alongside Sasha Luccione/Hugging Face Noman Bashir/MIT Marissa Loewen in this AP story on ways to reduce your AI climate impact—and a surprising blind spot most users have about their digital footprint. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost

As AI becomes a part of everyday life, its massive energy and water needs are coming more into focus

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 22

Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep. It teaches the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online digitalcuration.umaine.edu

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