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Philosophene
@philosophene.bsky.social
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Life long local foreigner. Fallibilist. High Priest in the Church of the Mundane. Mostly Baryonic. Wry. Ennui we go!
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carsondrewit.bsky.social
If you see this, post blue art 🌑
#pixelart
A pixel art illustration of a moonlit graveyard with a variety of graves in it, ranging from a freshly dug open grave, to a mausoleum on a hilltop.
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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deerz.one
May 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs. A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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sesmith.lol
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
What happens when the internet disappears?
Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
a free thing you can do when an author is promoting a book they worked hard on, and you don't want to read it, is just not say anything!
kattagee.bsky.social kattagee @kattagee.bsky.social · Nov 27
Why would I want to pay to read what I already know?
November 28, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
*Loudly at poker table* I'M BLUFFING
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Nov 26
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose massive tariffs was an early warning shot to try to force the hand of allies and adversaries to come to the negotiating table on immigration and trade issues, a transition official told CNN.
Trump tries to force other countries to negotiating table on immigration and trade with promise to hike tariffs | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose massive tariffs was an early warning shot to try to force the hand of allies and adversaries to come to the negotiating table on immigration and trade i...
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November 26, 2024 at 10:25 PM