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Andy Roddick

@aroddick.bsky.social

Associate prof @ McMaster; Andean Archaeologist; Bolivia; Dad; Photographer; Cyclist, Music. roddick_a@mstdn.social Opinions mine not of my employer.

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · yesterday

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h ago

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Joanne Hammond@joannehammond.bsky.social · 18h ago

Is it the cutest arrowhead I’ve ever found? Yes! Is it light, lethal and still sharp af? Also yes! Such skilled technique and artistry to make this charming killer from a single flake of volcanic stone 😍 Recovered in Tl'kemtsin / Lytton, Nlaka'pamux territory.

A teeny tiny arrowhead held between my finger and thumb. It’s a glossy grey black chipped stone triangle the size of a fingernail. A teeny tiny arrowhead held between my finger and thumb. It’s a glossy grey black chipped stone triangle with a notch on either side near the base, for attaching it to an arrow shaft. It’s a little silty.
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19h ago

Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing climate fires across Europe and North America. Meanwhile the planet burners are making record profits. And they are hitting up the Canadian taxpayers for $100 billion for another pipeline. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Andy Roddick@aroddick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just learned of this artist George Boorujy. If you've ever been to La Brea Tar Pits, his beautiful illustrations of animals from the pits are on the outdoor signage. A bizarre misstep that his name is never mentioned on the signs. It took detective @kjkillackey.bsky.social to find him.

Brigit Strawbridge@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 3y ago

“He stands there, bobbing and bobbing as though the water’s applauding him.” Norman MacCaig, from his poem ' 'Dipper' Painting by American artist, George Boorujy #birds #art #poetry

GeWilli@gewilli.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gathering bits of Ezra's story bit by bit. His flickr account is gone, his food videos seem to be gone, so much digital history shared at the dawn of direct digital content (2006-2013) is gone. Why is worth a thought piece (maybe). Here's an NPR article that's still up: www.npr.org/sections/pic...

Cancer, 'Fixies' And Flickr Friendships

A friendship over fixed-gear bikes blossoms as a Flickr user battles cancer — and shares his experience with the world.

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GeWilli@gewilli.bsky.social · 6d ago

Any of you on Flickr back in '05+ remember Ezra Caldwell aka Fast Boy [cycles]? Early cycling blog scene folks remember him? His flight w/ass cancer that he lost too soon? Glen wrote this song for Ezra. Fully and extra crushed right now. Grateful for people like these 2 youtu.be/s_le35eei-g?...

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Given that we are all upset today about Anthropic-shredding-books, I’ll add that I address this here, and it’s part of the same infrastructure threatening the preservation and profession of history but people don’t want to talk about that if the same industry is paying for their research.

It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation - that's Eric Schmidt of Google - funding a fellowship in Al at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation's support of the Scroll Prize to use Al in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding Al into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of Al companies buying and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist. But the public should know the dangers of ceding the precious work of peering into the past to those whose chief aims are to exploit it for data and build visions of our collective history to their own liking.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last wk.

“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...