Incredible things happening while watching Yomi no Tsugai

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

technologyreview.com

the overwhelming degree of unfettered evil that the past few years has revealed in all institutions of the world has done a real number on me. I never thought any of them were paragons of morality, but I somehow had an idea there were levels they wouldn’t stoop to.

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · last yr.

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

Me to my team: I'll be out of office for two weeks, but nothing major should happen dw The one thing allowing IT systems all around the world not to get hacked at every turn: [BRUTALLY DISAPPEARS]

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding

So it’s over then, works for me

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

arstechnica.com

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" #3E #EndOligarchy

A customer today: "Could you use AI for that?" Me: "I suppose one could, but I don't think it's necessary so I certainly won't" C, laughing: "That's not what I expected the AI expert to say" Me: "That's why I'm the AI expert and not the AI salesperson 🤓"

BREATHING HARD

Did I catch up on Interview with a Vampire just to get roasted?

Please don’t even talk to me in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, 27 hours of alone time, several months by the seaside to ease my agonies, and many decades to wander the earth until the fabled blade of my ancestors can finally be reforged

We're watching Yellowjackets at the moment and this episode was too spooky for me to go to sleep Clearly the answer is to watch another episode ... which is sure to be less spooky ....... right?

Went to see Hadestown the musical. At the end the guy seated next to us stood up, declared "I WEPT" and left, which I feel is an fine summary of the show