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I am interested in urbanism, sustainability and the Beautiful Game (Rugby League). I am from Queensland. He / him

My face when I have air con that beats the increasingly hot summers brought about by boomer lifestyles that fundamentally disregarded energy efficiency and carbon emissions

Poster: Azerbaijan - the Second Cotton Base of the USSR.

Yes I am victim blaming, and no I don’t care: the entire industry has used fear as the cornerstone of its marketing for years; threatening people’s way of life in the abstract while damaging the economy, stealing peoples work etc. You don’t get to walk that back just because it became real for you.

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Here's my counter argument: Do data centers have an environmental impact? Yes, in water, in energy, in ewaste. Arguing about the scale of that impact is fundamentally missing the point because it is an impact that would not be there at any scale if not for the extensive AI use...

My main takeaway from replies to my LLM post yesterday is that a lot of people are now tying a lot of their self worth and/or creative processes to a black box tool that’s either gonna crash out or go up in cost exponentially at a later point in the ‘disruptor’ playbook.

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

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Look who I saw yesterday: Fluffy escaped an emu farm and moved into the conservation area next door. Now they occasionally pop out to say hello to mountain bikers or go for a jog with the local Parkrun group. Rangers monitor them and report that they are healthy and happy.

By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.