Online Conference➡️ Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due July 18, 2024: Date of online conference uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...
Oh wait I do have thoughts as a union member - within my union I was insistent on making minutes accessible and clear to present & future members (other favored vagueness for the sake of secrecy/security even where that wasn't really necessary imo)
Unfortunately I am leaving New Orleans soon and don't have any insights into meeting minutes! (But I do also study Bay Area labor history, hi!)
Go, Adam! Taking the EH to the OAH...
Immediately went from meeting fellow historian of screens @bhgross144.bsky.social#aseh2024 envirotech breakfast to meeting a fellow Kropotkin scholar at a panel on waste. Makes me appreciate the strong, complementary combination of technical, environmental, and political areas at ASEH.
Chicago style has fixed its only flaw. Other citation styles are about to enter a thousand years of stagnation and defeat as they cling to their horrid parentheses.
A new article argues that AI writing has lower carbon emissions than human writing... by counting air travel, gas, food, and heat towards human writing emissions
Staggering new projections for energy usage, largely driven by tech like crypto and LLMs. Portland doubled it's 5-year energy usage projection, Georgia's 10-year projection just went up 17-fold. wapo.st/435Sbhr
Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.