We're probably all underestimating how powerful a player the fossil fuel lobby is in the AI "revolution."
This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.* Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy. And big tech has nothing to say about it. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid
1) Croupier 2) Cinema projectionist 3) Untrained florist at a hospital (thought it was a cleaning job, rocked up for my first shift and I was the only one there???) 4) Aldi checkout 5) Closed captioner
Sex House was the best thing The Onion ever did, and every once in a while I like to mention it in the hope that someone who's never heard about it will be able to avoid reading the comments and go in blind
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I finally got to see Problemista last night and itâs such a joy when you find a new film thatâs an instant favourite and you know you will never be normal about it. The way Tilda Swinton interacts with an iPad is burned into my soul.
a post I made a couple years ago about corporate-made/purity driven art vs indie pulp expression www.tumblr.com/artofchira/7...
