**This Tues., 10/1/24, 11a-12:30p, Northampton College Center 114** Come check out Dr. Holly M. Wendt @hmwendtbit.ly/NCC_Wendt . Spread the word :).
"It’s hard to not want the best for your children — and not to define it as them starting the next Amazon. But stop and think about what actually makes them happy and keeps them sane, not what you think will keep them safe."
finally, a higher ed opinion piece about “college as job prep” written from a student perspective. worth reading. gift link.
Economic anxieties are generating crushing pre-professional pressure on campuses, destroying college life and damaging students’ mental health.
also it can kill you with poison mushrooms and cause massive increases in fossil fuel usage and destroy the study of human language and impoverish millions of creative people and reinforce racism throughout the architecture of surveillance and punishment and
Any of my friends here local to the Lehigh Valley? Check out this public author event with @hmwendt.bsky.social
"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not personally reading the articles …” uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-a...
Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis, get rid of poverty, and unleash the full potential of human creativity?
My short essay "When We Used to Glow" is in the new issue of @hippocampusmag.bsky.social. It's about how there seem to be fewer lightning bugs than ever, and also about dying, and some other things
"When we say there used to be more lightning bugs, I’m afraid we’re really talking about how our parents used to be alive." -- Tom McAllister in "When We Used to Glow"
Hey my old Baseball Twitter pal Ruhee has a rip-roaring saxophone solo on this track and you should listen. survivalclub.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-...
track by Survival Club
"AI queries can use 30 times more energy than traditional searches" 😶 markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/...
"The cost of that Gen AI architecture is freaking out of control," Baird strategist Ted Mortonson told Business Insider.
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share