When folks wonder why I continue to be COVID cautious, I point to folks like Kwame McKenzie. We must base policy, planning & comms on acute and long term outcomes. So folks actually have info to access risk. TVO Today - Has Everyone Forgotten About COVID? | The Agenda m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXaH...
This is your reminder that thesaurus dot com is (almost certainly) using AI to generate thesaurus entries, and you should, if you can, use Merriam Webster to avoid accidentally destroying the planet via the fuckery machine.
The real questions are: 1. Who saves millions? 2. Who pays with their future? The answers are: 1. A few ultra rich. 2. Everyone.
Climate catastrophe will crest as AI initiatives burst carbon caps through their voracious energy consumption, meanwhile exhausting water supplies. Movies for dystopia.
Lionsgate has signed a deal with AI company Runway, and hopes that AI can eliminate storyboard artists and VFX crews. The studio says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”
The studi says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”
Shut this bullshit down. They're cooking the planet so serve whom, exactly? Not us.
Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies are reporting.
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
I will always find an excuse to post the warbler butt guide nemesisbird.com/reviews/book...
The Warbler Guide Tom Stephenson & Scott Whittle 560 pp. | 6 x 8 1/2 | 1,000+ color illus. 50 maps Princeton University Press | ... Read More
I'm watching complete fools drive onto a street with a big "road closed" sign. They drive 10 houses down, find a gaping hole/excavator, pull a U-turn. One after another. Every few minutes. All day. As though they can't read. Or are so entitled, they think the gaping hole doesn't apply to them. 🤷♀️
Working on new stuff, waiting for the last batch of subs to get rejections (don't worry, I'm not as morose as I sound), I've been trying to remind myself of recent publication success stories and share them with you here. I love this poem. Am I allowed to say that? davidjbauman.com/2024/01/08/a...
I've been thinking about my publication successes of 2023. Not as many as I might have wanted, but definitely more than I remembered. I've been working on some new pieces, and pretty much have cleared...
I'm making a White Bean and Fennel Soup - Thank you farmers market for the excellent fennel!! New-to-me recipe calls for a prodigious amount of fennel. I am some what afraid 😳