AI's Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions
I've always been uncomfortable that we sell computers to everybody, including Big Oil. But if there were regulatory incentives it would matter a lot less.
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Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It
This is an interesting take on both the cheerleaders and the tech itself. Personally I think a lot of it is currently useless but it's also not going away.
they focus great energies on supplicating to this immense imaginary demon (thrilling! terrifying!) instead of integrating with the culture at hand (boring, and you get yelled at)
AI is like having my very own shameless monster as a pet
But how are they going to teach a computer to behave if they can’t?
Sneakers – Laboratory for Molecular Science
Fun story from the professor who was the math consultant on Sneakers
Pluralistic: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good (15 May 2024)
It's going to get bad. Really bad. And no one can stop Google short of stopping using them.
Google’s broken link to the web
They are very explicitly killing what's left of the web as we knew it.
Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
I don't think any big company puts enough time into maintenance. Ask me how I know
We checked in with Hollywood writers a year after the strike. They're not OK
It's been a massive contraction and further sign we need UBI
M4 iPad Pro Review: Here we go again
Once again the software is the problem.
Why ending homelessness downtown may be even harder than expected
Those shelter numbers compared to population seem to be a huge factor.
Fellas, is it gay to like pop music? (or: “Toxic”) — Keenan
Lots of pop is great but there's definitely a form of being "cool" by hating on what's popular. Author speaks to how "gay" was used insultingly for this in '90s and how they were closeted at the time.
Supreme Court should treat homeless people with dignity. Rule against Grants Pass.
Very good piece. The fact that this has to be debated is such a failure.
Not In Our Name: Jewish Students’ Response to Swarthmore College Repression — voices
A scathing rebuke of the college administration.
How Ticket Brokers Transfer 'Untransferable' Tickets
Of course there are ways around it.
Every "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Character Ranked by Who Would Make the Best Third
The author does not like Riker!
Equity or Private Equity: Where Do Our Values Lie? — voices
Another spot on piece from Ben
Ben Williams '99: Letter to the Editor - The Phoenix
I really liked this note from SWILlie Ben on how Swat's board does not remotely represent its stated values.
I judged Taylor Swift’s album immediately after it came out. Here’s why I was wrong | CNN
I need to sit more with the lyrics too.
The only thing university administrators had to do was NOTHING.
It really is all a power grab by disingenuous right wing actors.
Just agree with everything the hostile Republicans say, and hope they applaud you at the end
The Millennial CAPTCHA
They got me.
Academia: On The Inside?
Great collection of thoughts on how university administrators are misreading the moment.
Ode To An Outpost | gedblog
Old (so some questions about DS9 characters have been answered) but hard not to see the love. The only thing I don't agree on is Vic Fontaine.
A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest
Pretty much.
Digital reading soars in Seattle, creating problems for local libraries
Need to regulate this pricing, especially since it's being paid for by public money. And I doubt publishers would have sold these.
Lacework’s AI Didn’t Work
An example of failed anomaly detection?
Trump Privately Rages About His Sketch Artist, Courtroom Nap Reports
Maybe he'll get angry enough he just keels over?
OK, she’s worth $1 billion, but can Taylor Swift write poetry? We ask the experts.
Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” will be released on April 19. In advance, we asked poets what they think of the pop star’s wordsmithing.
“I hope it inspires them to write their own lyrics, to write their own poems, and then to go in search of poets who have dedicated themselves to poetry. I think that’s the best possible scenario.”
Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift
Huh! Lots of trans hormone info could help menopausal cis gender women
The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say "bird flu in cows"
Zoonotic diseases again!
Inside the cheating scandal rocking D.C.’s trivia scene
Gasp!
A Kiss with Teeth - Reactor
A good one from one of the cowriters of This is How You Lose the Time War, which came up in book club this week.