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OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

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Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation.

As long as “climate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests.

Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for boarding schools in the United States. Not sure what boarding schools are? You are not alone. Only 4 states include the history boarding schools in their curriculum.

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves.

The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Hell, this man literally created a watch list of professors to harass and abuse resulting in death threats. This was not a civil man. Stop sanitizing his legacy.

Putting a fracked gas pipeline at Riis Beach ESPECIALLY is homophobic #stopnese

Send Comment #6 Gov Hochul, NYS DEC and to the NYS DPS Send Comment #6 to Governor Hochul NYS DEC and to the NYS DPS to reject Williams Transco's Permit and National Grid's Long Term Gas Plan Background: The New York State Department of Environmental C...

#STOPNESE

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NJ DEP just disabled all attendee mics in the ONE public hearing that was scheduled bc folks were speaking up during the break. Why are they fast-tracking #NESE and silencing NJ citizens? We do not want this pipeline! #StopNESE

They are shutting down the hearing without letting everyone speak. NJ DEP disabled all our mics again to prevent us from complaining.

I waited 4 hours for nothing. This process has been a farce from Day 1. I hope the #NJDEP has a spine and protects NJ by denying all permits #StopNESE

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

“People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”

Dorothy Day

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

This is the shame-the-consumer ploy that the fossil industry has been running for years: 'You need to use stuff more efficiently...'

But it was the packaging industry that invented it, long before that: 'The problem is that you (personally) don't recycle...'

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

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Swarm of jellyfish shuts French nuclear plant Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear power plant were shut down late Sunday due to a swarm of jellyfish in the filter drums that pull in cooling water, operator EDF said on Monday.

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The moon over Brooklyn honest to god just hit my eye like a big pizza pie

YouTube video by Sister Susan Francois, CSJP visit #DelaneyHall private for profit #immigration prison in Newark. #wecannotbesilent #freethemall

Report from Saturday morning at #DelaneyHall private for profit immigration prison in Newark. #wecannotbesilent

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We Cannot Be Silent Friends some seriously (and apparently intentionally) inhumane actions are being perpetrated in our name and funded by our tax dollars. This is true on many levels and across the country, but this …

Friends some seriously (& apparently intentionally) inhumane actions are being perpetrated in our name & funded by tax dollars. This story is local & takes place a 20 minute drive from my house at Delaney Hall, a private for-profit prison in Newark, New Jersey

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Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9. T...

Brazil’s largest #Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions,

This comes as the world marks International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9, as @aimeegabay.bsky.social reports:

I’m thinking of my friend John Lewis today on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

John was severely beaten by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge for marching for the right to vote. Those harrowing images shocked the nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Belief in divine (versus human) control of earth affects perceived threat of climate change - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Belief in divine (versus human) control of earth affects perceived threat of climate change

Study: “Religious characteristics are predictive of Americans’ skepticism toward climate-related science and policy. Though attributable to a variety of interrelated factors, we propose specific religious beliefs help explain the dynamic in part.”

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

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