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people who complain about those of us who are anti-climate doom fail to ever mention that we have been trying their approach for decades and we have lost

people cannot be scared into change. the proof that it doesn’t work is that it fucking hasn’t

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Pioneer Works just announced their open call for art and music residents for next year. Get those apps in.. pioneerworks.org/residency

*taps sign*

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.

Wondering whether, on unionized campuses like mine, offloading grading to the LMS/LLM could constitute faculty breach of contract? Even tho admin pushes this slop, I fear usage could be weaponized against faculty. Yet another reason I’m pushing for an ethical tech policy in my senate work next yr

Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social.

Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89

In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:

Something monstrous about seeing more and more news confirming intentional deliberate starvation in Gaza and still see people center themselves by saying it makes them ‘uncomfortable’ to acknowledge that this is what it is

Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now

Thank you to @melhogan.bsky.social for introducing me to the brilliant work of Paul Schutze critiquing the idea of sustainable ai.

Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave — Mozilla staff's tracking overwhelmed by Intel crash reports, team disables the functio... The saga continues.

The European heatwave caused a spike in Firefox crash reports in due to a certain type of Intel CPU overheating. Turns out our computational hardware and software is also finely tuned to the long gone holocene. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

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Dream job - PioneerWorks is looking for a senior designer. Great Brooklyn based arts org and space. Get it.. pioneerworks.org/jobs/designer

There's still time to apply to be in the first cohort of this experimental school being launched by @shannonmattern.bsky.social with the NY metro library council. Dont snooze on this. Apps close tomorrow!

Washington DC is making public buses free forever Analysts say D.C.’s free fare system offers a good test case on how public transit can be reshaped for a post-pandemic future.

I’ll just leave this here, for reasons. You can drop this into the replies of car guys if you wish.

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There is an all-out global assault on the idea that government should help ppl & that ppl should help one another.

That's what ZM represents.

Elites of both parties in the US are engaged in this assault. Their goal: turn "the masses" against each other & prevent them from expecting better of gov.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

6.25.2025 | A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom — Millennial Money with Katie

This is such a great conversation with the always brilliant
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social - moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed

Well, well, well, responsible AI you say? Google has been found to under-report its emissions. Since 2019 their emission have risen 1,515%! And when was the biggest jump? Why in the most recent year of course because of AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

More from a sense of duty... But duty matters

Keep calling your Senators, hearing there's a bit of movement around some of the solar/wind cuts. (Not enough that any sane person would ever even consider voting for the stupid bill, of course, but still)
billmckibben.substack.com/p/more-from-...

Smart quantitative analysis of computer vision research. 90% power human surveillance. We need to be very wary of all 'computer vision for good' and "responsible AI" talk.

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

refreshingly chaotic

Love to the @hellgatenyc.com live election coverage… 💛

Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.

Great essay on resisting "armageddon academics"/"schooling for extinction" and the importance of teaching the past to free the future.

"It’s not just that schools are impacted by end times fascist policy; teaching young people to accept the end of the world is a prerequisite to bringing it about."

Screenshot of guardian article mentioned., on concept of hereness and not dreaming of escaping to mars or bunkers or some AI hellscape..

Slow to this, but really appreciate this clarifying piece by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social on end times fascism and what to do about it (spoiler: the answer is not escaping to mars/bunkers/AI hellscapes) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.

Having a LLM or another person writing your papers feels like a victory but it is just your own defeat, you felled by your own contempt for your future and anyone who believes in you.

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Job alert: The @processing.org is seeking a project lead for the Processing project. Applications due May 15…

a greyscale satelitte image of Musk's data centre - with a bright red marker showing emissions from the many (I think about 30) fossil fuel combustion engines on site

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre

“appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight"
@selc.bsky.social

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