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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

It's even worse than we thought

"(Energy use doesn't scale linearly), for instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip."

Gema vs. OpenAI: ChatGPT hat offenbar schlechte Karten Die Verwertungsgesellschaft beklagt die Nutzung von Liedtexten durch die KI. Gleich zu Beginn des Verfahrens gibt das Gericht eine vorläufige Einschätzung ab.

#Popkorn. Ich brauch mehr Popkorn.
Das ist ganz großes Kino!

#Gema vs. #OpenAI: #ChatGPT hat offenbar schlechte Karten

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Having a bad day??

This video will cheer you up... 😅

#cat #catday #bluesky #animals

your moment of calm chaos... baby raccoons playing in the kiddie pool...

Und nein, Schiebetüren am Van beheben das Problem nicht!

...nur falls sich jetzt jemand wundert: nein, mein heutiger #Wochenendeinkauf war nicht entspannt.

Liebe #Verkehrsplaner, wenn beim genehmigten aufgesetzten #Parken mit den heutigen Autobreiten die #Fußgänger zwangsweise auf die #Fahrbahn ausweichen müssen, weil neben den heiligen Blechen nicht mehr genug Platz ist, dann fließt der Verkehr zwangsweise deutlich langsamer! (und lauter mit #Hupen)!

Ich habe zunehmend den Eindruck, die #Verkehrsplanung in #Hildesheim würde am liebsten auch noch die #Busse zusammen mit den #Radfahrern auf dem #Gehweg fahren lassen, damit die #Autos mehr Platz haben!

Liebe #Autofahrer, wenn sich beim aufgesetzten #Parken die gebäudeseitige Fahrzeugtür nicht ganz öffnen lässt, ohne ans Haus zu knallen, dann reicht der Platz auch nicht für #Mama mit #Kinderwagen, #Oma mit #Rollator, oder mich mit den Einkäufen im #Hackenporsche!

Hab mich jetzt nicht getraut, zu gucken wie lange ich Samstag mit den #ROSA #Bussen zum #Wertstoffhof brauchen werde, um den alten Lackverdünner abzugeben...

Kleine #ÖPNV Studie in #Hildesheim mit der #ROSA App: aus der Oststadt zu einem Baumarkt ( #Prevo, #Obi, oder #Hagebau). Bei allen (aus Hagebau im Feld auf der anderen Seite der Stadt) wäre ich #zuFuß genauso schnell (35 Min) oder schneller da und auch nicht weniger gelaufen.
Geht besser, oder?

#Apple with #LiquidGlas, #Microsoft with #Teams & #Copilot, #Google with #Gemini instead of #Search, #Mozilla #AI-ed the #Firefox...
What of that is to your liking as #customer?
Notice a pattern?

Wow. Drei Schulklassen mit großem Gepäck im #SEV von #Hildesheim nach #Hannover. Man bin ich froh, dass ich in die andere Richtung muss! Die passen nie-nich in den einfachen Bus. .

This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people.

We often worry about the wrong things.

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
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Backblech mit Apfelkuchen / Baking pan with apple pie.

Erster #Apfelkuchen der #Saison: #HolsteinerCox / First #applepie of the #season: Holsteiner Cox.

Das Krisenmanagement der #DeutschenBahn sorgt dann dafür, dass auf den anderen #Nahverkehrslinien im weiteren Umkreis [so jeweils bis Hamburg-Aachen-Berlin-Köln] auch nichts mehr geht...

Desaturated seascape acrylic painting of a little sailboat in a stormy weather.

Seascape No.15 - Acrylic (2023)
#art

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend?

🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length.

🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

Meldungen im Laufe des Tages in #Norddeutschland: immer noch kein #Trinkwasser in Teilen von #Hildesheim, kein #Gas im Kreis #Göttingen, und #Berlin Adlershof sitzt ohne #Strom da.
Vielleicht statt neue #Autobahnen zu bauen lieber mal was #reparieren bevor es auseinander fällt?

Cat in sheep clothing... 👀♥️

#cat #catday #bluesky #nature

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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The day Return became Enter A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

#Fascinating article about the messy transition from #typewriter to #computer.

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One of the reasons that I'm now using #Linux & #LibreOffice. #Word to Cloud isn't their only attempt to squirrel my #work onto their #servers for #AI consumption.

Baby gophersnake frozen on a busy roadway. It was picked up and moved to a nearby grassland area, away from traffic.

PSA: It is tiny baby noodle season and you should keep an eye out just after dark as the tiny baby noodles have not leaned about cars yet. #herps

🔥 Warner Bros is suing Midjourney!🔥

They've cited mine and Gary's work like in the other suit, including that I was banned for criticizing the company.

This now means Midjourney is being sued by Warner Bros, Disney, Universal, and the class action from artists.

Let's gooo! 🔥

This is the cutest thing you'll see today! 😊

#dog #dogday #cat #catday #bluesky

Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves

Graham Greene in Maverick

Graham Greene in The Last of Us

Graham Greene in Marvel’s Echo

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

A comic in which the first panel is labeled “Sharknado”