People who talk about how “traumatized” they were by “the pandemic (past tense)” are almost always the ones doing their best to carelessly prolong it. I’d say it’s mind boggling but ableist beliefs always lead people away from understanding how much they’re hurting themselves.

Welcome to Alberta: World Leader in Ivermectin and Chemtrail Research. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Over a thousand students out today at USC to protest the school’s decision to not allow valedictorian Asna Tabassum to make a graduation speech.

The students will not be quiet.
LET ASNA SPEAK!

Zuck says in this interview that the main barrier to AGI soon is energy, which expands at regulatory, not technological, pace. He notes that there has yet to be a gigawatt data center.

Data centers used to have to be placed close to demand, for speed reasons. But AI training is

Last call! Due Monday!

If you’re still thinking about it…

Massive walkout at Harvard in solidarity with Columbia students today. no better way to bring students together than a demonstration of universities’ appetite for repression

🎙️Coming out Monday on The Data Fix:

Diversity, with Catherine Stinson and Sophie Vlaad

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I don't think the UCP works from the factual basis of anything anyway

A bunch of new Life in Pixels conversations just dropped.
First up, I spoke with V21 Collective about her excellent new book 'Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism' (@VersoBooks, 2023). vimeo.com/933382708

Adobe Firefly GenAI won’t let users generate image of person giving the “middle finger” but it does allow the “center finger”

blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview… LSE Business Review

Per the model card, Llama-3 training consumes ~5,390MWh. Let me add the water: ~1 million liters of direct water **consumption** (i.e., evaporated into the sky), or roughly 135 persons' household annual water consumption in Europe.

Students pay tuition, how can you arrest them for “trespassing” on their own campus? This is precisely where it is safe and legal to hold protests according to universities themselves! Such hypocrisy!

This was reportedly a self-immolation.

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NYPD arrested at least 30 Columbia University students holding a peaceful demo calling on the university to divest and to end its political repression of pro-Palestine student activists.

They also detained 2 legal observers.

Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do 404media.co/netflix-doc-wh…