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   El Duvelle (elduvelle@neuromatch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 05:28:47 JST El Duvelle

   This is not a joke... A press release from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:

   "Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"

   ... while the government also pushes for full-blown investments in, and adoption of, "genAI" (e.g. here ) with absolutely no mention of the environmental costs.. which are surely orders of magnitude worse than whatever a server uses to store old pictures, and for what?! 🤦🤦🤦

   #GenAI #SavingThePlanet

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     anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 06:53:46 JST anderbill

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     • Return of Aadmaa

     @aadmaa2 @elduvelle whew! i already have a lot on my shoulders. 😰

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     Return of Aadmaa (aadmaa2@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 06:53:48 JST Return of Aadmaa

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     @elduvelle

     "Making citizens responsible for curbing the climate crisis
     One particularly significant rhetorical strategy the oil industry has adopted is to place responsibility for climate change mitigation and adaptation on the individual."

     https://theconversation.com/how-oil-companies-put-the-responsibility-for-climate-change-on-consumers-214132