"In her latest study, the researcher demonstrated that producing a high-definition image using artificial intelligence consumes as much energy as fully rechar­ging the battery of your cell phone."

- AI is ‘accelerating the climate crisis’, expert warns
https://www.dawn.com/news/1859284

Drivers that don’t slow down for pedestrians or cyclists must be confusing themselves for Totoro riding the cat bus.
“Wow - the trees are making way for us!”

@rotan @thomasfuchs I see - thanks. Wouldn't a boxplot of the number of days per city across the years be a more faithful representation of the data?

@thomasfuchs ...LOL - but the "Clone Wars" was mentioned in Star Wars 1977 already so it surely predates these?

I'm not on #Twitter anymore (and neither are a lot of you on #Mastodon ) so maybe it's pointless to be posting it here, but if you are still on Twitter, you might want to think a bit about that...
I'm actually concerned so many scientists still use Twitter.
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-pro-trump-custom-hashtag-icon

Unsolicited advice and I appreciate the irony here, but this is something from my bitter experience: Be careful about who you take advice from. The wrong early advice can derail a project and setting it on a path of most resistant - and at the end of it the person that advised you will criticise you for going that route (or at least comment something like, you could have done something else) despite the fact that you followed their advice.

@steffen @fla Me too!