Notices by Ergative Absolutive (ergative@wandering.shop)

Hey, for anyone still sleeping on
@adapalmer new book on Inventing the Renaissance, the conversation between the Ambrosian Republic, Machiavelli, Francesco Sforza, Bianca Maria Visconti, Milan, the Milanese Ghibellines, and 19th-century historians is alone worth the cover price.

@bookstodon

Hey, for anyone still sleeping on @adapalmer's new book on Inventing the Renaissance, the conversation between the Ambrosian Republic, Machiavelli, Francesco Sforza, Bianca Maria Visconti, Milan, the Milanese Ghibellines, and 19th-century historians is alone worth the cover price.

@bookstodon

@cstross This is kinda what Rick Cook did in The Wizardry Cursed.

Hey, mastodon, I'm collecting articles to share with my students about the power required to run AI models, and the implications for climate change. I know there are a ton of them, and I've found a lot by googling, but if you have others that you find particularly useful, can you share them here?

(boosts welcome!)

To get the party started, here are some that I've found:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/openai-asked-us-to-approve-energy-guzzling-5gw-data-centers-report-says/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1084189/making-an-image-with-generative-ai-uses-as-much-energy-as-charging-your-phone/
https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/28/24111721/climate-ai-tech-energy-demand-rising

Fuck yeah

from: https://thefinishedproject.org/read-poetry, h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/drjclau.bsky.social

@inthehands Argh! I did forget the link! I will edit.

This is a good piece of writing from @inthehands , which I don't think will change very many minds because the people who click through to read it will probably already agree.

But it is an extremely satisfying articulation of something I believe strongly, and for all that I ostensibly value open-mindedness and expanding my experiences, it is also sometimes nice to be told what I think articulately and effectively.

Hey, Mastodon! Indiana's attorney general has created an anti-teacher snitch portal for people to report school teachers for being too woke. It allows you to upload files and everything!

There appears to be no safeguard against entering any text you want in any of the boxes, and no location/residence checking.

Dare I ask you to do your thing?

https://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/education-liberty/

Boosts welcome!

#academicChatter #education #bts #taylorSwift