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thanks Jack!

thanks Jack!

📢 It's the last week for PhD students to apply for an internship with FATE (Fai

📢 It's the last week for PhD students to apply for an internship with FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in NYC! 🎉 We welcome a wide range of disciplines (CS, STS, law, anthro, media studies, philosophy) apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?...

Thanks Jer! 💚

Thanks Jer! 💚

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop." AI

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop." AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

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thanks for sharing it!

thanks for sharing it!

Hallucinations and vibe citing - a primer for public policy in 2025 🫠

Hallucinations and vibe citing - a primer for public policy in 2025 🫠

The EPA is being rolled back to the 1980s. Think big hair, WHAM, and Exxon hidin

The EPA is being rolled back to the 1980s. Think big hair, WHAM, and Exxon hiding the fact that burning fossil fuels was driving climate change.

perhaps...but the incontrovertible evidence is already out there, and these kind

perhaps...but the incontrovertible evidence is already out there, and these kinds of cases tie up and financially ruin organizations

We've gone from climate change denial to climate change criminalization. First t

We've gone from climate change denial to climate change criminalization. First they defund the science, now the FBI is prosecuting groups like Habitat for Humanity for fraud. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

Meta *removed* @gilduran.com's article because it was about "topics like the ‘Ne

Meta *removed* @gilduran.com's article because it was about "topics like the ‘Network State’ concept and critiques of tech industry figures..." 👀

And now for the latest in fresh hell...

And now for the latest in fresh hell...

Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - p

Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears. @giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...

Rare earths are central to the US administration's capture strategy: from Ukrain

Rare earths are central to the US administration's capture strategy: from Ukraine to Greenland. When people exclude the mineral dependencies of AI (as with most everything else) they're missing the story www.ft.com/content/65ee...

The International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for

The International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for energy demand. Data centers are one of the major drivers. Here's why that's significant: www.theverge.com/news/614356/...

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capi

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.