So…about AI’s energy use…
“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought
In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief writes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-russell-vought-prophetic-trump-second-term?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story turns out to be.
BARTIROMO: Can you acknowledge that Russia is the aggressor here? WALTZ: Well, you know what? Who would you rather have going toe to toe with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi or anyone else -- Joe Biden or Donald Trump? He's the deal maker in chief.
Anyone on the east coast of Australia looking for a beautiful Greyhound to adopt? Sweet Sarah has been in the care of my foster organisation for some time and is still looking for a furever home of her own :(
Please boost widely Australian friends, let's get Sarah into a home!
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In these troubled times, please remember to be doubly careful about protecting the privacy of others online.
Always ask before sharing any piece of someone else's personal data with a third-party.
This could be as banal as asking a person before sharing their email address with someone else or with some application or service.
Be careful. Sometimes it only takes one small piece of data to reveal an identity and put someone in danger.
Care for the data of others 💚
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which handles all prosecutions in the Seattle area, has instructed police in no uncertain terms: do not use AI to write police reports...for now. This is a good development. We hope prosecutors across the country will exercise such caution as companies...
The mob runs America, Sen Tillis was strongarmed into voting for Hegseth.
Hegseth’s allies bulled forward -accused Dems of peddling a smear campaign & went after reporters who wrote about the allegations -sought to discredit & silence Hegseth’s accusers. They sicced "MAGA GOONS" -a band of influential online combatants -onto GOP senators. It worked.
MAGA apparatus attacked Tillis as a RINO/threatened a primary. When Tillis asked to scrap the vote, Thune refused.
#USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/hegseth-confirmation-senate-trump-00201033
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