Högfungerande byråkrat. På svenska: Mest tråk om bostadspolitik ur ett perspektiv från norr. Förhoppningsvis inte för frekvent.
Nerd, architect and urban planner. In english: A few toots about important stuff like architecture and conan the barbarian.
Made a London pattern handle in rowan for an old chisel found at a flea market. Made without a lathe, because remember kids; using the proper tool for the job is cheating!
It is a bit wonky, but I am still rather pleased with the result.
Internet-søgning i dag: "hvad hedder den første Harry Potter-bog?"
AI-overblik: "Den første Harry Potter-bog hedder 'Harry Potter og den magiske skraldespand'."
*100 links til Harry Potter merch*
Imens, på det lokale bibliotek: "jeg læste engang en bog, jeg kan ikke huske noget om den, der var vist nogle bogstaver i titlen, måske også nogle tal og forsiden var blå. Eller rød."
Bibliotekar: *finder bogen* (forsiden er gul)
Today I learned that there is an AI data center being built in the Indian city of Raipur, where I used to live.
Raipur is very hot (Wikipidia says the record high is 47.9C), and I'm pretty sure that doesn't take the effect of humidity into account. It wasn't always this hot, but it gets a little worse each year and that has added up.
The majority of the city's electricity is sourced from coal power plants, and for a variety of reasons its grid is not especially stable, with particularly frequent blackouts during the rainy season. That often means that there's no AC during the most humid and second-hottest time of the year.
It is dry year-round except for those few months of monsoons, when the local groundwater reserves are replenished. Despite the intensity of those storms, there have been progressively worse water shortages every year. I've done a lot of rooftop gardening there to reduce the urban heat island effect, and I've watched all but the most heat and drought-resistant plants wither and die. At times water was being brought in by tanker trucks and there just wasn't enough for both human use and the whole garden.
I find it difficult to imagine a worse place to build an AI data center, and yet here we are. They are going to burn coal to power the AI chips and cooling rigs during heat waves and water shortages that are already literally deadly to the people living there.
This is the sort of thing people are justifying when they talk about how much more productive they are thanks to their spicy corporate autocomplete. The anger that I feel is not some abstract moral high ground, but a visceral reaction to having gone outside in deadly climate conditions to spread an insufficient amount of water on my dying plants.
When they say that AI is the future, this is what that actually means.
In one on one fights they rarely injure each other if they are about the same size. Though there might be injuries that I can't see since there will be stinging, and formic acid and other impacts that I can't detect. But mostly they seem to both survive.
If more than one ant gangs up on an ant on her own she's in big trouble. They seem to try to avoid this.
Unless it pavement ants who love fighting each other.
They do seem to do a lot of deescalation.
Brukar ibland tänka på språk- och dialektforskning. Mamma har berättat att det kom ett gäng forskare från Helsingfors för att undersöka finskan i svenska tornedalen. Morfars mor var en av dom som spelades in. Vad gjorde hon när det kom finfolk från Helsingfors för att intervjua?
Självklart pratade hon sin bästa riksfinska!
SVT verkar ha automatiserat sina svar ang. Alinia:
"Hej.
IFS är ett humorprogram som rör sig rakt in i skärningspunkten för debatten om ”vi och dom”. Det innebär också att programmet har med gäster som provocerar och väcker starka reaktioner.
Just nu spelar vi in en ny säsong som kommer att publiceras i höst. Vi är trygga med att de färdiga programmen kommer att hålla sig inom SVT:s publicistiska och etiska riktlinjer – precis som tidigare säsonger har gjort.
/SVT"
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