AWS outage update:
Customers of Eight Sleep – a smart bed company that connects to the internet to control the temperature and incline of a person’s bed – found they were unable to adjust the bed or the temperature of the bed during the outage because they were unable to connect to the bed in their phone app.

My bed was ok.

“When we talk about the AI supply chain, we’re talking about one of the most resource-intensive industrial systems on the planet. Every AI model you interact with is the endpoint of a long, complex and often opaque chain of extraction, processing, manufacturing, computation and disposal."

I spoke to Sara Marcucci, founder of the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance, for Truthdig to find out more about AI’s hidden impact:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/can-ai-be-just/

Meta's "ground breaking" AI-led research that discovered 135 new materials for efficient carbon removal - was essentially rubbish,. according to researchers at Heriot Watt Uni. None of the materials worked - some were simply hallunicated.

Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO₂ removal, scientists say

https://archive.is/8sYNv

It is an unshakeable article of faith in Silicon Valley that technology brings abundance. And in abundance. More wealth, more stuff, even more technology. More of everything.

But now with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book also called Abundance, influential progressive voices are calling for it too.

which strand of abundance we want: the nasty abundance or the nice abundance.

Abundance itself is not up for discussion: whatever happens, we’re getting it.

https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/technology-and-the-abundance-myth?r=1m8y4b