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href weekly | June 16 – June 22 2025

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Bits

“data centres owned by Google alone used nearly five billion gallons of fresh water for cooling in 2022. A recent study concluded that global growth will command 1.7 trillion gallons of water by 2027. That’s half of the total annual withdrawal of the United Kingdom. .” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/06/10/AI-Demands-Be-Fed-All-Servers-Now/

“In the 2025 update of GifCities, we used AI tools to create a semantic-based search index to supplement the original search index to improve discoverability. Each GIF in the search results also links back to the original GeoCities page on which it was embedded (and some of these pages are even more awesome than the GIFs themselves).” https://gifcities.org/

“Things won’t change, because people are adaptable and want the system to succeed. We consequently take on the responsibility for making things work, through ongoing effort and by transforming ourselves in the process. Through that work, we make the technology appear closer to what it promises than what it actually delivers, which in turn reinforces the pressure to adopt it.” https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html

Sound & Music

A Beginner’s Guide to Northern Soul

There have been many and tributes over the last few weeks, but this #wfmu show from Dave The Spazz was my fav https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=153042&archive=271782

https://nativenorthamerica-variousartists.bandcamp.com/album/native-north-america-vol-1-aboriginal-folk-rock-and-country-1966-1985

Poilitics & Economics

” Due to a fluke of publishing and law, the shark is ” https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

href weekly | Oct 6 – Oct 12 2024

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A journalist asked him, “Professor Feynman, can you explain — in just a couple of minutes — what you won the for?” Feynman apparently replied, “Listen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize.” https://archive.ph/iD1Tn

The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2807 published records by 4731 authors from 990 sources https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/

a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written generated content on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

Sound & Music

… join the car crash set … https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36

Attended a wicked show with my daughter in this weekend https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514062

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom. https://www.ithappenedhere2024.com/2402472/about

Politics & Economics

“Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up.” https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments

1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. invites a game of weighted choices.
3. wields the energy of atomic bombs.
5. Our slowness to adapt incurs tremendous future costs.
4. Extreme storms kill slowly.
6. Every event reveals another fragility.
7. The crisis grows exponentially.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/07/Future-Named-Helene/