Bits
“data centres owned by Google alone used nearly five billion gallons of fresh water for cooling in 2022. A recent study concluded that #ai global growth will command 1.7 trillion gallons of water by 2027. That’s half of the total annual withdrawal of the United Kingdom. .” #climate #economics #energy 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).” #gif #web #history #archives 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.” #ai #llm #technology https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html
Sound & Music
A Beginner’s Guide to Northern Soul #bandcamp
There have been many #slystone and #brianwilson 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
#NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #canada #bandcamp 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 #copyright law, the #jaws shark is #publicdomain ” https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/