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href weekly | June 16 – June 22 2025

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“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 | June 2 – June 8 2025

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mythcloud.eu explores the enduring power of shared stories and their relevance to our everyday lives. It is an open education resource developed as part of Erasmus+ project Digital Mythologies.

“It’s a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo.” https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

“People are already trusting today’s friendly, patient, often insightful AIs for facts and guidance on nearly any issue, and they will be vulnerable to being misled and manipulated, whether by design or by emergent behavior.” What AI Thinks It Knows About You

“Developing a robust ethics, in other words, is participatory and cultural; rules have to be worked out in the complex context of the human experience, with a lot of trial and error. Maybe we should have known that commonsense rules, whether coded into a positronic brain or approximated by a large language model, wouldn’t instill machines with our every value.” What Isaac Asimov Reveals About Living with A.I.

“Deep learning can act as co-pilot. Without the eye of the humanist, though, you don’t stand a chance at decipherment.” https://longnow.org/ideas/the-codes-ai-cant-crack/

Gardening

“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward .. Our bondage will steal upon us noiselessly and by imperceptible approaches.” https://orionmagazine.org/article/natural-intelligence/

Travel

Love getting updates from my kids – they are working on Bornholm this month

Politics & Economics

Fascinating reporting on the role of shortwave #radio in the rise of far-right militias https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-divided-dial-episode-2-you-must-form-your-militia-units

Why You Should Shop at Your Farmers Market This Summer https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/02/Why-Shop-Farmers-Market/