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“Dayflow’s open-source models also perform all of their processing on each user’s individual computer…appealing to those who don’t want to send their data to the cloud for privacy reasons.” The big AI companies will (& should) be toast. Let’s make sure they don’t toast the planet too.

More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AIAI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.www.nbcnews.com

On my way out the door for a few days and haven't listened yet, but it's @billmckibben.bsky.social, so this will be essential, cogent, and probably even encouraging. If my phone consents, I'll listen to it on my way to the coast!

You know what this ISN'T? An LLM. Once more for the folks in the back: nearly all of the actually useful, genuinely promising things that AI can do for us have nothing to do with LLMs & planet-devouring data centers. Hope, not hype. Serving us, not serving us up to Big Tech. @sciam.bsky.social

AI finds hidden ECG signal that predicts sudden cardiac death riskA new model uses a routine ECG to flag people at high risk of sudden cardiac death—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activitywww.scientificamerican.com

Has this made the rounds here yet? This may be the most insane post I've ever read. "I don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks. I went on a 4hr hike yesterday. Through the northern California redwoods. Got more work done in those 4 hours...then I do in 8 hours at my desk."

Alex Finn (@AlexFinn) on XI don’t think you understand what ChatGPT Voice unlocks I went on a 4 hour hike yesterday. Through the northern California redwoods. Got more work done in those 4 hours talking to Voice through my AirPods then I do in 8 hours at my desk Work can be done ANYWHERE now 45 minutex.com

Just went to The Odyssey, and enjoyed it...but I may never go to the theater again: there was a full half hour of ads beforehand (about half regular ads, then previews). After $27 tickets, and before a 3-hour movie? Are they TRYING to alienate folks?

100% this: "Real intelligence is inextricable from organic embodiment, from being a feeling organism passing through time and space shaped in every moment by its needs, fears, desires...“Artificial intelligence” is a highly consequential misnomer."

Why this philosopher turned down AnthropicThe AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questionsgiftarticle.ft.com

Seriously, @nytimes.com? You think an experimental psychologist is the person to listen to on data centers & the environment? Someone who considers the impacts of a person asking AI a question, rather than the impacts of massive new gas infrastructure for a dumb, inefficient, water-guzzling tech?

We are so, so winning.

Illinois Changes Tack on Data Centers (Gift Article)At the Aspen Ideas climate conference, Gov. JB Pritzker spoke about disincentivizing data centers instead of providing financial incentives.www.nytimes.com

"The lack of sanitation in the camps is in part due to the recent foreign aid cuts under President Trump." Nuremberg is the moderate option.

‘We Will All Die From Ebola Here’: Virus Stalks Crowded Camps in Congo (Gift Article)There are a million people displaced by violence in the epicenter. They live in dangerous conditions and are fighting the virus with very little clean water.www.nytimes.com

Well this is a real shock. I mean, he seems like such a solid businessperson.

I cannot wait till this absolutely BOMBS (and then Elon lies about it).

Mandate solar on parking lots in low-rise neighborhoods.

Listening to @edzitron.com's newest pod, and it's very clear that we need to instill some loss aversion into banks, because if they feared loss more than they relished gains....we wouldn't be here now. Sadly, we live in an age when Pangloss has beaten up Cassandra and hidden her in the basement.

Ooooh. When can I visit?

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard of (Gift Article)Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?www.nytimes.com

The air quality is only at "moderate", my nose doesn't register it as smoky, the windows are closed & the AC and air purifier on, but my eyeballs KNOW how much smoke is in the sky, and they object. Ugh!

It "calls for a 5k-long causeway to be built across the estuary shallows to deep water, where VLCC-class tankers with room for 2 million barrels of oil would dock...wedged between the port & the Fraser River, would be a...tank farm with 15 tanks, each holding 6.5 million barrels of oil." Just: no.

Just started The AI Mirror…and I’m hooked: “AI tools reflect the values of the wealthy postindustrial societies that build them. These are the very values that have brought us to our current heights of scientific ingenuity, but also to the 6th mass extinction and the brink of planetary devastation.”

It's almost like being passionate about life and justice can give you rizz.

Hey @governorferguson.bsky.social, maybe it's time we regulated the facilities causing this catastrophic increase in emissions, and threat to our water supplies?

I mean, I know that my particular bluesky feed is not what most people are seeing here, let alone what most people see on the news or in the papers. But. Aren't they sensing a theme? Some kind of strand connecting the fires and floods and heatwaves and wars?