Following Academia.edu's extractivist new terms I have deleted my account: "by creating an Account, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information ... in any manner."

Cool! Now let's spend as much money on philosophy departments as we do prisons and see what happens then!

Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Courageous Carole Cadwalladr: "Whatever they are saying, they are doing the exact opposite."

'Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember and celebrate 1.5, who passed away last year, in 2024, after a truly remarkable life.' Jason Scott-Warren's powerful eulogy for 1.5 degrees.

Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’

"Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined. Only about half of the demand is likely to be met from renewable sources."

Mostafa Henaway's relevant testimony at the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes arguing that temporary migrant labour is a continuation of the indentured labour regime of the British East India Company.

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New causalities are emerging: "Sewer fatberg of ‘grease and rags’ forces Bryan Adams to cancel concert."

Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images Starting from the premise that after modernism and postmodernism – in the Anthropocene – an artwork cannot rest upon its separation from the planet, this volume…

Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images is out in the UK (release in the US, AU, NZ in April).

Text on image stating, "Studies of US students have found that, on average, students could focus for only 6 minutes before switching to a technological distractor." The image also includes the logos for Global Environmental Politics and the MIT Press.

The authors of “Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis” outline some of the indirect ways in which generative AI and social media undermine the focus & veracity required to address the climate crisis: https://bit.ly/4gO2Cwc #OpenAccess via @gepjournal.bsky.social

A Warning to America - 2073 and The Arrival of Techno Authoritarianism YouTube video by The Citizens

Thank you all for joining us at the event, 'A Warning to America - 2073 and The Arrival of Techno Authoritarianism'

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The full event is now available to watch on YouTube
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

Adding to it by posting: "The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry."

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”