Oh that is not pretty
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Oh that is not pretty
It gon' be hot this week.
With the caveat I havent fact checked this, but I have seen numerous similar and corroborating write ups, both in terms of energy and water AI usage pales in comparison by orders of magnitude. andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh... Like the average USian uses ~100gallons of water a day. UK? ~36.
I think thats a little inaccurate - AI (whether you like it or not) is everywhere and completely changing how (some) people work. Choosing not to use it (can) come at a cost, too. And I think people dont understand the scale of energy/water costs of AI vs other things they use every day.
Right of course, but that type of violation is different to torrenting terabytes of books or movies or whatever Meta et al did to train their models.
Truly never understood scifi media where everyone hated robots until the last year or so. This made me chuckle. Fraking toasters, clankers.
YMMV. I've found the output/usefulness varies a lot depending on the model, the prompt, the context, etc. It can be very good, it can be very dumb.
For coding purposes, it's incredibly powerful. Most of the code it was trained on is gonna be stuff that was open source (in contrast to general text which was largely copywritten). The energy/water usage should be considered, but folks still meat and consume dairy products and fly planes and drive.
thats how it feels
I am curious what an input/output psychologist is. (Not curious enough to google it, just curious enough to make a bad joke)
yeah my uni advisor told me not to do a PhD so I wasnt super enamored with their advice lol
Googling "are there career counsellors for adults?" and coming to the most detached-from-reality reddit post i've ever seen:
He's only 27? I assumed he was like 40 ISH.
Britons wake up. This is not normal.
56 page contract to renew my lease, and it includes this incredibly unhelpful language. Written by a chump lawyer.
Chicago - excellent city, one of the best I've been to in America.
Yeah he is an odd one too. So bizarre
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
I always get so confused that the US and UK both have comic series named Dennis the menace and they both started in march 1951 and they're unrelated. Til: the creator of the US strip was a massive racist.
There's nothing quite as boring and kinda depressing as that first day when you're back from a trip. Gone is the excitment and adventure, and now you're hungry and you gotta figure that out too.
I believe it's the arse end of the great salt lake.
Seems we took a brief detour over Mars.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Both work tbh lol. And yeah it's a very valid philosophy. However I'm so very tired right now I'm not sure which I would pick
Pilot: "good news bad news. Bad news is that there's an engine fuel leak and we can't fly and you're all getting off the plane. Good news is that we caught it."
Google AI, I don't believe motion capture is called "fat capture" when the actor is bigger.
(it's probably a good and normal thing the PM has a British flag at his official residence. It should not ever ever be news, and the size of it couldn't be more obviously irrelevant unless you're a fascist)
Dear Britain, What the frak. Wake up. This is not normal.
Inequality is rife. It's pretty horrifying and ugly.
In thoroughly unsurprising news, the Kpop demon hunters soundtrack makes for a phenomenal "power walking through the airport between gates" experience
I got to count carrots every day. And sometimes work the tills. I used to remember every PLU. Ive since lost that knowledge to time
Worked in a supermarket. £5.35/HR. Many arguments with central payroll because they were paying me £5.3495 actually. If I was 17 it would have been £4.35 because age discrimination is rife.
Season begins with 4 episodes of miserable harry being abused in his nasty cousins house. (I always skipped the dursley chapters when I could)
I did not make it on the boat tour, but I enjoyed walking along the lake and river front a lot (17 miles over 2 days). Bridges are fun
And of course the highlight was a PCR lab. I still didn't get any more answers to my questions about DNA, but another time I'm sure.
I also saw a giant tardigrade, a bunch of fluorescent rocks, and some "economically important minerals" which I think means it counts as work.
At the museum yesterday I saw a couple of horrific things (taxidermy elephants, real tiger fur/skin including the head...) and horrifying things like an actual trex skull and fossilised skeleton
Well I didn't sleep in and miss my flight, mostly thanks to putting modern family on TV and every 30 minutes getting woken by that unnecessarily loud theme tune
Yvette, I'm confused.
If cancel culture were real, no one involved in the big bang theory would ever work again
She showed me photos of her and John Kerry and I feel I might have met Leslie knope
Turns out she is a DC person. Held at least one senate confirmed position. Environmental lawyer. I think I've not embarrassed myself too much. But we seem to agree on many issues.
Oh the trick is to have enough cast iron, fancy wine glasses, and specialty baking equipment that you can't dishwasher everything. Keeps you on your toes
This bathroom sign brought to you by both ignorance and how nasty men are. Effects is not transmission. And dear lord just wash your hands.
I went to shaws crab house and had pretty much the best oysters I've ever had. The accoutrements were crap and generic, but the oysters were world class
Absolutely
I think it's very good. It only works because of casino royale, for me, but it works really well
Craig only had three good films and quantum was one of them. Pierce should have had another film. Connery should have had at least one less. Dalton was great. ohmss is top 3 bond bond films. Not bond bourne.
Nigiri is just a fancy open faced sandwich; just a fancy hotdog. And all are beautiful things
You know you're at a stupid hotel restaurant when the lady next to you is just ordering biscotti (very off menu) for dinner and the bartender is going out of his way to pretend that's normal and making sure he gets her some. Literal boss level almond mom.
My ex used to call me either a cake slut or sushi slut. He wasn't wrong. Put some raw fish on some seasoned rice and I am *there*
I know if I vibe with a city based on how often I find myself walking the wrong way. Chicago is a miss on that front.
If you're ever in a bar and you're trying to show the size of your figurative penis by talking about "bars you used to own"... Just be quiet.
Oh sick I do need to go there
What blows my mind about the US is how many places have strong affinity with onions. Walla walla? Vidalia? Chicago? It's all about onions. And don't even ask idaho about potatoes.
Today I learnt it's not really the windy city. It's the smelly onion city
I'm trying not to miss my flight in 12 hours
Tiki bars are the best bars. Nb. Not all photos are *my* drinks.
Danger zone
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
What is this bollocks. An opt out surcharge of 3.5% to "offset" rising costs. But it's printed on a seasonal (2 week) menu. Just make the price the price.
Remember: the greater the emphasis placed on a lawyer being “distinguished” or “leading” the weaker the legal argument will tend to be. A good legal argument does not need such epaulets, and a bad legal argument is not saved by them.
"hello? Is anyone there?" Mine
This Japanese vieux carre is excellent but also enough. I'm going back to bed lol
Also just FYI. Running from nap to omakase is a rough switchup. You go from cosy in bed to having random bits of raw fish shoved in your face. I think it's taking me half the meal to wake up lol
If you've never walked into a fixed time seating Michelin star restaurant late, as the reason everyone hasn't started eating, you're lucky.
Had a nap and very nearly missed tonight's dinner reservation. Ugh
wake up babe a new slur just dropped
Ugh there's a man at this bar explaining what "the gays" do. And he's talking about meth.
Hate these woke attempts to make Enid Blyton “modern” and “relevant”
A cheeky glass of Krug. TBH this might be the first time I've had NV Krug. I think. It's wonderful. But the 1990 was wonderfuler
I'm disengaging in general lol
(this post inspired by the drunk douches next to me who tipped 8%)
I am a chronic over tipper. But it's not the worst thing about me, so I live with it.
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
Ok I've come to the conclusion this city is too big. There's too much to do.
Clumsy concrete Carl killed me
Linkedin needs an eye roll reaction. In lieu of that, I'm going with overly saccharine comments.
Baby carrots and crap like that.
Cardi B is a smart and funny woman. And that lawyer was trying to humiliate and embarrass and anger her. And asking questions which weren't micro aggressions, but just aggressions.
Questions to which the answer is simply racism.
Yeah the bean is fun
Saw an old man with a t-shirt that read, "professional crop duster" and I've never believed a joke t-shirt more.
Lol believe it or not, that's not on my list of places to live lol
Feels like one without the other. Majority of big cities are like this lol
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Anjou loire chenin dessert wine with a sweet corn churro. And then an Armagnac tasting. And then the petit fours
2016 reserva rioja with the beef. Beef was just way too rich and the crab Rangoon was way too much. So I only ate half and they put it in a doggie bag. The cheese was also an unnecessary extra order by me, but it was pleasant. The cocktail he made for it was excellent though. Strawberry cognac fizz
Franciacorta paired the scallop and uni, and it was easily the best uni I've ever had. Fleurie paired the surprisingly spicy lamb? The mole was delicious, the barbacoa a little... Unnecessary. Touraine was my aperitif, not photographed.
Sepia
Sourdough and cultured butter. An amuse Bouche of a savoury stuffed donut with ham on it?? I really didn't catch what she said but I wanted to marry it. Caviar with smoked fish and shiro dashi. So far incredible.
So far it's fantastic.
Hoping that I didn't accidentally book outdoor seating for dinner lol.
It really doesn't
I'm not cut out for big city life. 18 miles taking about 1 hour 40 in a car feels just like the biggest waste of time ever
This is worse than the affair at a Coldplay concert
