Anne Pasek

Anne Pasek

@apasek.bsky.social

STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes

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Anne Pasek
@apasek.bsky.social

Ontarians, the general population can get a flu shot on Monday! It's an early and mean flu year, so it's especially recommended.

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Moby Dick
@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale

Anne Pasek
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Basically, sometimes we've got to deprioritize the "Why are they like this???" question and be a little more curious about why, nevertheless, other sectors and interests want to associate themselves with tech assholes + gain something from joining in their project.

Anne Pasek
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Do I know any (pref. Canada-based) researchers working on cognitive atrophy, AI, and (higher) education? Asking for a journalists.

Anne Pasek
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The new season of Slow Horses is off to a great start. (Also, wow, it's been a good while since I've seen an artful establishing shot in a TV show).

Anne Pasek
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Also, in light of the near miss US strike on a Chinese merchant ship, I'm asking: 🕯️Please Slow Horses writers' room / Mick Herron: find a way to work idiots with LLMs into the future of this series🕯️

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Anne Pasek
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Hey if your Dean ever comes up to you and says, "hey colleague we need you to become an emergency program coordinator with a few week's notice. You can just bank the course release that comes with that role and use it later," think about how--indefatigably--later is not now.

Anne Pasek
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I've gotta run a welcome event for about 30 students in the same program, but in different years. I thus ask the necessary, brave question: Does anyone know any ice breakers that are actually good?

Anne Pasek
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Nice bread and trains conspicuously missing from the strategic priorities/tech transfer list!!!

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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Nathan Goldwag
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

All nationalism is fake but "we founded an independent country because we were angry about the prevailing price of oil and natural gas and disagreed with federal policies regarding pipeline investment" is even faker than usual.

Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱@glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social

I will say this. Quebec separatists usually come from a genuine belief that Quebec is a distinct culture and nation that should be a country. Alberta separatists seem to think of separation as a big "I'm mad" button that will magically force Ottawa to write them checks for being very special boys.

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Nick Tsergas
@nicktsergas.ca

Ontario is still writing its rules for datacentres. But Ford's pitchdeck for foreign investors explicitly markets Hamilton’s waterfront for deregulated AI datacentre development, including "sovereign" AI opportunities." Sovereign AI. Built for foreign investors. With no rules. #HamOnt

Anne Pasek
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I have a piece in this issue with Brian Sutherland looking at the different ways AI researchers have tried to tackle the climate impacts of their own research (+ how degrowthers are offering some neat critiques from the margins) sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...

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Laser@stefanlaser.bsky.social

Our special issue in Science and Technology Studies is live: “Across the Layers of Planetary Matter, Data Infrastructures, and Knowledge Production”. #sts This is an attempt to rethink the digitized world as a planetary entanglement. sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/issue/vie…

Anne Pasek
@apasek.bsky.social

I have a piece in this issue with Brian Sutherland looking at the different ways AI researchers have tried to tackle the climate impacts of their own research (+ how degrowthers are offering some neat critiques from the margins) sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...

sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fiMaking sure you're not a bot!
Laser@stefanlaser.bsky.social

Our special issue in Science and Technology Studies is live: “Across the Layers of Planetary Matter, Data Infrastructures, and Knowledge Production”. #sts This is an attempt to rethink the digitized world as a planetary entanglement. sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/issue/vie…

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jess m. ☕🍂
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Replying to @jametc.bsky.social

I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget

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John Michael McGrath
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

First Senakw doing compulsory YIMBYism on Vancouver, now this, nothing but respect for Indigenous power

Courtney Theriault@ctheriault.bsky.social

NEW: Saddle Lake Cree Nation calls Alberta trans health-care laws a violation of Treaty rights, announces path to work around the legislation

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yaoi gagarin
@mel.bzky.team

fucked up that nigel farage is a brexiteer and pro-crypto. makes it hard to criticize him, what with him being eurodivergent and a miner

Anne Pasek
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My take on the feds' new AI data centre framework: It's basically just a copy of Trump's rate payer protection pledge. It rebrands voluntary corporate pledges as if they were government mandates. They're not. They're pinkie promises, and they're already falling short. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

cbc.caWant to build a data centre in Canada? These are the federal government's new expectations | CBC NewsThe federal government has announced a new framework outlining key expectations for responsible data centre development, as politicians and companies grapple with public pushback to the infrastructure...
Anne Pasek
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We're looking to recruit a PhD student at Trent to do some experimental community engagements with UNFCCC climate docs. Are you a theatre kid at heart? An aspiring policy wonk? A climate comms nerd? We have funding for you--Come work with us! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comFunded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change PolicyFunded Position in Environmental Humanities Approaches to Global Climate Change Policy Two researchers at Trent University (Anne Pasek and Stephanie Rutherford) are recruiting a new PhD student for ...
Anne Pasek
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I want some to, gonzo journalism style, have a year where they exclusively publish and present at obvious scam venues. What would it be like to keynote at the Second International Conference on Biotechnology and Recycling? Especially if I know fuck all about that topic? Who else would be there?

Anne Pasek
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Because Doug Ford does not want me, specifically, to find happiness he held a press conference on the one day I was trying to take off for vacation in order to announce a extremely vague plan-to-make-a-plan about data centre regulations www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/13/n...

nationalobserver.comFord to municipalities opposing data centres: 'Either we do it, or Donald Trump's going to do it'Ontario's premier was in Guelph at a provincial data centre to announce the province’s framework for its Data Centre Playbook, which is open for public comment for 30 days.
Anne Pasek
@apasek.bsky.social

Reposting, in part, to appreciate this excellent robot costume, used to excellent effect at an Amazon community information session. The heroes we need.

Stand.earth@stand.earth

Nothing brings people together quite like a mutual rejection of Big Tech’s AI data centers. “Each overstep brings legions more into the big tent of data center resistance,” writes Todd Paglia, executive director of Stand.earth in his op-ed in @commondreams.org. #GreenSky

commondreams.orgBig Tech’s Masterclass on Manufacturing Dissent | Common Dreams​Big Tech has done the impossible—they’ve united people from across the political spectrum around a singular issue: against data centers and AI.
Anne Pasek
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Bragging

Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social

It took 4 years but we finally published a study breaking down the climate impacts of subsea telecommunication cables. Please clap. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comGreenhouse gas emissions of subsea telecommunications cables: A comparative study of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific systemsSubsea cables are critical for international data exchange. Yet lifecycle assessments (LCA) remain scarce, leaving a critical gap in understanding bot…
Anne Pasek
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Our findings help update and expand our account of the climate profiles of global telecommunications, with some neat policy implications for how to build a greener network. But I think the coolest part of the paper is how we got our data. In a small industry, where there's lot of privacy concerns/

Anne Pasek
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and no one wants their competitor to know their internal numbers, you can get an academic under NDA to be a 'secret keeper,' reviewing everyone's numbers, and then calculating an average across several companies that can be the public figure. It's a good way of building trust and transparency!