jeremy parsons

jeremy parsons

@buzzard.bsky.social

turning and turning in the widening gyre, the desolate world of efficiency worshippers whose lust for power would reduce us all to dull unthinking human automatons

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@samhalpert.bsky.social

Replying to @rezekjoe.bsky.social

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

@buzzard.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... It’s amazing how much energy is used on computation and data storage for “artificial intelligence” projects, plus privacy violating commercial data collection.

bloomberg.comAI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power SystemsNew artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

@buzzard.bsky.social

Ending that bullshit would (1) be cheaper, (2) have more popular support, and (3) be more effective at curbing greenhouse gas emissions than the current elite campaign to replace internal combustion engine vehicles with battery electric vehicles.

@buzzard.bsky.social

wtf is goin on today, why so many posts in love with red light and speed enforcement cameras? y’all makin nazis on twitter look kinda chill by comparison

@buzzard.bsky.social

shit is fucked up and bullshit

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social

I’ve been lurking in car forums for the last few months and saw reports from drivers of General Motors cars that GM was selling their driving data to LexisNexis. It was resulting in their insurance going up. Can that be true, I thought. Reported it out. Yes. True. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...

nytimes.comAutomakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance CompaniesLexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.

@buzzard.bsky.social

every time i see or hear “no more number 2 pencils,” i think to myself “great, i always hated writing in dookie”

@buzzard.bsky.social

forced-induction and hybrid powerplants wtf

@buzzard.bsky.social

equating anti-zionism with antisemitism is a great way to increase antisemitism

@buzzard.bsky.social

peanut butter on a hard boiled egg kinda day

@buzzard.bsky.social

do not buy a new vehicle

foundation.mozilla.orgIt’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and SecurityAll 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

@buzzard.bsky.social

i like to think of junk email as junkie mail

@buzzard.bsky.social

it seems like “cognitive dissonance” is only used anymore to mean roughly the opposite of its original meaning. has the definition actually changed?

@buzzard.bsky.social

proponents of autonomous vehicles mostly talk as if the defining standard of good driving is merely navigating from one place to another without a collision. and i can’t imagine how anyone could be a good driver if that’s their whole notion of good driving.

@buzzard.bsky.social

so i’ve begun to think that anyone cheering the development of this technology 1) is a bad driver and 2) is unwilling to stop driving voluntarily and ask other people to drive them around

@buzzard.bsky.social

if a slow driver is fuckin up the passing lane, it’s sure to be someone in a nice car playing terrible music. every. single. time.

@buzzard.bsky.social

i once believed in things — even thought i knew some things. now people like that just bewilder me.

@buzzard.bsky.social

“snitches get stitches” is generous, dunno why y’all kooks take it so negative

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