Agnes Adler, MSc
@agnesadler.bsky.social
Climate, gender, social justice
If Gen AI has no haters, I am dead. UofM and UC Davis alumnus. Born at 360 ppm CO2. Twitter refugee. Lighthouse enthusiast
She/her
If Gen AI has no haters, I am dead. UofM and UC Davis alumnus. Born at 360 ppm CO2. Twitter refugee. Lighthouse enthusiast
She/her
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Ya there’s a good article based on research from @hannahdaly.ie on that m.independent.ie/irish-news/d....
Data centres to scupper climate targets as they eat up all new renewable electricity, research finds
Data centres will make it impossible for Ireland to meet its climate and clean-energy commitments if their continued growth is not halted, a research paper has shown.
m.independent.ie
March 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Ya there’s a good article based on research from @hannahdaly.ie on that m.independent.ie/irish-news/d....
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
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NEW: In California, data center builders are erecting DIESEL generators to backstop AI computing.
Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...
Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...
As California AI Data Centers Grow, So Does Dirty Energy
Companies are using a shortcut to build ever larger centers that use diesel generators as an emergency power source.
capitalandmain.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW: In California, data center builders are erecting DIESEL generators to backstop AI computing.
Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...
Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...
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Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
January 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us
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“Using generative AI for lesson plans, or feedback, or course management is, ultimately, not a route toward making individual faculty more productive and effective but is instead a direct path to obviating the human role in teaching.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
Great ready for faculty bot-ification
If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.
www.insidehighered.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“Using generative AI for lesson plans, or feedback, or course management is, ultimately, not a route toward making individual faculty more productive and effective but is instead a direct path to obviating the human role in teaching.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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Everything about Zuckerberg makes sense when you remember he started his product and ascent with a misogynistic website to rank girls’ hotness
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Everything about Zuckerberg makes sense when you remember he started his product and ascent with a misogynistic website to rank girls’ hotness
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It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
www.teenvogue.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.
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“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.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“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.”
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Study of Australian income data (2001-2013) finds longer parental leave is associated with lower post-leave income for women in men-dominated occupations but not in women-dominated or gender-neutral fields.
theconversation.com/parental-lea...
theconversation.com/parental-lea...
Parental leave paradox: Why women who take longer leaves face career penalties in men-dominated fields
Women who take longer parental leaves in men-dominated industries may face penalties, including lower pay and limited promotion opportunities.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Study of Australian income data (2001-2013) finds longer parental leave is associated with lower post-leave income for women in men-dominated occupations but not in women-dominated or gender-neutral fields.
theconversation.com/parental-lea...
theconversation.com/parental-lea...
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Zuck out there exploring new frontiers in standpoint epistemology
According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective
January 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Zuck out there exploring new frontiers in standpoint epistemology
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"we should raise tariffs on all goods to insane levels" is one of Trump's only consistent econ policies, but everyone with basic knowledge knows that's a moronic idea, which leads to Trump staffers repeatedly sanewashing it, only for Trump to go "no I want the insane version"
January 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"we should raise tariffs on all goods to insane levels" is one of Trump's only consistent econ policies, but everyone with basic knowledge knows that's a moronic idea, which leads to Trump staffers repeatedly sanewashing it, only for Trump to go "no I want the insane version"
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Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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In 2020, only 3.6% of the world’s population lived outside their country of birth. People only leave their homes when they're desperate.
If conservatives really care about immigration, they would focus on stopping climate change. Because that's going to cause refugee numbers to skyrocket.
If conservatives really care about immigration, they would focus on stopping climate change. Because that's going to cause refugee numbers to skyrocket.
January 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
In 2020, only 3.6% of the world’s population lived outside their country of birth. People only leave their homes when they're desperate.
If conservatives really care about immigration, they would focus on stopping climate change. Because that's going to cause refugee numbers to skyrocket.
If conservatives really care about immigration, they would focus on stopping climate change. Because that's going to cause refugee numbers to skyrocket.
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Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
January 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021:
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
Meta = $0
Tim Cook = $0
Sam Altman = $0
Google = $200,000
Amazon = $200,000
Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025:
Meta = $1,000,000
Tim Cook = $1,000,000
Sam Altman = $1,000,000
Google = $1,000,000
Amazon = $1,000,000
The oligarchy is here.
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Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
March 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
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Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?
January 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?
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This is….I don’t have words.
The city of New Orleans uses the Mississippi River as drinking water. Our current governor begged the state to remove funding from the city of New Orleans to fix the pumps and the decaying sewage and water system UNTIL the DA agrees to prosecute women for abortions. www.essence.com/news/louisia...
December 31, 2024 at 6:14 PM
This is….I don’t have words.
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I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.
Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling
Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling
Trump’s former FCC chair took a victory lap.
buff.ly
January 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.
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MN Dept. of Labor is requiring Sanford Health to educate pregnant *patients* about their worker rights after finding the health system violated state labor law by cutting one of its pregnant workers hours and then firing her while she was on parental leave www.dli.mn.gov/news/sanford...
Sanford to pay back-wages, damages, penalties after DLI finds willful violations of the Women’s Economic Security Act | Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
State investigation found Sanford cut an employee’s hours due to pregnancy and fired her after she requested 12 weeks of parental leave; health system agrees to statewide training for employees
www.dli.mn.gov
January 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
MN Dept. of Labor is requiring Sanford Health to educate pregnant *patients* about their worker rights after finding the health system violated state labor law by cutting one of its pregnant workers hours and then firing her while she was on parental leave www.dli.mn.gov/news/sanford...
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Why we fund basic research
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
December 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Why we fund basic research
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How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad?
a guy wanted to get richer
What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer
Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer
a guy wanted to get richer
What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer
Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer
January 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad?
a guy wanted to get richer
What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer
Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer
a guy wanted to get richer
What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer
Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer
Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer