Christine Moreau
@christinemoreau.bsky.social
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As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.
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"Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America"
May 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America"
Barak: 'blurred line between scholarship and activism has led to erosion of trust in the uni'
The real 'blurred line' is between scholarship and market interest/professionalization of knowledge. When and why did scholarship shift to preparing students for a job market over inquiry/critical thought?
The real 'blurred line' is between scholarship and market interest/professionalization of knowledge. When and why did scholarship shift to preparing students for a job market over inquiry/critical thought?
Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Barak: 'blurred line between scholarship and activism has led to erosion of trust in the uni'
The real 'blurred line' is between scholarship and market interest/professionalization of knowledge. When and why did scholarship shift to preparing students for a job market over inquiry/critical thought?
The real 'blurred line' is between scholarship and market interest/professionalization of knowledge. When and why did scholarship shift to preparing students for a job market over inquiry/critical thought?
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"I despise any language that argues something is inevitable. It strips the public of its agency—it attempts to whittle away our ability to self-determine, to say what happens and ought to happen in our communities, our schools, and our lives."
May 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"I despise any language that argues something is inevitable. It strips the public of its agency—it attempts to whittle away our ability to self-determine, to say what happens and ought to happen in our communities, our schools, and our lives."
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Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
May 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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"An institution’s decisions about its money, its partnerships, and its treatment of people are inherently political statements".
nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
Palestine and the moral bankruptcy of universities
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
nbmediacoop.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"An institution’s decisions about its money, its partnerships, and its treatment of people are inherently political statements".
nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
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BC Hydro intends to give the Site C dam and reservoir permanent Indigenous names, a plan called inappropriate by the chief of a First Nation whose traditional territory was flooded by it VIA @sarahkcox.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-g...
Site C dam to get Indigenous name after flooding Treaty 8 territory| The Narwhal
BC Hydro plans to give the Site C dam an Indigenous name but chief of an affected First Nation says it’s inappropriate
thenarwhal.ca
November 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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