David J. O'Brien
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Author, Poet, Ecologist, Teacher. Irishman in Pamplona.
Two kids, two cats, one lizard, many fish.
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Two kids, two cats, one lizard, many fish.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00M60M6Y0
https://davidjmobrien.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/DavidJMOBrien/
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
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There's a secret code that service workers use with other service workers to get great service and free shit and it's making eye contact and treating people with respect.
December 2, 2024 at 5:02 PM
There's a secret code that service workers use with other service workers to get great service and free shit and it's making eye contact and treating people with respect.
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Oh, but here's a great Nature write-up that I used as a source on the Three Mile Island issue. Again, it's not easy to fit big conversations into tweets, but the climate issues we face require a serious reckoning with surging energy demands to prop up bubble economies like generative AI. Cheers!
Nuclear power for AI: what it will take to reopen Three Mile Island safely
As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at the notorious power station, Nature talks to nuclear specialists about the unprecedented process.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Oh, but here's a great Nature write-up that I used as a source on the Three Mile Island issue. Again, it's not easy to fit big conversations into tweets, but the climate issues we face require a serious reckoning with surging energy demands to prop up bubble economies like generative AI. Cheers!
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I highly recommend the episode, along with legacy media coverage of massive accounting issues around data centre emissions (e.g., this piece by the Guardian). I wrote on the technical challenges (paired with PR hype cycle) around the Three Mile resurrection project, too, but that's behind paywall.
Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
www.google.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I highly recommend the episode, along with legacy media coverage of massive accounting issues around data centre emissions (e.g., this piece by the Guardian). I wrote on the technical challenges (paired with PR hype cycle) around the Three Mile resurrection project, too, but that's behind paywall.
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4. You can read more about it here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Environmental grants promised to farmers in England frozen
Scheme to fund activities such as hedge-planting paused owing to budget constraints, sources say
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:36 PM
4. You can read more about it here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I love this Joelle Taylor poem that takes the form of a school report
November 16, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I love this Joelle Taylor poem that takes the form of a school report
wow. just wow.
November 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
wow. just wow.