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David Villalvazo
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Cinesonic Thinking / Ph.D. Candidate AudioVisual Research + Documentary Arts: Temple University / Associate Professor: Universidad de Guadalajara.
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AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25d
A few important points here

- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false

- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE

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Data center investment is growing quickly Construction spending on data centers (millions of dollars) SAL,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 ChatGPT launch 21,000 15,000 10200 1,000 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jun 18 Jan 20 Jan 22 J24 In just three years, spending on data centers in the US has gone from $13.8 billion to $41.2 billion per year. Construction spending on data centers has grown by 200% since the launch of ChatGPT. rising data centre forecasts data center growth Data centers are being built very, very quickly Satellite images of OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas • A year ago, Stargate was a plot of dirt in Texas. Today it is home to 100k Nvidia chips using 200 MW. • In another year, the data center will use 1.2 GW of power. • For reference, El Paso Electric has a peak load of 2.4 GW and serves 465,000 customers.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Over the moon about this comic from my brilliant student @lizardshands.bsky.social - "I think of Batman like a coworker from a different department..." An absolutely delightful & thoughtful narrative with a perfect ending! So pleased and blown away!
two pages from a comic about Batman as co-worker. Text reads" I think of Batman like a man on my commute. I don't know him. I don't know where he goes. But I notice when he isn't on the bus in the morning." "I think of Batman like a coworker from a different department. I know his name. And I think he knows mine too... but I can't be sure." More from this comic, text "Not someone I talk to. Not someone I know personal things about. But when we have a break at the same time I leave my headphones out in case that changes." "I think of Batman like a friend of a friend. Someone I know by proxy. If someone asked Do you know him? I'd pause a moment to think ...No?" final page from this comic, text reads: "But maybe at some point if our friend leaves the room we will realize that we both like the song that is playing or that we both watch the same show. And maybe for that moment I Do know Batman."
December 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."

A winter walk with Thoreau
A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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December 7, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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How to cope with an increasingly turbulent world?

Currently, I'm cuddling with Mabel & avoiding reality entirely.
December 2, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
November 17, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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New Yorker cover
graduates accept degrees with zipties behind their back, escorted by police
May 10, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Worldwide, the frequency of earthquakes has remained largely unchanged over decades. On average, there are about 1,500 quakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher every year. Here’s how earthquakes are measured.
Here’s how earthquakes are measured.
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April 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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March 13, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Why drawing needs to be a curriculum essential
Drawing has creative, expressive and educational value; it remains fundamental to translating and analysing the world
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March 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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exciting news folks, my new cybertruck just got delivered
large silver dumpster shaped like a barn with a black top
March 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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A little disappointed we haven't been using the term "Generative Large Language Models" more often, since it leads to the satisfying acronym of GLLM—which we'd naturally pronounce as "Golem."

(And yeah yeah... Tolkien's "Gollum" isn't far off the mark either.)
Golem - Wikipedia
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February 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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This is signal. Not noise.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Feb 8
The exceptional warmth that first enveloped the planet last summer is continuing strong into 2024: Last month clocked in as the hottest January ever measured, the EU climate monitor announced. nyti.ms/495nOtJ
A line graph shows daily sea surface temperatures. On February 3, 2024, the temperature measured 69.9 degrees Fahrenheit, with previous records before that. Source: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.
February 8, 2024 at 9:23 PM