Jon Ippolito
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...
Great news for anyone preserving a collection: DPOE grants now fund training like my online digital preservation course on everything from checksums to DNA storage. A number of my past students have landed these grants; you can apply now for my class starting Jan 20. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Great news for anyone preserving a collection: DPOE grants now fund training like my online digital preservation course on everything from checksums to DNA storage. A number of my past students have landed these grants; you can apply now for my class starting Jan 20. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at saveabsentee.me.
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at saveabsentee.me.
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip. Confirmation of quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... Techradar on Veo 3.1: www.techradar.com/ai-platforms....
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip. Confirmation of quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... Techradar on Veo 3.1: www.techradar.com/ai-platforms....
Terrifying to think the 21st century is a quarter over! Even more so if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century.
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Terrifying to think the 21st century is a quarter over! Even more so if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century.
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will decide who can vote, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. Bipartisan info at ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.p...
October 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will decide who can vote, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. Bipartisan info at ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.p...
We've integrated lessons on AI's technology, ethics, and techniques into our online Digital Curation grad cert digitalcuration.umaine.edu to support jobs like this Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We've integrated lessons on AI's technology, ethics, and techniques into our online Digital Curation grad cert digitalcuration.umaine.edu to support jobs like this Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...
Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org
We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu
Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep. It teaches the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online digitalcuration.umaine.edu
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep. It teaches the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online digitalcuration.umaine.edu
Will AI rescue cultural heritage or replace it? In this IEEE video, learn how LLMs act as a compression algorithm for the Internet, enabling new forms of access while simultaneously threatening to replace ground truth with convincing facsimiles. nmdprojects.net/teleconferen...
August 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Will AI rescue cultural heritage or replace it? In this IEEE video, learn how LLMs act as a compression algorithm for the Internet, enabling new forms of access while simultaneously threatening to replace ground truth with convincing facsimiles. nmdprojects.net/teleconferen...
Need to talk to your students about AI ethics this fall? I've uploaded a course module for the AI IMPACT RISK framework, with interactive website, video, infographics, and quiz, that you can import into your own courseware like Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard.
ai-impact-risk.com
ai-impact-risk.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Need to talk to your students about AI ethics this fall? I've uploaded a course module for the AI IMPACT RISK framework, with interactive website, video, infographics, and quiz, that you can import into your own courseware like Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard.
ai-impact-risk.com
ai-impact-risk.com
In science, a model reveals universal laws. In AI, a “model” just matches patterns in data. Copernicus knew the difference but transformers don't, as reflected in this Harvard/MIT study blog.still-water.net/ptolemaic-th...
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In science, a model reveals universal laws. In AI, a “model” just matches patterns in data. Copernicus knew the difference but transformers don't, as reflected in this Harvard/MIT study blog.still-water.net/ptolemaic-th...
A propos, here's a slide from tomorrow's webinar that is a screenshot of Bluesky following Jim Acosta's interview with the AI version of a Parkland shooting victim
August 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A propos, here's a slide from tomorrow's webinar that is a screenshot of Bluesky following Jim Acosta's interview with the AI version of a Parkland shooting victim
"The textpocalypse would not be announced, but there would be signs" @michaelsocolow.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"The textpocalypse would not be announced, but there would be signs" @michaelsocolow.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself. www.asist.org/meetings-eve...
August 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself. www.asist.org/meetings-eve...
Excited to join the Instructional Design + AI special interest group in a fast-paced “Lightning Round” session Thursday 3pm EDT, where I'll show how to get students thinking about AI's environmental footprint by comparing its impacts to other activities osu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Excited to join the Instructional Design + AI special interest group in a fast-paced “Lightning Round” session Thursday 3pm EDT, where I'll show how to get students thinking about AI's environmental footprint by comparing its impacts to other activities osu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Need to put your collection in a database and get it online? This fall UMaine's offering Digital Collections and Exhibitions (DIG 540) online with Craig Dietrich digitalcuration.umaine.edu
July 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Need to put your collection in a database and get it online? This fall UMaine's offering Digital Collections and Exhibitions (DIG 540) online with Craig Dietrich digitalcuration.umaine.edu
PHP turned 30 last month. Why does this language that powers 75% of the web—including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress—have such staying power? Find out by registering for this fall's DIG 540, UMaine's online course in building cultural databases digitalcuration.umaine.edu
July 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
PHP turned 30 last month. Why does this language that powers 75% of the web—including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress—have such staying power? Find out by registering for this fall's DIG 540, UMaine's online course in building cultural databases digitalcuration.umaine.edu
Scary headlines like this mask what I call "talent debt": when companies cut juniors because seniors + AI seem faster, forgetting that AI doesn't train future leaders. You're not saving money, you're cutting off your pipeline. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
July 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Scary headlines like this mask what I call "talent debt": when companies cut juniors because seniors + AI seem faster, forgetting that AI doesn't train future leaders. You're not saving money, you're cutting off your pipeline. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Proud to be acknowledged for my scholarly contributions to Ghibli Studies
July 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Proud to be acknowledged for my scholarly contributions to Ghibli Studies
Participants in my #MyFest25 webinar with Tai Munro, "Sizing Up AI’s Environmental Footprint—for Your Students and Yourself," seemed to get a kick out of it. Recording at youtu.be/DiAPWxfoG_4
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Participants in my #MyFest25 webinar with Tai Munro, "Sizing Up AI’s Environmental Footprint—for Your Students and Yourself," seemed to get a kick out of it. Recording at youtu.be/DiAPWxfoG_4
You can adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local data centers to see how usage shifts. All data comes from peer-reviewed sources and industry reports, linked in a public Google Sheet. Feedback and additional sources welcome! 2/3
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
You can adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local data centers to see how usage shifts. All data comes from peer-reviewed sources and industry reports, linked in a public Google Sheet. Feedback and additional sources welcome! 2/3