Rendezvoux
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Rendezvoux is a Chicago based community for Product, UX and Experience Designers
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As of 2015, the entire city of Atlanta was projected to have a water footprint of ~327 billion gallons per year by 2050 (👇🏾)
Current "AI" trends project an industry-wide water footprint of ~489 bgal/year by 2030.
Yes some other stuff uses more. That's bad too. But we're talking about this right now
Current "AI" trends project an industry-wide water footprint of ~489 bgal/year by 2030.
Yes some other stuff uses more. That's bad too. But we're talking about this right now
Natural Resources - Impact and Updates - ARC
Securing a Sustainable Future for Metro Atlanta As metro Atlanta’s population continues to grow, protecting our natural environment becomes even more important to securing a healthy and sustainable fu...
atlantaregional.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
As of 2015, the entire city of Atlanta was projected to have a water footprint of ~327 billion gallons per year by 2050 (👇🏾)
Current "AI" trends project an industry-wide water footprint of ~489 bgal/year by 2030.
Yes some other stuff uses more. That's bad too. But we're talking about this right now
Current "AI" trends project an industry-wide water footprint of ~489 bgal/year by 2030.
Yes some other stuff uses more. That's bad too. But we're talking about this right now
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I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t
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And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"
The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And, again, maybe the immediate answer here isn't "train on more disabled users' faces!" but rather perhaps stopping and thinking "hey maybe a sociotechnical paradigm that is literally predicated on and made of unending surveillance and a demand for certain 'right kinds' of bodies is bad actually 🤔"