River 🏳️‍⚧️
riverlillies.bsky.social
River 🏳️‍⚧️
@riverlillies.bsky.social
🇨🇦 / 23 year old trans woman, interested in politics, urbanism, tech, culture, poetry/writing, and journalism. She/They. Free Palestine. Queer Socialist
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"AI server cooling consumes significant water, with data centers using cooling towers and air mechanisms to dissipate heat, causing up to

* 9 liters of water to evaporate per kWh of energy used"*

Reminder: Generative A.I. MUST DIE for us to survive the climate crisis. NO EXCEPTIONS.
AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
With the rise of generative AI, companies have significantly raised their water usage, sparking concerns about the sustainability of such practices.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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F it, here's the email addresses of senior Meta execs. If they want to greenlight pogroms against us, they should at least hear from us.

Lindsay Elin, VP Public policy lindsaye@meta.com

Roy Austin, VP Civil Rights royaustin@meta.com

Cynthia Deitle, General Counsel cmdeitle@meta.com
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Good evening y’all, been busy lately but just wanted to say hi, I hope y’all had a great holiday season and have a happy new year! 😁
December 29, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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December 27, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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@aaron.bsky.team i see we're still mutuals so i just want to say, me and the other trans users feel unsafe with jesse singal allowed to roam free on here. please consider how he released a minor's medical records without consent.
December 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Sorry but your thoughts and prayers are out of network
December 5, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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After tumblr died but before it was declared dead*, the site became mostly a Pig Wrestling** platform.

* Tumblr is actually very much alive and quite cool now.
** As in the old adage, Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig likes it.

Anyway, twitter has entered its Pig Wrestling Era.
December 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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If you new to Bluesky, its important to like/share posts on here cause that helps keep the community on here active. Especially considering there isn't really algorithm on here that always recommends your posts to others. Much appreciated to those who already do.
December 2, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Pam Bondi refused to return their dog to a family of Katrina victims after she "adopted" their dog. She fought them in court for 16 months before she gave the dog back. Disqualifying. Character counts. www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-...
RNC speaker Pam Bondi was once in a 16-month custody battle over a dog with Hurricane Katrina victims
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to return a St. Bernard she adopted from a rescue shelter to the family it belonged to.
www.businessinsider.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 1, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Louvre Abu Dhabi (2017) by Jean Nouvel
December 1, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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If appointed that would put another convicted felon in the administration. I think it's important to attach the phrase "convicted felon" to all these people. Trump, Dinesh D'souza, Kushner sr, Mike Flynn, etc, etc, etc. "Convicted Felon" should precede their names the way "Dr." and "Professor"
November 30, 2024 at 7:49 PM