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I think they've deleted the tag now, but one person tagged my post about technical vs. nontechnical language with 'good post obnoxiously written' and I just love that phrase. I could not possibly sum up what I try to do here better than that. I'm going to make it my blog title.
I want to be extremely clear that I am not dunking on this person or being sarcastic. I love that phrase. And they are not wrong.
What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
I just wrote down “Tengo eine Katze” and then put my head in my hands
The thing about data centers is that there's absolutely no reason to build them close to places where people live. The world needs some data centers (how many? that's more debatable). But data centers do not require a lot of staff to run. They require electricity and water and space, but they do not require very many people. No kind of building is a better candidate for the middle of fucking nowhere. So why are they trying to build them in peoples' backyards?
They're building them in places where infrastructure already exists for electricity, especially in the amounts they want. Most of those places are going to be near where people live, because the primary reason we generate electricity is to power people's homes, businesses, etc. It does actually make more sense to build a giant electricity-sucking data center as close as practical to where the electricity lives, and then just... divert the electricity away from its original destination (homes, businesses, etc.) and to the data center, than it does to build the data center in the middle of nowhere and then also build either the generators (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.) and/or the dedicated power lines necessary to connect it to the nearest site.
just to be clear: this is not a defense; frankly, given that what "build it in the middle of fucking nowhere instead of people's backyards" usually means is on reservations, or sacred sites, or protected land, there's really not a good place to put giant electricity-sucking super-domes at all. But the reason they're putting them near population centers is that that's cheaper than building heavy-use power lines all the way out to Some Other Place.
Yeah, that's almost certainly what it comes down to. Now, I do think there's still a way to do this. It's not true that most land far from where people live is reservations/sacred sites/protected land - though there is a lot of all that stuff too, North America is a pretty darn big place. I don't think there really is no alternative to building them in low-income neighbourhoods. Hell, at least in Canada, there are some projects being built on treaty land, but with the negotiated consent of the treaty holders (and the rights to some of the profit). Which is certainly a better deal than people in some low-income communities in the states are getting.
Many of these datacenters are already building their own power supplies on-site, which in principle makes them more portable. They still need data transmission lines and water supplies, but not necessarily to be that close to the local grid stations.
Given how much money is being spent on these things, I think requiring those who set them up to shell out for their own utilities infrastructure, instead of pirating off of the infrastructure people who actually pay taxes actually pay, is probably reasonable. There's a lot of comparisons being made between datacenters and the railways. And though many parts of this comparison are a little dubious, I do think that it's possible to make a railway-like infrastructure improvement off the back of them. If we can actually build water and electricity infrastructure that goes to really remote places... well, those places might benefit from that.
i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer
Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.
Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.
if anything you're reading makes reference to the cultural practices or social structures of "indigenous societies" you should mentally annotate it with "WHICH ONES???" in bright red marker
The thing about data centers is that there's absolutely no reason to build them close to places where people live. The world needs some data centers (how many? that's more debatable). But data centers do not require a lot of staff to run. They require electricity and water and space, but they do not require very many people. No kind of building is a better candidate for the middle of fucking nowhere. So why are they trying to build them in peoples' backyards?
“The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman’s consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite.”
— Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.”
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I recognize the value of audio guides in tourist sites/museums. I even recognize the value of phone-based audio guides, since they make it cheaper and easier for a museum to have a large variety of languages. But if you a) cut information from signage to put on an audio guide or b) let people use the damn things WITHOUT HEADPHONES I will not be best pleased.
First, it goes without saying that cutting info from non-audio media is not great for anyone who is hearing impaired. And that's much more important than my petty grievances.
But I still have my petty grievances. And they are that I can't read the damn sign if I can hear 3 versions of the same audio guide playing VERY LOUD right next to me.
I recognize the value of audio guides in tourist sites/museums. I even recognize the value of phone-based audio guides, since they make it cheaper and easier for a museum to have a large variety of languages. But if you a) cut information from signage to put on an audio guide or b) let people use the damn things WITHOUT HEADPHONES I will not be best pleased.
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does anyone else think it's weird that ascribing personality traits to hair colours is fine when it's cats.
A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.
You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation. "I signed the Alberta independence petition" because "Canada is not a great country anymore," an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called Alberta Independence that promotes the movement and has more than 100,000 members. In another post, Aqila said she was harassed and had rocks thrown at her as she canvassed for petition signatures. The account's posts have generated thousands of reactions, comments and shares in recent months as the issue heated up.
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The problem with a lot of online discourse about literacy (in North America) is that a lot of people do not or cannot differentiate the claim 'there has been a recent non-trivial dip in (US) literacy rates, which is concerning because otherwise literacy has been increasing for as long as we've been able to measure it' and the claim 'literacy is at a historic low'. Those are not even vaguely the same thing! Only one of them is true!
Something bad is happening with literacy now. We need to do something about it. That does not mean that current literacy is worse than it was in the '50s. We can be concerned about the present without inventing an idealized past to compare it to.
And if it doesn't seem like that's the case - if it seems to you that people in general are way less literate than they were in the '70s, say - consider that until very recently, unless a person with no or low literacy was within earshot of you or a news reporter, they would have no way to communicate with you at all.
The problem with a lot of online discourse about literacy (in North America) is that a lot of people do not or cannot differentiate the claim 'there has been a recent non-trivial dip in (US) literacy rates, which is concerning because otherwise literacy has been increasing for as long as we've been able to measure it' and the claim 'literacy is at a historic low'. Those are not even vaguely the same thing! Only one of them is true!
Something bad is happening with literacy now. We need to do something about it. That does not mean that current literacy is worse than it was in the '50s. We can be concerned about the present without inventing an idealized past to compare it to.
no matter how little you think you know about history you shouldn’t beat yourself up over it because there is always someone who knows less than you and is more confident about it. someone once said that bridgerton was medieval to me
another person also thought that the middle ages were the period in between wwi and wwii so you should always be proud of yourself for having any sort of knowledge about the medieval period. i’m proud of you for not thinking fdr was an important medieval figure.
