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stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal
Using a deep learning model to generate an image uses the same amount of electricity as a computer does in two minutes, and it produces about as much pollution as driving a car six metres. If you're going to criticise the artificial intelligence economic bubble then I'm begging you to pick something sensible to point at.
hate to be that guy but do you have a source 4 this?
Never apologise for seeking confirmation.
Generating one thousand images via deep learning requires 2.907 kWh of electricity¹.
Computer power supplies vary, but my low-end laptop needs 45 W and my high-end desktop needs 450 W.
Generating one kWh of electricity produces 0.123 kg of carbon dioxide².
Burning one litre of petrol produces 2.08 kg of CO₂³.
An average car burns 5.4 litres of petrol per 100km (≈52.6 mpg)⁴.
Generating one image at 45 W would take 233 seconds⁵ (or 23 seconds at 450 W), which averages out to 2 minutes and 8 seconds.
This electricity would require 0.36 g⁶ of CO₂ to produce. The average car produces 0.11 g⁷ of CO₂ per metre, so this is equivalent to driving 3.3 m.
Sadly, nuclear won't save us here. In a stunning example of induced demand, Microsoft agreed to buy Three Mile Island's entire generating capacity if the owners start it up again - all 819 megawatt-hours of it.
Three Mile Island has two reactors. Unit 1 was idled in 2019, and is being restarted. Unit 2 melted down in 1979, and remains the worst private sector nuclear disaster in US history.
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just because AI uses the same amount as a car or a high end PC doesn't mean it should get a pass. for one thing people are using those services a lot more frequently than the majority of cars and PC's are used, for another thing YES cars and PC's should be more eco friendly. but comparing high end pc's of which there are far less than the number of cars in the world and even the number of cars compared to the number of prompts pales in comparison, a conservative estimate would put the number of images generated per day in the multi millions, also generally the wattage you see on your electronics is a per hour amount
hey. sorry. you're telling me people use AI art more than they...drive cars? you're telling me the energy usage and pollution output of AI art is... more than that of.. .cars? Cars. Cars? Motorized vehicles. Cars. Right? Am I getting that right? You think AI art is more commonly used than,. Cars? CARS? Cars. You think AI art is a bigger concern than...... Cars?
Hey so remember how grocery prices suddenly jackknifed during lockdown and never went back down?
Well turns out the companies would have done that shit either way and had been steadily price-fixing for the last decade!
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson just announced more than $40 million in court-ordained Fuck You money from massive swaths of food production companies are to be paid out to households earning at or below 175% of the federal poverty level ($25.5k for 1 person, $34.5k for 2 people households) before Dec 31st of this year. Happy Holidays.
"The bottom line here is that my legal team took on two large corporate price-fixing conspiracies that increased the cost for groceries for Washington families. We've prevailed, and as a result, we are sending checks to over 400,000 Washington households."
Cannot stress enough the extent of the conspiracies he's talking about here. 15 out of the total 19 chicken producers got nailed in this lawsuit. Not the total number of conspirators, mind, just the ones who left enough evidence for the AG to kick their ass in so expedient a manner. Make no mistake, all 19 were in on it. The court case against the rest of them has been delayed until October of next year, though. None of them are making it out unscathed.
Tuna didn't escape antitrust horseshit either, because the CEOs of Starkist, Chicken of the Sea, and Bumblebee Tuna had a fucking group chat where they complained that the price of tuna was "too low" and they agreed to artificially inflate the price.
“What’s so maddening about the conduct of these companies is the reason that they engaged in this price-fixing conspiracy was greed. They wanted to make money."
So anyway the AG who nailed their asses to the wall and continues to do so is running for governor. If you live in Washington, could be worth your vote when primary season rolls around.
You know, if you don't live in Washington state... think about calling YOUR state attorney general and asking what they intend to do about that information. Are they going to protect citizens in your state? If you, like me, think that watching our pay trickle away in the checkout line is a shit deal... Maybe harass your reps and AGs about it.
The thing is, the more states react to the same information, the more likely that they'll succeed. Governing is no longer happening in federal Congress, so if your state chooses to take action on behalf of its citizens.... well, it's not like it's going to be easily stopped. Class action law is still law. The choices made by the prosecution determine what law is law and what law is simply a hollow effigy of lies. Who keeps the strong accountable to the law?
So I am writing to my state AG. I may also write to members of Congress, on the off chance that there is an avenue of restitution there as well. I want to know: if they can get a breath of refresher cash from their government trying to chase down some money, can I get some from mine? Because fuck! That'd be nice!
“we can’t be together, my love. for i am cursed to be a basketball dracula forever” said basketball dracula as he leapt into a solemn slam dunk from half court. his lover cried immediately
wow i haven’t thought about basketball dracula in forever. glad you’re all still getting laughs out of this
this is an extremely 2013 post, is the thing. just as you can find cycles in music and fashion, you can see the same kind of loops in humor. there are people out there who’ve had 2013 ass tumblr posts noodling around in their head for years and are committing to their own comedy now, just as i had comedy from 00s forums and websites like Progressive Boink and 90s late night tv like Space Ghost Coast To Coast vibrating in my head and then poured out into the open in my own form. all comedy is, in some small, insignificant yet personally valuable form, the weight of history itself pressing forwards; creating an endless stack of layers that can be hard to see if you aren’t explicitly looking for it or consciously documenting it the entire time.
this is how you get ‘basketball dracula’ feeling like a 2024 post even though i made it in 2013, and also how you get stuff like me making riffs on abbot and costello’s “who’s on first” elsewhere to this very day. we are all collectively participants in the history of comedy, even if unknowingly so. this is something i have thought about a lot, to a truly unnecessary degree, but it’s a small thing that feels like a big thing to me, at least personally. that even through dumb jokes, in some small fashion, i am connecting with the past, the present, and the future, akin to how gravity connects all of us in some imperceptible way.
a stupid joke with enough punch enters through the waves of time and the brainwaves of people within it, building on it, modifying it, being inspired by it and making comedy of their own from it. like a radio message that echoes through the depths of the universe, but passing through time more than space. i will eventually be forgotten, and one day, ‘basketball dracula’ itself will be too. but the influence of this joke lingers, inspiring other’s jokes - even inspiration built out of hatred of my jokes! - to contribute to the collective history of comedy, a wave that never stops rolling forward. it delights me to know that i, and others, are all part of this constant work in progress of comedy.
most likely my best known joke is my riff on the pagliacci format. it is inpsired, like many are, as a riff on the 'Pagliacci’ bit from Rorschach in Watchmen. but that bit in Watchmen is actually predated by many stories of the famous clown Joseph Grimaldi - close with writers like Charles Dickens and Lord Byron, no less - who had the same “but doctor,” bleak joke applied to him. jokes build on jokes build on jokes, reverberating through history and the people within it, creating influences on our own humor that we eventually aren’t even cognizant of. the past lives through to the present all within the history of a stupid joke.
this is all extremely overwrought and over the top to drag out of a dumbass “basketball dracula” joke, yes. but as i said, this is something i think about a lot, and i think about it especially with the stupidest jokes, instead of the big, 'meaningful’ ones.
anyway, again: glad you are all still getting laughs out of “basketball dracula” to this day. i can only wonder what trails of influence my stupid jokes will have on other people’s comedy, and the influence they in turn will have on other people’s comedy, in another 11 years.
no, but the guy who coined surf dracula (topherflorence/docfuture, perhaps better known for “ASMR Role Play: Caring and Supportive Funky Kong Gives You A Ride Home From The Airport” among other video projects) and i do occasionally riff back and forth a bunch on other stuff for the hell of it
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
The Newest Super Mario Bros game has been announced for Nintendo Shitcube
you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.
i am absolutely mesmerized by shrek 1 on xbox what on earth is this energy it's putrid
Thinking about when CG was used exactly one time in the entirety of spongebobs pre-movie 3 season run
Like, they could’ve easily just had him instantaneously burst through the wall and get roughly the same joke across, but the fact the writers wanted him to slowly push through the wall like that SO BADLY that they went out of their way to implement the cg effect to do so is so fucking funny to me fndmmsmsms
"boys will be boys" wrong: force fem
I want the world to change in a fun way. "Only the copyright owner can make a real iteration in a series." If that rule was eliminated then fan games would be treated as equally 'real' as 'real games' with the same weight of importance. News headlines about a game where you can play as 'Vampire Birdo'. A distant cousin's instincts about game design matter as much as a skilled designer with many years of experience working for a company that has made millions of dollars in sales -- maybe 'wrong', but it's fun. So why not? Because we could no longer answer the question, "who is really 'Mario' if anyone can make a Mario game?" Then he becomes kind of a folktale in society. I'd like that. If someone gets scared at a violent interpretation, you could explain that Mario's cruelty or kindness is dependent on the heart of the game's creator, or perhaps he was just in a violent world at the time. Similarly, at the movie theatre, I would like to see someone's home videos put on the big screen -- independent stop-motion Lego movie, maybe.
on the wikipedia page for puppy and they got this narration that sounds kinda professor oak-esque but a bit deeper. this is entertaining me for some reason
it sounds like a half life scientist reading the wikipedia page
anon asking three thousand communist bloggers "are hazbin hotel creative team members artistic kulaks" and then shutting down the power grid in my city for an hour
call me nintendo in the late 90s the way my 64DDs flop
