Eilish Spear

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

It’s crazy enough to think this, but to say it in public???? ON TAPE?????

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You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.

new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?

i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:

The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...

"It’s​ a jarring experience to read these three fine books on waste at a time when all the talk is of ‘abundance’...But here’s the thing: the US, of all places, doesn’t need more." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here's what the remediation for environmental issues may look like at Burnham Yard The historic railyard likely contains subsurface contamination from decades of industrial use that will need to be addressed before the planned stadium.

Thanks @spencersoicher.bsky.social @nexton9news.bsky.social for a story on the importance of environmental contamination, site clean-up and of course, microbes!🦠 🦠

www.9news.com/article/spor...

The Aurora Borealis over Castle Rock, Golden, CO—outstanding!

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Wolf Alice: The Clearing Read Samir Chadha’s review of the album.

Reviewed the new Wolf Alice album for @pitchfork.com!
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Opinion | You Are Contaminated

“The world is inside us, now. What are we going to do about it?” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

it’s true

emma is HERE