I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still hour Is come of the sea tumbling in harness And I must enter again the round Zion of the water bead And the synagogue of the ear of corn Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound Or sow my salt seed In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn The majesty and burning of the child's death. I shall not murder The mankind of her going with a grave truth Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath With any further Elegy of innocence and youth. Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, Robed in the long friends, The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother, Secret by the unmourning water Of the riding Thames. After the first death, there is no other.
Dylan Thomas
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
Free public transit for all means birds too.
RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline
02 NOT ALL AI IS EQUAL A spam filter and GPT are not the same problem ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 A bicycle and a jumbo jet both get you places. But comparing their "fuel use" as if they're the same thing would be ridiculous. L.1801 recognises that Al comes in four very different types and their environmental footprints are not even close to each other. Before measuring anything, the standard requires you to classify what kind of Al you are assessing. Section 6.3 defines four technology types with fundamentally different hardware, data, and energy demands. This classification is the starting point of every L.1801 assessment. TYPE 01 Expert Systems Medical diagnosis, fraud detection, energy optimisation-rule-based, human-defined logic Energy Data TYPE 02 Machine Learning Email filtering, product recommendations - learns from statistical patterns in data Energy Data TYPE 03 Deep Learning Image recognition, CNNs, RNNs-multiple layers of neural networks Energy Data Hardware: CPU + GPU TYPE 04 Highest Impact Generative Al LLMs, image/video generation, multi-modal models - generating new content at scale Energy Data Hardware: Significant GPUs and/or TPUs Hardware: CPU only Hardware: CPU + GPU Key insight: The standard explicitly classifies GenAl as "comparatively high" in both energy and hardware demands - a level above all other Al types. When people debate "Al's environmental impact," they are mostly talking about Type 04.
03 THE FOUNDATION Count the whole story, not just the ending ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 Before you say your toy is eco-friendly, you have to count the mine where the metals came from, the factory that built it, the truck that shipped it, and what happens when you throw it away. Not just whether the box is recyclable. L.1801 is built on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) the internationally recognised methodology for environmental accounting, standardised in ITU-T L.1410. The core principle: measure the full life of the system, from raw material extraction to end-of-life treatment. For Al that means four stages. Click each stage below to see what the standard actually requires you to count. ↓ Click any stage to expand its data requirements STAGE 01 STAGE 02 STAGE 03 STAGE 04 Make the Hardware Before training begins Build & Train The expensive phase Run It Daily Inference & operation Retire It Decommission & e-waste Key insight: Most Al companies today report only Stage 3 - inference electricity. The standard requires all four stages. Stages 1 and 4 in particular are almost universally missing from current Al environmental disclosures.
07- WHAT WE MEASURE It's not just about carbon ★EXPLAIN IT LIKE I'M 5 A car isn't bad for just one reason. It burns petrol, needs metal to build, uses water in its engine, and takes up space. Al is the same. Measuring only carbon is like judging a car only by how loud it is - you're missing most of the picture. L.1801 mandates one impact category and recommends four more. In practice, the recommended categories are likely to be skipped by most organisations unless required by regulation. Click any card to see what it measures and why it matters. MANDATORY RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED Climate Change GHG emissions across full life cycle Water Use Cooling systems + energy generation Minerals & Metals Rare earth elements for hardware Fossil Fuels Energy source matters enormously Biodiversity The one almost nobody measures yet ← Key insight: Only carbon is mandatory. Water, minerals, fossil fuels, and biodiversity are all optional. This means most organisations will report carbon and stop there - which the standard is designed to evolve beyond as measurement methodologies mature and regulation catches up. STANDARD Section 8.1.4 + 8.1.6-LCIA categories and reporting requirements
"ITU-T L.1801 is the world's first standard for measuring how much AI systems actually cost the planet — from GPU mining to your last query. This is what it means, layer by layer"
Very useful new standard from the ITU with some VERY useful explanations
l1801framework.netlify.app
In her forthcoming book, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social "writes to make you fall in love with the Bundists — with their charm, their surety, their steadfastness, their loquaciousness — but more so to make you fall in love with their ideas."
A new review by @moiralavelle.bsky.social
ICE is violently detaining and arresting people in SE Mi- this situation included a black ICE officer helping his white coworkers beat and mace a black US citizen.
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Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:
Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
Thorough roundup by @joshnathankazis.bsky.social, includes the ADL's tying the war to Judaism itself while also insinuating it was at Saudi Arabia behest:
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying.
New from me @therealnews.com
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what we permit the state to do to its supposed enemies, to foreigners, to criminals, is what we permit the state to do to any of us
hot take: if you're an American, this is not a nuanced issue. you do not need to "listen to Iranian voices" here. you need to tell your leaders to stop bombing a country and killing people. that's literally it.
The people who lived through 9/11 and Iraq are approaching their 40s-50s and they’re still treated like immature kids who aren’t worth listening to. We were right motherfuckers, and we’re right to say it
Cass Sunstein was pushing prediction markets as a fairer alternative to deliberation (e.g. committees, juries) back in 2008. (This and "nudging" in lieu of policy.) The quant asshole revolution of the Obama era laid the groundwork for the gambling, scams, and bullshit vibes paradigm of today.
ai is a rhetorical technology.
when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission
extremely funny when people straight up admit they wouldn’t mind if kamala harris did the same exact shit only with a little more decorum
An old time-y illustration of a Narcissus.
Today is Primidi the 11th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
Today we celebrate narcissus. #JacobinDay
More information on narcissus
Danny devito in always sunny stating "you would have to be a real low life piece of shit to be proud to be an American."
I did some great and insightful interviews on Iran today:
- Veteran reporter Elijah Magnier on the play by play
- Organizer Layan Sima Fuleihan on antiwar protests
- Drop Site News’s Ryan Grim on the War powers resolution and Democratic cowardice/complicity
www.youtube.com/live/Vkxk0PU...
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.
We were founded as Iraq Veterans Against the War over the devastation we saw with our own eyes when Bush claimed we were going to liberate the people of Iraq and protect Americans. That war is now referred to as a blunder but it was a crime just like this War on Iran is now. /1
before bluemaga wakes up, I need you all to understand that attacking Iran is a bipartisan project. it's not simply "trump is insane"
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
addison raetheon @ITARviolation also, very funny when people assume defense contractors aren't on their side. I'm also a leftist babe I just am a leftist that believes that America is better for the world than all current alternatives. ruby @rossirrari you're NOT a leftist LMAO. addison raetheon @ITARviolation it's very easy to be a leftist and a defense contractor. once you graduate high school you may come to understand that.
they are inventing new leftists you wouldn't believe
#OtD 27 Feb 1973 armed Native American activists occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in protest at corruption and US treaty breaches with Native Americans. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9898...
