woah! 2 major firms developing a product mired in a value inflation bubble, a hardware limitation problem, declining returns on exponentially large data sets, an energy & water consumption crisis, & searching for orders of magnitude more capital promise things are abt to change!

The queer community today (and everyday)

The Canadian military built its own internet. My new journal article explores how its design was shaped by Canada’s pursuit of national identity amid fears of US influence & rising demands for self-determination within Indigenous & Québécois nations 🧵
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Are you happy now, Humans?
All of your picture taking contraptions stole the Moon's soul.

Thrilling news!!!

CMOS 18th will drop the requirement to include the city of publication in citations.

#ACES2024 #amediting #cmos

I won’t be able to present at #ISA2024 because my US visa appt is in 2026. How many academics from the global south are forced to wait, prevented from accessing these spaces? Immobility helps define those who speak their voices in academia and those whose voices are spoken for.

Reading a set of brilliant student essays about colonial legacies shaping contemporary social and environmental dynamics for the Politics of Environment and Development course I teach with Tanya Matthan

Some texts from the reading list that clearly resonated with our students:

adored this!!!!

If anyone needs a reminder of how solar eclipses work and the unbearable heaviness of being, the most beautiful is easily the opening scene of Werkmeister Harmonies where Valuska demonstrates to a group of drunkards at closing time in a small village bar. youtube.com/watch?v=_d5X2t…

TT job at Trent for any arts/science crossover people! I'm not on the committee, but am in the hiring department and am happy to answer questions.

trentu.ca/humanresources…

This project is a great gloss on the AI supply/value chains. This looks very helpful as a teaching aid! cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Having trouble thinking about today's gaza war crime because I'm still struggling with understanding yesterday's gaza war crime

In addition to this great piece in elite capture & fossil fuel value chains, I keep coming back to the way national forests are positioned as climate bargaining chips (as license to emit). Canada's right did this for decades; it's surreal to see the tactic moving south.

Fellow Canadian train enjoyers! There is a Unifor campaign pushing for increased federal investment in the rails. Please sign! nwmd.io/s/twitter/ZhA9…

Fluffy
Maud Lewis
c. 1964

Spoke to a Microsoft engineer on the GPT-6 training cluster project. He kvetched about the pain they're having provisioning infiniband-class links between GPUs in different regions.

Me: 'why not just colocate the cluster in one region?'
Him: 'Oh yeah we tried that first. We…

Main takeaway from the Kate Middleton episode:

Weaving conspiracy theories is fun and entertaining. It appeals to folks' creative desire to make meaning of the world. Mis/disinformation doesn't function through passive reception but through active engagement and (often) play.

I'm doing ecocriticism (telling a plant it's ugly)

Hot online conference CFP: “Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context”

Abstracts due on Earth Day 🌎 uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the…