Jonathan Eyler-Werve
Trying to make the Internet a nice place for humans. Chicago. I post mostly art, art process, some trash. Reskeets mean you fucking crushed it.
Work persona: http://eylerwerve.com
- did we invent metrosexual or was metrosexual thrust upon us when some straight guys realized having a nice haircut and cute pants was okay
- @dieworkwear.bsky.social did a story on masculine archetypes and it sort of explained my 20s to me
- JUST IN: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan moves to dismiss federal criminal case against her for allegedly helping immigrant hide from ICE. Her lawyers say she's protected by official acts & judicial immunity and 10th Amendment. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- I'm no lawyer but is arresting judges who have done nothing wrong a crime or just our legal system at work? because I have notes.
- Its gonna be "official acts" all the way down
- social media really seems to be losing steam. perhaps the future of shitposting is ham radio
- The business model that means they can print money yes. I believe we are in a posters' renaissance
- The so called Dark Ages are when we invented all the good stuff. Feminism, tulips, horny lucifer sculptures.
- Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...
- Look at the reference - Grok is citing here some Tweets about Elon's ties to South Africa posted by this account on X less than 5 hours before. (It is hallucinating the timestamp). Grok is regurgitating Tweets in near-real-time - a terrible feature for fueling the spread of viral disinformation.
- Yeah, regardless of content, saying "this shithead thing that happened was because of this specific guy" on one tweets worth of sourcing is deeply unwise.
- Not everyone needs therapy. Sometimes they just need a good ass-kicking.
- What's the Medicare code for smacking someone with the DSM-5
- I’ll actually take this a step further: I think you’re inadvertently doing a form of propaganda for AI companies by pretending the main problem with it is resource usage. That’s a technical problem that they probably will eventually solve. They will not solve the societal problems they are creating
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View full threadThe compute costs of genai are genuinely in a different class of thing though. In dollar terms a server call for a standard web app costs hundredths of a penny. At higher end. A single genai output can be twenty bucks. Might be worth it. But it's very heavy.
- Put another way, we're projecting global electrical usage on data centers goes from ~2% now to 10% to 20% in 2030. That's going to break stuff. NYT estimate, assumes existing plans get built (dubious)
- the 90s were a wild time. if i told you how many magazines there were you wouldnt even believe me
- Sometimes I tell kids there we had a hundred Internet Service Providers to choose from and they absolutely do not believe me. (The kids in this story are like 35)
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
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View full threadwhat gags me is all the people pissed about this piece as if it didn’t get edited by 3 other editors and a fact checker, and wasn’t based on both vetted reporting and sourcing from an expert. you think I just came up with this by myself?
- Hey I'm sorta in the field and I think this is solid reporting. bsky.app/profile/jona...
- I really don’t find these arguments persuasive. Take this, for example, from one of the sources: this is another way of saying ‘as much water as it takes for the beef that two people consume annually’. That’s a relatively trivial amount!
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
- Wanted to check before posting but this number is not typical and possibly just wrong. Large water cooled data centers are pulling 300,000 gallons every day. The GPT-3 training run (a large but one time chore) is a weird goalpost to measure AI impact. Also: electricity is a more useful metric
- Ok, onto the source screenshotted. In full the Teen Vogue piece is pretty great overall. notes localized and carbon impact of fossil fuel plants (biggest deal), gets the core tech well enough, and frames up the cost benefit tradeoff as ongoing but worth thought. Five stars.
