Hope 🪷
* Scots Jew hoping to find some community & safe haven
* chronically ill, often bed bound, limits to how much stress can subject myself to, which complicates most attempts to socialise incl online
* niche joy is Thai 🇹🇭 films & telly; writing a lakorn🤯
- Reposted by Hope 🪷"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the rayne, and the wynde, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir.
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Is there any recent survey data about what British people do for their hobbies? I have a secret personal theory that one of the reasons we're so confused about ourselves as a country is that the diversity of hobbies available to people has withered over decades due to lack of time, space, resources
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Headlines and push notifications are much more important to public understanding of the news in 2025 than the body text of the article and there's no accountability whatsoever or even transparency about who in the organization has the authority to make these decisions.
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Another addition to the 'generative AI energy use is small when you compare it to something bigger so what's the problem' series, this most recently from Hannah Ritchie's substack. This reply from @sashamtl.bsky.social is informative archive.ph/wip/lNoKX www.linkedin.com/posts/sashal...
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Putting aside the fact that the basic numbers are wrong, I think the *COMPARISON* is wrong too, because people are using ChatGPT as a replacement for ultra-efficient alternatives (eg - calculators). Per-use 'efficiency' wildly downplays the societal systemic effects here bsky.app/profile/keta...
- Used @hf.co's new tool to multiply 2 five digit numbers Chatbot: wrong answer, 0.3 watthours Calc: right answer, 0.00000011 watthours (2.5 million times less energy) New post - on how big tech is trying to recreate the plastics crisis in the world of software www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo...
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Comparing something small to something big and saying “so it doesn’t matter” is classic climate deny/delay tactics, so it’s unsurprising to see the same being used to defend AI.
- Another addition to the 'generative AI energy use is small when you compare it to something bigger so what's the problem' series, this most recently from Hannah Ritchie's substack. This reply from @sashamtl.bsky.social is informative archive.ph/wip/lNoKX www.linkedin.com/posts/sashal...
- Reposted by Hope 🪷#ReliefWednesday - A superb polychrome relief showing two Emperors embracing. From Nicomedia: ca. Late 3rd Century AD. Perhaps representing an 'adventus' and a meeting of Diocletian and Maximian. #Art (1/2) Image: Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Museum
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Again for those in the back: 👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential” Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Hope 🪷One of the important overlooked crimes of Trump and MAGA is the abandonment of Ukraine. It’s rare for conflicts to have such a clear aggressor and victim; it’s crystal clear. The US should support Ukraine until they win. This is an American shame marked in the history books, for eternity
- "We are not ending a war — we are indulging a war criminal. And the longer we pretend this is a conflict to be negotiated, rather than a criminal aggression to be terminated, the more respect — and security — we will lose." kyivindependent.com/a-minerals-d...
- Reposted by Hope 🪷Too much Jewish-centered discourse right now continues to be (understandably) mired in horror. So just to say that the religious school kids outside my office are running around playing "Shimon omer" (Simon says), delighting in community, and having a ball. There is so much Jewish joy, even now.
