so what if im doomed! so what! i can still have fun!
Quick Fanart for my most recent favourite cartoon show: Steven Universe, if you haven’t seen it, you should. It is created by the very talented Rebecca Sugar and it has so many different amazing things that will make you have tons of happy emotional moments and loads of fun.
Anyways, back to work after enjoying a bit of fun <3
Tuesday: Shopping
They got the same dress!
Personal connverse week for an anonymous Ko-fi tipper! (That's a simple-looking dress but I like it very much. :3 )
Prompts, ideas, and polaroid border effect also by anon.
Saturday: Surprise
It's like those rings on a necklace but with glow rings!
It's not a proposal, just wanna give her something he thought she'd love.
Personal connverse week for an anonymous Ko-fi tipper! Prompts, details, and polaroid border effect also by anon.
i wish you guys lived inside my head the fics in here go crazy
So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.
Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.
And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.
And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.
I often think issues like this are a result of “The Cloud,” and by that I mean the propagation of this notion that data and the internet exist out in the ether somewhere and not like...on someone else’s hard drives which are housed in hundreds and thousands of huge warehouses which require climate control.
Most humans already have a LOT of magical thinking about computers, and I really wish we spent more time teaching not just basic computing skills (how to navigate an interface), but basic INFRASTRUCTURE knowledge. When you think of it as chatting with Jeff Bezos’s huge garage full of nerd hardware, it’s easier to make the logical leap to say “hey i wonder what kind of resources it takes to keep all these hard drives from overheating...?”
We need to systematically think of internet usage, data centers and computer processing as things that emit CO2, use water and are dependent on dirty mineral mining for chips and batteries. Higher resolution streaming? More cloud storage? More AI? That all means more CO2 emission, more water consumption and more mining. This kind of ‘progress’ means the world burns faster.
In the coming years we might see a rising awareness of this at the individual level (”don’t leave your music streaming when you leave the house” etc) and while that’s not entirely useless, it’s important to remember that the problem is systematic. Tech companies are deliberately obscuring the pollution of their products from us, driving our ecosystems towards mass extinction for a profit in the same way other industries are.
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
She’s just a bit homesick