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Adrienne Rich, “Three Conversations”

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NEW: In California, data center builders are erecting DIESEL generators to backstop AI computing. Using a shortcut in regulations, the approved data centers will emit the same GHG as 284,390 cars, including diesel and grid-based electricity emissions. capitalandmain.com/as-californi...

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The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty decades of faith to keep Were vexed to nightmare by a fucking moron.

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How far back in time can you go to find the earliest climate science related warning re what we now call GHG emissions & their effect on climate change? It turns out, it's a very long time. The earliest I know of relates to the work of Eunice Newton Foote. 🧪🔌💡 www.climate.gov/news-feature... +...

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The best firefighting song I know.

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I can't stop thinking about the fact that the first diary entry in Parable is July 19, 2024, the day before Biden announced he was not running.

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As someone who doesn't do research on fire, but has to talk about--more and more--in courses on environmental science and environmental change, the insight available from people in these starter packs is invaluable: bsky.app/starter-pack... and bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Solvet saeclum in favilla.

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This diagram (originally from work by Meade and Syvitski iirc) raises interesting issues. Additional soil eroded off cornbelt fields doesn't come close to compensating for sediment from Northern Plains badlands now trapped by big dams in the Dakotas. At least in part, that's because eroded...

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Every Department Do This.

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This is a Ponzi scheme. Fight the slop at every level. We all can make a difference! I threw a fit at our last dept meeting and shamed everyone there. Dept policy is now NO AI unless students are studying AI usage as part of their dissertations. If everyone did this, we can fight it.

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Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!

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Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next.

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Eight Stages of White Settler Colonial Denial

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i only use chatgpt to rewrite my emails I don’t know man maybe you shouldn’t dry out a well so you can feel less insecure about responding ‘sounds good’ to your boss

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Solstice in Madison. There was a yeti.

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Generative AI is a) dependent on organized criminal activity; b) fatally unreliable in its accuracy; c) associated with massive resource costs, including GHGs; d) a constant temptation to pass off the work of someone else’s computer as your own. It’s bad. Don’t use it.

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Been seeing some prominent folks, including mutuals(!!!), posting Gen AI “art” of Trump in various states of humiliation. I understand the impulse, but this is abetting theft of labor. Gen AI is founded on organized crime by the tech industry. Please, just don’t do it. It’s wrong.

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The one thing that gives me hope about LLMs, is remembering how many businesses and organizations had big plans for blockchains just a few years ago.

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This is a subtweet of the entire discipline of translation as a literary, artistic, and inherently productive human endeavor.

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I can imagine moral and ethical use cases for AI, but any use of it to represent your own knowledge is by definition not your own work. This is so obviously correct that it’s hard to conceive that some faculty actually encourage its use in student writing and exams.

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Today is Beethoven's baptism day, which means yesterday might have been his birthday, so I'm going to recreate the Beethoven birthday thread here Feel free to mute this post if you don't care to see it all again For the rest of us, let's celebrate my favorite musical weirdo

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When you switch from standard view to satellite view

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“We have attempted to respond to the concerns of Reviewer 2, who found the original draft repetitive and sparsely annotated.” Or, why academic writing is generally no fun to read.

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This is the plot to Gettin’ Square 2.

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“We have attempted to respond to the concerns of Reviewer 2, who found the original draft repetitive and sparsely annotated.” Or, why academic writing is generally no fun to read.

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To anyone interested, here is my book, Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice, University of California Press. ☀️🔌💡 drive.google.com/file/d/1MpQ3...

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Fascinating window into how Australia marketed itself to Northern European and American immigration in the 1960s. Pre-mineral boom, it’s all about showing they have fridges, pipe-smoking dads and suburban ennui in Brisbane, just like anywhere else. And everyone is white.

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"A new analysis skewers the assumption that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether in the atmosphere, embedded in wood or pumped underground. Turns out that's a vast oversimplification & could render net-zero efforts meaningless" - from @eroston.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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when the people you told to circle back after the long holiday weekend start circling back:

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Following the Syrian coup in real time on Bluesky. This place has it all now.

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The burnout and administrivia that dominates the life of faculty these days can be measured by the length of this complete syllabus from my mother’s class in 1988. Might have taken her five minutes to write.

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Wetland language and politics should not mix. Please share a photo of your favorite wetland scene, moss, or other aquatic plant to show everyone that “draining the swamp” is a hard no. Instead we all need to get mired together. Healthy wetlands healthy society. Please pass it on.

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A four-way tie in the NFC West would be the most Seahawks outcome possible. The apotheosis of their journey, really.

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I'm reposting this, because we have extended the application deadline. Review of applications will now begin on January 15. The UW-Madison Department of Geography is HIRING a people-environment scholar in the area of the green energy transition!

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