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The real energy use of agentic AI - by Zeke Hausfather

theclimatebrink.com

The analysis has calculated heavy agentic AI usage by an individual to a little more than the energy usage of an electric clothes dryer for a year. Not inconsequential for sure... and that doesn't consider water, other pollution, noise, etc.

The eye-opening chart, though, was the annual numbers for an average US home in terms of electricity usage AND 11,500 miles of a gas car. Just huge. The lack of federal attention to convert the grid to renewables and reduction of incentives to buy EVs during this shit administration is going to have a massive long-term impact.

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IAN SWEET is reclaiming her storied identity - Interview | The Line of Best Fit

thelineofbestfit.com

“ Subconsciously, I've used IAN SWEET as a vessel for things I'm not ready to process as Jilian, and I use the songwriting and performance to organize my thoughts into the chaotic things, the messy things, and the things I'm not quite ready to touch or look at closer. When I play live, it all becomes very real.”

Sounds like quite the process to get to the new album. Glad she's back to creating!

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Jacob King at Lake Rats Dispatch

Lake Rats Dispatch pop-up #2 featured Jake King performing his lo-fi magic.

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Bandcamp Friday digital purchases:

  • Hum of Heart by Converge
  • Ovlov discography (Buds, Am, Tru)
  • For Love of Grace & the Hereafter by Iceage
  • Floral Green by Title Fight

What did you get?

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an old pug sleeping on a chair

This old man is something.

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Lay Low" by Fiddlehead →

What's your favorite song about change?

This hits home right now. All three kids going off to college this month. My dad in the cancer hospital for a stem cell transplant to try to beat MDS. Feeling old.

Watch your kids grow - see them leave home In a breeze without ease, feel your throat choke Watch your friends go - see your hair grow Black to grey in a day and see yourself old Its too much for me I gotta lay low

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🎶 Crucial Track for today: "Loser" by Tame Impala →

Saw the new Spider-Man with the kids. Well, they are young adults now, but it’s been a thing for us since they were little, starting with Milo when he was 9 or 10. We’ve seen every Tom Holland Spider-Man movie in the theaters as well as all of the Spider-verse movies. So glad we were able to again, it made my day.

And yeah the movie was so good too!