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Last Notes npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern • Billionaires belch and fart a million times more CO2 than normal people npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Modern AI is advertising. It is born out of the great advertising minds in Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Advertising has always been fake news. Advertising has always been about lying and targeting vulnerable, poorer people, and/or the vulnerabilities in all of us. Advertising is constantly probing for our weaknesses. As one marketer boasted to me: “The best marketing is when I make you buy something and you don’t even know why.” npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern 95% of the world’s land could become degraded by 2050. The UN says that 40% is already degraded. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Employee sparks upset with photo of 'perfectly good' electronics being thrown away: 'This place just trashes it all' npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Wired asked AI Perplexity to summarize a test webpage that contained the sentence, "I am a reporter with Wired." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "You might ask how AI generates something so completely bananas. It’s because AI can’t tell the difference between true and false. Instead, a complex computer program plays probabilistic language guessing games, betting on what words are most likely to follow other words. If an AI program hasn’t been trained on a subject — unusual last names, for instance — it can conjure up authoritative-seeming but false verbiage." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Please stop with your innovation, productivity and efficiency. It's killing us. It's killing life. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "It may come as a shock to learn that an exhaustive survey of various studies, published by the journal Patterns, examined the behavior of various types of AI and alarmingly concluded that yes, in fact, AI systems are intentionally deceitful and will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems - Bloomberg npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "White Australia has a short-sighted approach to Country. You are still trying to clean up the mess of Maralinga, Emu Field, Ranger Uranium Mine, and the many closed mines that still scar the landscape across Australia, and leak radioactive tailings. You have forced poison onto the lands of Traditional Owners, and now are proposing to create poisons that would last 100,000s of years. We have learnt that white Australia cannot be trusted with nuclear power.” npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Nvidia, the leader of the AI-chip revolution and a Wall Street darling, has over the past three years alone shipped some 5 million high-power AI chips. To put this in perspective, every such AI chip uses roughly as much electricity each year as do three electric vehicles." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Net Zero always was a con, always is a con, always will be a con npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern There is no "Green" Transition npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Deep sea mining is ecocide npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern So you've heard about Degrowth. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "The world trashes more copper and cobalt in our electronic waste each year than would likely be supplied by deep-sea mining operations in the central Pacific annually over the next decade." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern McDonald's is killing its experiment with AI drive-thru order handling — at least for now — after social media reports of bizarre mistakes. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Last year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission predicted 4.7% load growth over the next five years, up from 2.6% previously estimated for five-year growth. Data centers “supercharged by the rise of artificial intelligence” will require between 9 and 13 more GW of electricity over the next five years, which does not include data center estimates for MISO or CAISO (California) regional transmission organizations." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "In a groundbreaking investigative journey spanning from the bustling ports of Europe to the impoverished neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana, a team of journalists and photojournalists has unveiled the harrowing reality of the transboundary flow of electronic waste (e-waste)." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern " npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Just last week, we reported on an article in Wired that claims nearly half of all renewable energy is being used to power data centers. It isn’t powering schools or hospitals or disadvantaged neighborhoods. It is being used to make more money for Google, X, Amazon, and Facebook." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "One of the largest data centers in the world (Langfang, China) covers an area of 6.3 million square feet, equivalent to about 110 football fields. This facility, known as the Range International Information Hub, consumes more power than a small city, highlighting the significant energy demands of modern data centers." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Current-generation AI models like ChatGPT now use over 500,000 kWh per day to operate—compared to 29 kWh for the average U.S. household. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted outright that he's not entirely sure his tech empire's latest "Apple Intelligence" won't come up with lies and confidently distort the truth, a problematic and likely intrinsic tendency that has plagued pretty much all AI chatbots released to date." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern • Billionaires are responsible for a million times more CO2 than normal person npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "In 2018, one of Spain’s top-ranked universities, which trains its graduates for careers in everything from neuroscience and biomedicine to government and economics, launched a first-of-its-kind master’s program in a more nascent and explicitly nontraditional field: a degree in degrowth." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "A company that adopts generative AI for something where they used to use more traditional optimization methods is probably using 10 to 20 times more carbon to do that, so if improvements aren't made, you're talking doubling or more in a five-year period in terms of the carbon footprint of the information technology that we do." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "For reference, the amount of compute used in frontier AI models has been increasing ~4x a year, and GPT-4 cost over $100 million to train. Major AI lab CEOs are predicting $1 billion and even $10 billion training runs. Only a select number of closed-source model providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.) will be able to underwrite these ever-increasing costs." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Electric vehicles are often presented as a key technology for drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thus helping curb climate change. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "The world’s data centres are using ever more electricity. In 2022, they gobbled up 460 terawatt hours of electricity, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects this to double in just four years. Data centres could be using a total of 1,000 terawatts hours annually by 2026. “This demand is roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Japan,” says the IEA. Japan has a population of 125 million people." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern ""It has happened," wrote developer Arian van Putten in a social media post over the weekend. "The number one Google result was an official Pulumi documentation page that was clearly written by an LLM (it had a disclaimer that it was) and hallucinated an AWS feature that didn't exist. This is the beginning of the end."" npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Western Australia said Tuesday it is axing a five-week-old law to protect Indigenous sites, introduced after Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelter in the state, reports AFP. The decision to repeal the legislation was condemned by Indigenous groups, who complained of insufficient consultation and said their needs were being ignored." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Data centers "consumed 17 gigawatts of electricity in 2022, or about 4 percent of total U.S. consumption. This is projected to double to 35 gigawatts by 2030." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1pue…dpuv npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern The State and Big Tech, working hand-in-hand, to suppress citizen rights. Big Tech knows everything about us. We know nothing about them. Google’s bullyboy, arrogant, untouchable, imperious tactics were not over. In 2024, David Wren writing for The Post and Courier, warned that in Dorchester County, USA, the amount of public water Google was demanding “to cool computer server farms and other equipment it plans to build is a closely guarded "trade secret." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce pubic water was a “trade secret”. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "A single data center also uses several million gallons of water per year, with hyperscale data centers consuming as many as 200 million gallons in a year alone. In one instance, a hyperscale company wanted as much as 1.46 billion gallons of water a year for a new data center in Red Oak, Texas - a town roughly 20 miles south of Dallas." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Some 2 billion tyres are made a year. 78% of microplastics in the ocean come from tyres. Car tyres are made from around 24% synthetic rubber. This “chemical cocktail” of 400 chemicals includes heavy metals like copper, lead and zinc. A reduction of tyre wear particles is as important as reducing exhaust emissions. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern More Big Tech on corporate welfare. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Bangalore—India’s Silicon Valley and Data Center Hub—is enduring its worst drought in 30-40 years. 20 other major Indian cities are also facing water crises. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern The "green" tech scam must be exposed npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern During the greatest environmental crisis humanity has ever faced, toxic mining waste causing, water guzzling, electricity sucking, e-waste producing data center growth is totally insane. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern The market for smart appliances depends on lots of dumb customers. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern AI gave “people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded.” AI rejects marginalised groups, because they don’t play the “right” sports. One person, rejected by AI, changed their birthdate to be younger. AI then selected them. These are not flaws of AI. They are features. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern “I prep for survival,” said Sam Altman, who thinks that AI will destroy the world but in the meantime he and his friends will make a lot of money from it. “I try not to think about it too much, but I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.” npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Wow, you Europeans really do filthy up your environment," an Indian recently said to me. "All the plastic you use to keep things "clean" and "fresh". And you don't care. You only care about your convenience and lecturing the rest of the world about how they should do things." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1jlj…skl3 npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Apple Vision Pro repairs could set you back as much as $2,399 npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Cyclists have 84% lower CO2 emissions from daily travel than non-cyclists. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Apple is ecocide npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Irish Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced the banning of the sale of nicotine inhaling products such as e-cigarettes to children. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics and hangs as an invisible mist wherever cars are driven. A traditional petrol / diesel car's four tires will pollute 1 trillion toxic nano particles for every kilometer driven. There are about 1.4 billion cars in the world. Let’s assume they drive and average 20,000 km per year. That means that every year some 28 septillion of these toxic particles pollute air, soil and water. That’s 28,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern E-bikes have the capability to reduce car CO2 emissions by 24.4 million tonnes a year in England. Their CO2 reduction capability is greatest in rural areas. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X21003401?via%3Dihub npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern “All signs indicate that a city full of e-bikes would be safer, healthier, cleaner, and less congested than one dominated by cars.” npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Electric bikes are displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern “One of nature’s true spectacles” – and ad campaign showing Toyota SUVS destroying rivers and land. These people get a thrill out of destroying the environment. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern $50 billion is more than the yearly GDP of half of the countries in the world. It’s what Microsoft is planning to spend per year building data centers. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Because there is an explosion in data, we are seeing an explosion in data center building. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Are we going to save cat videos or the cats? npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern In 1900, if you mined one ton of copper, you caused about 25 tons of waste. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern We have a global freshwater crisis and it going to get much, much worse npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Lenovo says that by 2025, 80% of its devices will be repairable npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Uruguay's devastating drought was at its peak when President Luis Lacalle Pou took an unexpected question from a young student during a visit to a primary school in the capital: "Why is the water so salty?" npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Bitcoin is a grift npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern If you have access to cheap fresh water, deserts are a great place for data centers because they are so dry—and computers hate moisture and high humidity. That’s why there are so many data centers in Arizona “It’s almost like the goldrush. All these companies are clustering to get this cheap water. But it’s doomed.” npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Humanity has a decision to make. We stand today at the brink of a new age, at a fork in the road of our own survival. We can become another extinct species, a blink in time in the natural history of the earth, or we can recognize that water is so vital to our continued existence that we must find a new way to live with it, manage it, and protect it." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1u2h…z4d7 only at beginning of its potential harm. We don’t need AI to figure out what to do. We need wisdom. We need degrowth. We will either manage degrowth or Nature will degrow us. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1u2h…z4d7 why don’t we do both? npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern AI demands more and more and more water npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Central region of Castilla La Mancha, which produces a quarter of all Spanish grain, is expected to lose 80 per cent to 90 per cent of 2023’s harvest, and water restrictions loom large." npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Data centers love to talk about how they achieved so many improvements in energy efficiency in the last 10 years. But how exactly did they achieve much of these gains? npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Keep digital devices for as long as possible npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1yln…e2vv Thanks for the link. I hadn't actually. Will check out. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern @npub1yln…e2vv It's a critical question. I always bought the best, fastest, most powerful, because I could afford it and I assumed it was what I needed.But I only needed a fraction of that tech. We have been so oversold by the tech industry. And we have data pushers trying to addict use to using the maximum quantity of data possible. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern "Education systems struggle to adapt to the fast pace of change in technology. The turnover of education technology products is three years on average, but curriculum reform takes place every ten years. This means countries cannot expect to react to every new device on the market. They must map out and prioritize the digital skills they want to teach learners and teachers that will stand the test of time. " npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern We have defined the wrong problem. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Google has proven to be particularly thirsty in this regard, not to mention secretive. npub1tev3swuf9vzq9sup6ttkwgcae9d7fw05ca0tn36fvw56sdjx7y3s3ts6tq Gerry McGovern Globally, data centers are forecast to consume 450m gallons of water daily by 2030, up from ~205m in 2016, according to data reviewed by Bloomberg.
