Does anyone know of research on the resource consumption of algorithmic social media in comparison to LLMs?

Imagine you spend 7 years writing a book and now it’s out! You’re invited onto a podcast hosted by a “master of the art of conversation”. Wow! It’s going well, then halfway through, for no apparent reason, they start reading verbatim from an LLM — a summary of your work, questions about you, etc…

Through a Frame / Pollen Drop is out now... musings on leaving and returning, on decade-long cycles of life, on stepping too far, and on gradually learning one’s way. lnkfi.re/through-a-fr...

On Friday May 8, I'll be releasing "Through a Frame / Pollen Drop", my first new music in 6 years. Around the release, I'll be performing Through a Frame, Pollen Drop, and a couple other instrumental guitar pieces at some of Durham/Hillsborough's natural/artificial areas.

One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!

A form which calculates an individual’s “income tax body count”, or the total number of conflict-related deaths they have caused through their income tax contributions to the U.S. government. income-tax-body-count.lav.io

made a weird device to draw graffiti on wifi networks in public

$50m in battery storage lost here bc we mentioned resilience for disadvantaged communities 👊🏼

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

New live session / tiny desk submission by @emmageiger.bsky.social & co 🥀🥺 youtu.be/qW-FJOjr_lU

On Time and Water coming to SXSW in TEXAS: schedule.sxsw.com/2026/films/2...

just a new idea

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icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles

Really fun bit of citizen science around sourdough! 🥖 brainbaking.com/post/2025/04...

Our paper documenting the environmental impacts of creating OLMo language models is the most honest and comprehensive characterization I know of, including training, development (!) and inference costs. If you're at ICLR chat with @jacobcares.bsky.social & @clarana.bsky.social Sat morning 10-12:30!

@brooksemanuel.bsky.social quietly resisting

Unrest, directed by Cyril Schäublin, is one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. In a time of corporate government takeover, map re-naming, and power being siphoned from the people, it reminds me that we’re not the first. We are embedded in a lineage. youtu.be/52iKhD31gJc

Wondering how many more nazi salutes, how many more changes to platform policy to allow for harassment of marginalized folks, how many more hitherto unthinkable horrors will need to happen before my otherwise ultra lefty, arty, compassionate, community oriented friends join me on Mastodon.

made this chrome extension that gives you a random jumpscare on sites you're trying to avoid. tabboo.xyz

Desperately looking for more music like Yo La Tengo (@actualylt.bsky.social) - "Leaving Home" from the Old Joy soundtrack. The !*&%ify algorithm is swinging and missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapp...

“More seals are breeding on the east coast because offshore windfarms may have provided a new footing there for underwater vegetation, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and other marine life, creating a fish nursery that the seals are feeding on” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For my musician friends who don’t want their music stolen for genAI www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

I made a temperature controller for my partner for Xmas so she can keep her natural dyeing pots at a constant simmer without needing to tend to the stove / without risking boiling over. Never been more excited to watch a pot simmer!

In case you haven’t heard about or noticed this: “Spotify [is] filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians… in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.”

I'm proud to be leaving a humble contribution to UPenn's artificial-intelligence-class.org, a new homework I developed on logical inference and knowledge-based agents. It is built upon an original game by @laramartin.net in which R2-D2 is trying to save Luke... resonance.tools/2024/12/wamp...

The small town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing one of the country's largest electric utilities, Duke Energy, over climate change -- here's my story for @npr.org www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

Chaotic good: Last night at a restaurant I ordered grilled bok choy. When the waitress brought the plate, she said "here is your grilled okra". The "grilled okra" was delicious but was actually grilled cucumber, and grilled cucumber wasn't even on the menu!

I wrote more about Unimax at resonance.tools/2024/11/unim... "It makes sense that chess simulators were first developed through an adversarial lens. But I started to think… this is also the paradigm through which my students are learning to write software; learning what AI and computation is for."

Unlearn adversarial paradigms of computation at unimax.run.

buying a domain before writing any code

Do you or someone you know receive 24-hour care (specifically with one caregiver for each 24-hr shift)? A while back I made poodlescheduler.com for my friend who I used to provide care for. He would spend hours every month scheduling his team of caregivers by hand. #disability

While changing our SoMe habits, opting for platform-agnostic alternatives, let’s also re-think our music sharing habits, people! Sharing a Spotify/Apple Music/any platform link a) is not inclusive and b) reinforces network effects. Sharing the artist’s website or link aggregator is more courteous.

I joined Mastodon two weeks ago. Wasn't sure about joining bsky until I saw that @andrimagnason.bsky.social is here ⏳🌊 emergencemagazine.org/interview/on...